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Stone Hammer House of Horror Independent fi lm makers Olympic Way, Wembley, Coronation Road, Royal, Central Hospital, 1968 1969 November 2005 October 2003 , October 2004 Warner Bros 2001 Starring: Christopher Lee, Starring: , Sixty Six is a coming of age of story One of the iconic scenes from Suspense thriller starring Clive Starring: , Rupert Grint, Emma Charles Gray, Sarah Lawson, , , which is set against the backdrop the fi lm was fi lmed in Brent, on Owen and Jennifer Anniston Watson, , Maggie Smith, , Paul Eddington, Russell Waters , Michael of the 1966 World cup. To make Coronation Road in Park Royal. The was set in Chicago and fi lmed in , Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffi ths, Fiona Redgrave, . the scenes as authentic as possible location was chosen as the roads are . The ACAD Centre is used Location: The Grim’s Dyke Shaw, , , David Bradley came to the real quiet and industrial making it perfect at weekends for fi lming and during Hotel has provided the Location: RAF Bentley Priory, location and fi lmed directly outside the for fi lming (particularly when Zombies the week is a functioning operating Location: The Fourth Form Room dates back to 1615 backdrop for three Hammer Stanmore, which was the nerve new world-class are involved!). Further attractions in theatre. Only a stones throw away and is the original classroom used by the fi rst pupils House of Horror fi lms including centre for the Battle of Britain on Olympic Way. Wembley Stadium the Park Royal area is the legendary is the Grand Union Canal with at Harrow School. It was used as the scene of magic Christopher Lee’s favourite fi lm during World War II and is still a tours will be available from 2007. bikers haunt Ace Café which is delightful canal boats and walks. lessons in Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone. “The Devil Rides Out” working RAF base today. HARROW HARROW BRENT

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Love Actually The Young Ones A4140 Mowbray Road, Brondesbury 409 UK (1961) Park, September 2004 A410 Starring: Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray, Richard Love Actually, O’Sullivan & Melvyn Hayes set and fi lmed in London, came The song “The Young Ones” was fi lmed from the big double gates to Brent and chose Brondesbury to the children’s area round the far side of Lido. When it Park as one of their locations. Other local attractions include the

HILLINGDON was all over Cliff got mobbed by all the kids around at the time. green fl ag awarded Roundwood Park and the beautiful Welsh Harp A409 reservoir with sailing clubs. A Clockwork Orange BRENT

1971 Warner Brothers Starring: Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin, David Prowse

Stanley Kubrik’s celebrated fi lm A Clockwork Orange includes a number of scenes shot A409 Sliding Doors on the newly-constructed - and at that time unlandscaped - Campus of Brunel University. More recently the campus has been used for numerous episodes Two romantic comedies were of Inspector Morse, ‘Bollywood’ feature fi lm Indian Baboo and thrillers starring Peter shot in 1998 - Sliding Doors Davison (The Last Detective) and John Hannah (Amnesia). and Martha Meet Frank, A404 Daniel and Laurence. True Blue, tells the true story of the 1986 -Cambridge boat race, when it changed Filmed in Hayes– the early football scenes... from a gentleman’s race with Jess and her friends to one where winning was everything. A4090 A404 Location:

Chocolat (2001) HAMMERSMITH & Bridge A4127 Starring: Juliette Binoche, , , Johnny

HILLINGDON Depp. Filmed in Barra Hall itself, scenes from the fi lm ‘Chocolat A4180 Scoop A404 2006 Starring: ; and A40 Calendar Girls “a light comedy about sex, love, suspense and murder”. Harbour Pictures 2003 Location: Shepherds Bush Empire, Shepherds Starring: Helen Mirren and . Bush Green W12 8TT. Since 1903, the Shepherd’s Location: Ramada Jarvis Hotel Common Bush Empire has been a prominent landmark on W5 used to double as interior of hotel in Wetherby 406 London’s entertainment scene. The venue still where the ladies hold a press conference about retains its original, opulent design and grandeur

