Harrow is your backdrop
A Harrow Film Service guide to filming locations in Harrow Harrow is HISTORIC, it is METROLAND and it is GREEN OPEN SPACES
Harrow is a picturesque borough on the doorstep of central London; it is steeped in over a thousand years of history and is your ‘town and country’ location rolled into one. Our brochure gives a glimpse of the range of locations we are famous for and affirms our film friendly reputation. p04 Harrow Film Service p06 Harrow is Your Backdrop p10 Harrow is Historic p10 Harrow is medieval p12 Harrow is victorian p14 Harrow is Metroland p14 Harrow is suburbia p16 Harrow is civic buildings p18 Harrow is Green Open Spaces p18 Harrow is great parks p20 Harrow is open spaces p22 Harrow is Film Friendly p22 Harrow on set p24 Harrow’s location unit bases
2 3 Harrow Working with Harrow Film Office was an absolute pleasure. We wanted “ to take over the Civic Centre for FILM a couple of weeks in all the main public areas and they could not have SERVICE been more helpful. The team were amazing and really pulled out the
stops to make our shoot as smooth as possible arranging large amounts
We really are geared toward of parking to help enable our making filming in Harrow an easy filming. Harrow Film Office are film “ and seamless experience. friendly and it shows. It was a great experience being there and they were hugely supportive of our shoot.
Harriet Lawrence, Location Manager
We had an incredibly
“ successful two days shoot in Harrow and I can hands down equate “ this to the support we had from the team at the Harrow Film Service.
Daniel Spencer, Producer, Curveball Media
4 5 Harrow is YOUR BACKDROP Benefits of filming in Harrow
We have played host to a number of filming productions recently. From small student productions to large scale feature films and television programmes as below;
FILMS TV SHOWS COMMERCIALS > Hitmans Bodyguard > The Crown (series 2) > Barclays > 7 Days in Entebbe > Dr Foster (series 2) > Admiral > All the Devil’s Men > The Voice > Sainsbury’s > Disobedience > Antiques Roadshow > Duracell > Teen Spirit > Howard’s End > Camelot
The Harrow Film Office is the one We really are geared toward making stop shop to meet your filming filming in Harrow an easy and seamless needs. experience.
We can source the right location We have a variety of unit base locations for you and we work in tandem with that can be adapted for all types of Highways, Parking and our Park teams productions and an abundance of to arrange road closures/traffic orders, parking around our main town hall Civic bay suspensions and parks access. Centre site, a unique feature in London.
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8 9 Harrow is 01 05 HISTORIC Harrow is medieval
Harrow is steeped in over 1,200 years 04 of history embodied by the visually beautiful Harrow on the Hill with its ancient 06 beginnings and numerous conservation areas to Headstone Manor, the oldest settlement in Middlesex and Grade 1 listed status, adjacent to the Harrow Museum 01. Evening function, Headstone and old Barn. Manor Barn, Harrow
02. Morris Dancers, Headstone Manor Barn, Harrow
03. Refurbished Headstone 07 Manor House (circa 1310), Harrow 02 04. The Queens Head pub, Pinner
05. High St, Harrow on the Hill
06. High St water fountain, Harrow on the Hill
07. Harrow on the Hill
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10 11 Harrow is 01 03 HISTORIC Harrow is victorian
Harrow contains grand buildings of the Victorian and Edwardian eras steeped in heritage and cultural significance. The Harrow Arts Centre’s Elliott Hall is a Grade II listed building with a vaulted ceiling. Harrow on the Hill’s undulating streets are punctuated by beautiful Harrow School buildings, the stunning locations of many filming productions.
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01. Elliott Hall, Harrow Arts Centre, Hatch End
02. Harrow Arts Centre, Hatch End
03. Harrow School, Harrow on 05 the Hill
04. Latin engraved stone, Harrow on the Hill
05. High St, Harrow on the Hill
12 13 Harrow is 01 04 METROLAND Harrow is suburbia
Harrow is endless avenues of mock Tudor country villas with steep roofs, bay windows, half-timbered gables and well-kept gardens. Harrow is metroland.
