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Harrow School Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s The Devil Rides Out The Battle of Britain Sixty Six Shaun of the Dead Derailed Stone Hammer House of Horror Independent fi lm makers Olympic Way, Wembley, Coronation Road, Park Royal, Central Middlesex Hospital, 1968 1969 November 2005 October 2003 Park Royal, October 2004 Warner Bros 2001 Starring: Christopher Lee, Starring: Michael Caine, Sixty Six is a coming of age of story One of the iconic scenes from Suspense thriller starring Clive Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Charles Gray, Sarah Lawson, Trevor Howard, Kenneth More, which is set against the backdrop the fi lm was fi lmed in Brent, on Owen and Jennifer Anniston Watson, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Paul Eddington, Russell Waters Laurence Olivier, Michael of the 1966 World cup. To make Coronation Road in Park Royal. The was set in Chicago and fi lmed in Ian Hart, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffi ths, Fiona Redgrave, Ralph Richardson. the scenes as authentic as possible location was chosen as the roads are London. The ACAD Centre is used Location: The Grim’s Dyke Shaw, John Cleese, John Hurt, David Bradley Universal Pictures 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 Wembley Stadium 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 www.wembleystadium.com BRENT HARROW BRENT regularly used for fi lming. Love Actually The Young Ones A4140 Mowbray Road, Brondesbury 409 UK (1961) Park, September 2004 A410 Starring: Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray, Richard Romantic comedy 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 Ruislip 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 - Uxbridge 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 HILLINGDON Davison (The Last Detective) and John Hannah (Amnesia). and Martha Meet Frank, A404 Daniel and Laurence. True Blue, tells the true story of Bend it Like Beckham the 1986 Oxford-Cambridge boat race, when it changed Filmed in Barra Hall Park Hayes– the early football scenes... from a gentleman’s race with Jess and her friends to one where winning was everything. A4090 A404 Location: Hammersmith Chocolat (2001) HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM Bridge A4127 Starring: Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench, Johnny HILLINGDON Depp. Filmed in Barra Hall itself, scenes from the fi lm ‘Chocolat A4180 Scoop A404 2006 Starring: Woody Allen; Hugh Jackman and A40 Scarlett Johansson Calendar Girls “a light comedy about sex, love, suspense and murder”. Harbour Pictures 2003 Location: Shepherds Bush Empire, Shepherds Starring: Helen Mirren and Julie Walters. Bush Green W12 8TT. Since 1903, the Shepherd’s Location: Ramada Jarvis Hotel Ealing 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: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightly and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The Life and Death A40 Location: Southall 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: Geoffrey Rush, Sharlize Theron and Emily The Importance of Being Earnest Watson. Location: Ravenscourt Park Fragile Films 2002 Hospital, Ravenscourt Park, Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon and Judy Dench A4 Hammersmith W6. The exterior Location: Pitzhanger Manor 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 Match Point Starring: Hugh Grant 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 Emily Mortimer. 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: Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant,Liam Neeson, 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 Gunnersbury Park Estate, Popes Lane The Butts, Brentford TW8 8BQ Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 The Griffi n Pub, 57 Brook Road Chiswick 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.hounslow.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 Syon House is located in Brentford. The The nearest train station is Chiswick House and Grounds are located stayed in. Acton Town (piccadilly and district (district line). 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 Osterley (piccadilly line). Full travel informaiton (piccadilly line). For further location is Turnham Green (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 Gunnersbury Park 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 Nigel Hawthorne, who starred in Stevenson and Keira Knightly in Bend it Like Beckham! Gunnersbury Park Elijah Wood 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 Duke of Northumberland. 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 river Thames, so close to London and major fi lm studios, is a gardens, green open spaces, lakes, historic buildings, a museum, play and pubs 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.