EALING the success of the calendar. of its early years. The West London venue is a favourite haunt for artists, music industry executives, the media and music-lovers alike. www.shepherds-bush-empire.co.uk

Bend it Like Beckham HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM

Road Movie 2002 6 Starring: , Keira Knightly and . The Life and Death A40 Location: Broadway used as general of Peter Sellars background setting and the sari shopping for A A4020 EALING Parminder’s sisters’ wedding dress scene. Home Box Offi ce - 2004 A406 A4020 Starring: , Sharlize Theron and Emily The Importance of Being Earnest Watson. Location: Fragile Films 2002 Hospital, Ravenscourt Park, Starring: Rupert Everett, , and Judy Dench A4 Hammersmith W6. The exterior Location: Museum and Art Gallery, Ealing Green and interior were used as the

EALING hospital where Peter Sellars W5 used as the country home of Earnest (Rupert Everett). A4 drives Britt Ekland to give birth to their child. HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM About A Boy Working Title 2002 Starring: and Rachel Weisz. Jada Productions - 2005 Location: Acton Town Hall, W3 used as venue for Starring: Scarlett school music performance at end of fi lm, featuring Johansson, Jonathan Rhys EALING Hugh Grant on guitar stealing the show. Meyers and . Location: The Queens Love Actually Club, Palliser Road W14 9EQ, used as the club where Jonathan Rhys Working Title 2003 Meyers works as club pro.

Starring: , Hugh Grant,, Emma HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM Thompson. Location: Colin Firth visits an artist’s house in Blenheim Road W4 then hails a cab on The Calendar Girls Avenue W4, to keep out of the winter chill, despite EALING the fact it was fi lmed on a balmy July day! Harbour Pictures - 2003 Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walter and Celia Imrie. Location: The Ark, Talgarth Bend it Like Beckham Miss Potter Madness of King George Green Street Vanity Fair Road, Hammersmith, W6. The Calendar Girls are Park Estate, Popes Lane The Butts, TW8 8BQ , Brentford, Middlesex TW8 The Griffi n , 57 Brook Road House & Grounds, Burlington lane invited to appear on an London W3 8LQ. Tel:020 8992 1612 Tel: 020 560 0881 South, Brentford TW8 0NP Chiswick W4 2RP. Tel: 020 8894 0508 The nearest railway station American TV Show. The Ark www..info www.syonpark.co.uk Tel: 020 8560 8555 www.hounslow.info is Brentford and the nearest was used as the sumptuous interiors of the hotel they The nearest underground station is undergoud station is Kew is located in Brentford. The The nearest train station is and Grounds are located stayed in. Acton Town (piccadilly and district (). For further nearest railway stations are Brentford and Brentford and the nearest in Chiswick. The nearest railway station is HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM lines). For further travel information location information go to Syon Lane. The nearest tube station is underground station is South Ealing Chiswick and the nearest underground station go to www.hounslow.info www.streetmap.co.uk and type (). Full travel informaiton (piccadilly line). For further location is (district line). Full travel in the postcode. can be found at www.syonpark.co.uk information go to www.streetmap. information can be found at www.hounslow.info co.uk and type in the postcode. Don’t try crashing a wedding at Mansion like Juliet Re-enact Reece Witherspoon’s stroll in the beautiful gardens and take in the Rene Zellwegger (Miss Potter) and Johnny Depp (Jack the Ripper) Follow in the footsteps of Helen Mirren and , who starred in Stevenson and Keira Knightly in Bend it Like Beckham! Gunnersbury Park enjoyed a pint here during the fi lming of Green beauty of Chiswick House and Grounds. Chiswick House is considered have been seen admiring the architecture in the Butts whilst on the Madness of King George, and visit Syon Park, the ancestral home of the Mansion is a great wedding venue set in a large leafy park between Brentford Street. The Griffi n Pub serves Fullers Beers, which are to be the fi nest surviving example of Palladian architecture in Britain, with location.The Butts is a beautiful Victorian conservation area in . Syon Park’s unique historic buildings and landscaped and Acton. It has a range of attractions and things to do including formal brewed locally in Chiswick. It is one of the famous four superb collections of paintings and furniture. Its surrounding grounds claim Brentford which is a popular destinaiton with tourists and fi lm parkland on the , so close to London and major fi lm studios, is a gardens, green open spaces, lakes, historic buildings, a museum, play and that corner Griffi n Park, home of Brentford FC and the to be the birthplace of the English landscape garden and are thought to be makers. It is located within fi ve minutes of Brentford High Street, favourite location for photoshoots, television and feature fi lming. Other fi lms sports facilities, and a network of tree-lined paths. . the most important historical landscapes in and in . Other HOUNSLOW HOUNSLOW and is very near to the river Thames and Grand Union Canal. HOUNSLOW HOUNSLOW HOUNSLOW and dramas shot at Syon House include Gosford Park and Daniel Deronda. fi lms shot here include Hard Day’s Night and De-lovely. HILLINGDON

