Filming location?


Anyone know where this was filmed?

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The Alexandra Road Estate in Camden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Road_Estate

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There's even a 40-minute documentary, made by the residents in 2010:

One Below the Queen:
Rowley Way Speaks for Itself


Between November 2009 and April 2010 a group of residents living on the Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate (often know as Rowley Way) in NW London worked with the arts and education charity digital:works to make a documentary film about their estate. The incredible Grade II* listed building features frequently in TV dramas and architecture journals and the intention of the film was to give residents themselves the opportunity to explore the ideas behind the estate and how it works. They met and interviewed the architect Neave Brown to discuss his ideas, hopes and intentions when he designed the estate and also to get a sense of the culture and politics of the time it was designed and built. They also met and interviewed landscape architect Janet Jack and chief engineer Max Fordham. After this they interviewed numerous fellow residents to examine people's actual experience living on the estate. (...)
http://www.rowleyway.org.uk/

The docu is available to watch for free on the website.

It seems that there is a pretty active community there (http://alexandraandainsworth.org/), working to improve their quarter (collecting funds to revive the park, bringing the Tenant's Hall back into use). I think they got a bit fed up being portrayed as a crime ridden hell-hole on TV (and even here on IMDb, see Trivia for this film).

I think I am going to write a bit in the FAQs about it, but I can't access the edit function right now... (off to make a bug report).

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