HARROW Hammersmith & Fulham

EALING BRENT Things to see and do in West London 1. Visit the

Hammersmith

HOUNSLOW Riviera

& FULHAM & Brent Ealing Hounslow Harrow Relax in Furnivall Gardens HAMMERSMITH HAMMERSMITH near Hammersmith Bridge

1. and Wembley Stadium 1. Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery 1. Explore the River Thames 1. Get out and and enjoy the fi ne view, or see and do in do and see refresh yourself at the many Arena Square, Wembley HA9 0DW , Mattock Lane, W5 5EQ ...at Old and

enjoy a picnic historic riverside pubs with Plus things to to things Plus A visit to Brent would not be complete without a visit to Wembley. Tel: 0208 567 1227 enjoy a beer at one of in Harrow’s rolling balconies and terraces The world famous Wembley Arena has recently undergone a £35 Country home of architect Sir who rebuilt it from the many riverside pubs countryside - an overlooking the water. million refurbishment and continues to host an exciting variety of 1800-1804. including The London area equivalent to Popular waterside pubs concerts and events. Outside a newly built piazza thrills crowds There is an extensive display of Martinware Pottery, and Apprentice at 62 eight Hyde ! in Lower Mall include the with an impressive dancing fountain. concerts, workshops and contemporary art exhibitions take place Church Street, Isleworth, Rutland, the Old Ship, the www.livenation.co.uk/wembley at the museum and gallery. Middlesex, TW7 6BG Dove and the Blue Anchor - Tel: 020 8560 1915 The new Wembley Stadium is the largest covered football all serve both food and drink. or The Town Wharf at stadium in the world with seating for 90,000 and the largest Enjoy the sight of colourful houseboats, plenty of bird life on Swan Street, Isleworth, banqueting space in London. Stadium tours will give visitors the the river and Georgian villas along Lower Mall. Middlesex TW7 6RJ opportunity to go behind the scenes. The Stadium Arch, a truly 2. Gaze across London Tel: 020 8847 2287. iconic and striking feature, is visible across London; it is wide from the spot that inspired Lord Take a lovely, lazy stroll beside the river along The Thames Nearest train stations are enough for a Channel Tunnel train to run through and tall enough Byron’s earliest poetry from St Path way-marked walk, which follows the river on both banks. Isleworth and Syon Park for the London Eye to pass underneath! Mary’s churchyard on Harrow Cross the river at or Barnes Bridge and wander back www.wembleystadium.com on the Hill. the other side. Go on, you can do it: Hammersmith to Putney 2. Take in a Bollywood Movie is only 2 miles! ...at Cineworld , Leisure West, Air Park Way, Feltham, 3. Spend a lazy Sunday

TW13 7LX (www.cineworld.co.uk ). It is the UK’s largest morning stocking up at the 2. Backstage Tours of the BBC Television

Bollywood box offi ce cinema. Follow this by an authentic curry at weekly farmers’ market in the Centre

London one of the boroughs renowned Indian restaurants such as Lahori

picturesque village of Pinner. Wood Lane W12 (White City tube) 90 minute tours

Karahi, 25-27 Station Parade, Hounslow

10.00am–2.00pm every Pre-book, over 10s Tel: 0870 603 0304 West West in in Road, Feltham TW14 9DF. Tel: 020 890 Sunday, Queen’s Head pub car www..co.uk/experience 0777 or Karahi Xpress, 378 Bath Road,

park, High Street, Pinner. admission charge.

Hounslow West, TW4 7HT. Tel: 0208

locations 577 8767

4. Upstage the West End with an evening of Gilbert

2. Nearest train stations Feltham or Film Film & Sullivan in Gilbert’s former home at Grim’s Dyke Hotel, Old Ealing Green W5 5ED underground station for Redding, Harrow Weald, HA3 6SH. Tel: 020 8385 3100

Tel: 0208 567 6655 Karahi Xpress. www.grimsdyke.com 2. Ealing Road Oldest studios in the world, operational

West Ealing Road, Wembley since 1930. 3. Visit Steam 5. Raise the temperature with a red-hot curry in a A cultural delight with Asian shops, Famous for its comedy Museum selection of award-winning Indian restaurants including Curry

cafes, restaurants and the largest fi lm production of the Green Dragon Lane, Brentford TW8 Mahal, in South Harrow – voted best Indian restaurant in Greater Asian jewellery quarter outside 40’s and 50’s eg Lady 0EN, Tel: 020 8568 4757 and marvel at London Hatton Gardens. This bustling GO GO Killers and Lavender the world’s largest collection of steam centre refl ects the increasing (British Curry Awards 2005, www.britishcurryaward.co.uk) Hill Mob. Now modern pumping engines. Ride on London’s popularity of diverse foods and state of art production only steam railway every Sunday from For more great ideas log on to: clothing and makes a great feast centre for features, TV March to November. www.visitharrow.co.uk New CBBC’s tour for over 7’s for the eyes and the stomach. and commercials. www.kbsm.org On a tour of London’s BBC Television Centre, you will see Nearest rail station is Kew Bridge behind the scenes of the most famous TV centre in the world. Check out the News Centre, production galleries and studios 3. London Motorcycle and you never know who you might bump into along the way! Museum The Television Centre is a working building so your exact Ravenor Farm, 29 Oldfi eld Lane itinerary is planned around what is happening on the day; no 3. Neasden Temple South, UB6 9LB two tours are ever the same. Tel: 0208 575 6644. Cinema Locations in West London (Shri Swaminarayan Over 80 racing and road going 3. Chelsea Football Club Mandir) motorcycles dating from 1903 Ealing Hammersmith and 105-119 Brentfi eld Road, Fulham Road, SW6 1HS (Fulham through to present day with many Cineworld Fulham Neasden NW10 8LD Broadway tube) rare machines in the collection. Uxbridge Road, Ealing W5 5AH Tel: 020 8965 2651 Fulham Broadway Vue Chelsea Stadium Tour www.cineworld.co.uk An amazing architectural Broadway Unit 18, Fulham, Tel: 020 7915 2222 4. Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Broadway Retail Centre www.chelseafc.com gem constructed by skilled Vue Cinema Havelock Road Southall UB1 3AG London SW6 1DN A chance to go behind the scenes craftsmen from 2,000 tons 4. Go on a Heritage Royal Leisure Park, Park Royal Tel: 0208 574 4311 Tel: 0871 224 0240 of the world famous Chelsea of Italian marble and 3,000 Walk... W3 0PA Largest Sikh temple outside of can accommodate 2000 www.myvue.com Football Club with a 75 minute tons of Bulgarian limestone. ...and fi nd out about www.myvue.com worshipers. tour. Visit the Chelsea players’ This must-see Hindu temple includes an exhibition, souvenir Hounslow’s rich and diverse The Olympia Cinema Completed in 2003. Stunning architecture including huge prayer changing rooms, sit in the shop and café. Open 9am to 6pm daily. All visitors are welcome. history including civil Himalaya Palace Cinema Olympia, 2 Hammersmith Road, hall crowned by a golden dome that can be seen from as far Manager’s seat in the dug out, Dress code: no revealing or short clothes. www.mandir.org war battle sites, homes of South Road, Southall UB1 1RT London W14 8UX away as Windsor and the London Eye. walk up the players’ tunnel and famous painters and ancient (Bollywood and Hollywood fi lms) www.himalayapalacecinema.co.uk Riverside Studios hear the crowd roar! Admission almshouses. Heritage walks run 4. The Brent Museum Crisp Road, London, W6 9RL charge. Must pre-book. A modern high tech museum with a completely new selection from June to October inclusive. Tel: 0208 237 1111 Conctact CIP on 0845 456 2929 Hounslow of fantastic and interactive new displays as well as exhibition www.riversidestudios.co.uk 4. The Museum of Fulham Palace galleries. Free entry. Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High www.hounslow.info Watermans Cinema Shepherds Bush Vue Bishop’s Park SW6. Tel: 020 7736 3233 Road, Willesden Green, London NW10 2SU. Tel: 020 8937 3600 High Street, Brentford West 12, London W12 The historic home of the Bishops of London, the Palace www.brent.gov.uk/tourism 5. Go shopping in Chiswick TW8 0DS Tel: 0871 224 0240 building now contains a small museum. Once enclosed by the ...and discover exclusive boutiques and famous names. Take a Tel: 020 8232 1010 www.myvue.com largest moat in England, its beautiful public grounds include break from shopping and relax in one of the many coffee shops www.watermans.org.uk botanic beds, herb garden and secluded wall garden. and restaurants that make Chiswick a favourite with people all Cine World Chelsea over London. Cineworld Feltham 279 Kings Road, London Nearest underground station is Turnham Green Leisure West, Air Park Way, SW3 5EW. Tel: 020 89706010 Feltham TW13 7LX www.cineworld.co.uk Tel: 0870 220 8000 www.cineworld.co.uk Cine World 5. ’ House Fulham Road, 142 Fulham Road, Paul Robeson Theatre 35 Gunnersbury Avenue Ealing W5 London SW10 9QR Treaty Centre, High Street, Star of the famous ‘Carry On’ movies Tel: 0870 907 0711 Hounslow TW3 1ES lived in Ealing during the 1970’s. www.cineworld.co.uk Tel: 0845 456 2840 If you’re a fan of the man and his 5. Tricycle Theatre, Cinema and Gallery www.hounslow.info Cine World Hammersmith This Go West fi lm map is supported by many movies including Carry On 207 King Street, London 5. 269 Kilburn High Road, London W6 7JR Cleo, Carry On At Your Convenience W6 9JT. Tel: 0870 907 0718 This elegant development boasts a marina, hotel, restaurant Tricycle Theatre, Cinema & Gallery: one of London’s best loved and Carry On Camping you may be Harrow www.cineworld.co.uk and the striking glass domes of the Chelsea Design Centre. and most respected production houses presents innovative intrigued to see where he lived. It is a secluded oasis of calm, yet less than 3 miles from the Vue Cinema Harrow theatre, cinema and visual arts programmes. Houses of Parliament. Walk along the river promenade for St George’s Shopping & Leisure Brent www.tricycle.co.uk great views across to Battersea or spend a sunny afternoon Centre, St. Ann’s Road, Harrow Tricycle Theatre, with a cool drink on the of Aquasia, overlooking the HA1 1AS Cinema & Gallery marina. Tel. 08712 240 240. 269 Kilburn High Rd, www.myvue.com For more attractions in Brent London NW6 For further information including and how to get here visit Safari Cinema details of fi lm tours www.brent.gov.uk/tourism Willesden Green Library Station Road, Harrow HA1 2TU Cinema www.visithammersmith.co.uk www.safaricinema.com High Rd, Willesden, London www.visitfulham.co.uk NW10 www.visitshepherdsbush.co.uk

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