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01. Zoroastrian Centre, former 1930’s art deco cinema, Rayners Lane
02 02. Harrow Suburban Street
03. Harrow suburbia, central Harrow
04. Local Police Station, Pinner
05. Pinner High Street, from Paines Lane, Pinner 06 06. Cottages on Waxwell Lane, Pinner
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14 15 Harrow is 01 06 07 METROLAND Harrow is civic buildings
08 Harrow has an array of diverse buildings owned by Harrow Council ranging from its brutalist designed civic centre complex, which now includes the recently 01. Council Chambers, Civic opened Cookery School, to the open air Arc House Centre, Harrow amphitheatre in central Harrow and its various libraries across the borough. 02. Civic Centre, Harrow
02 03. Mayors Parlour, Civic 09 Centre, Harrow
04- Harrow Cookery School, 05. Civic Centre, Harrow
06. Arc House Café and amphitheatre, Harrow 10 07. Arc House amphitheatre, 03 evening show, Harrow
04 08. Kenton Library, Harrow
09. Stanmore Library, waiting area, Stanmore
10. Stanmore Library, interior, Stanmore
11. Stanmore Library, metroland reading area, Stanmore 05 11
16 17 Harrow is 01 05 06 GREEN OPEN SPACES Harrow is great parks
Harrow is ‘town meets country’ with more than 60 areas of parkland and open space covering more than 400 hectares. Harrow parks include various recreation 02 grounds and ornamental gardens such as the Grade II listed Canons Park memorial garden and temple. It also 07 boasts a one of a kind classic and famous 1970’s skate park in Byron Recreation ground. Put simply Harrow is great parks. 01. Canons Park, ‘The Temple’ folly building, Edgware
02. Pinner Memorial Park, Pinner
03. Canons Park, King George V Memorial Gardens, Edgware
04- Harrow Skate Park, Byron 03 06. Recreation Ground, Wealdstone
Roxeth Rec Park, 08 07- 08. Harrow
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18 19 Harrow is 01 05 GREEN OPEN SPACES Harrow is open spaces
One fifth of Harrow is green belt and is characterised by its beautiful open spaces such as Bentley Priory, Old Redding, Stanmore Common and the Grove to name a few. Harrow is open space.
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01- Bentley Priory Nature 03. Reserve, Stanmore
04. The Grove open space, Lowlands Rd, Harrow on the Hill
02 03 05. Old Redding, Harrow Weald
06. Stanmore Common, Stanmore
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20 21 01 Harrow is Working with the team at the Harrow Film Office was a “ total pleasure from start to FILM finish. They worked out of hours to arrange filming and parking permits at very short FRIENDLY notice. Unlike some councils, Harrow on set they were always easy to get in touch with and worked tirelessly to help in whatever way they could. I would
thoroughly recommend
Filming in Harrow could not be easier. We are 02 conveniently located 12 miles to the north-west choosing Harrow as a of central London within easy reach of major location again based “ film studios in the area. Our flexible approach almost exclusively on to meet the needs of the film industry makes filming in Harrow a seamless process. At our my experience working with Civic Centre we allow exclusive filming access the Harrow Film Office. during the week as well as weekends at competitive rates. We can provide catering for crew and we have an abundance of parking. Lucy Gaymer, Harrow is truly a film friendly borough. Production Coordinator, (Eleven Film) 04 03 05 We recently filmed an advert in Harrow Town centre and the “ Harrow Film Office were brilliant. 01. Hitmans Bodyguard, 2017
They were very accommodating with all of our needs given that we
02. Filming in Centenary Park, had particularly involved scenes Edgware in a car park, a high street,“ alleyways but all went to plan. St Anns Road, I look forward to working with the 03- Harrow Harrow team again. 05.
Tom Reeves, Location Manager (Outsider)
22 23 Harrow is 01 05 FILM FRIENDLY Harrow’s location unit bases
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We can source the right locations and unit bases for filming vehicles using our local expertise and logistical experience to minimise your set up and travel time between locations ensuring that filming in Harrow goes to plan. 06
01. Bannister Sports Centre, Harrow Weald car park
02. Waxwell Lane car park, Pinner
03. Peel Road multi-storey car I have found the Harrow Film park, Wealdstone 03 Service to be friendly, prompt “and efficient to deal with and 04. Greenhill Way car park,
would have no hesitation in Harrow
recommending their services to my contemporaries. On a recent 05. Old Redding car park, project I was given a very short “ Harrow Weald lead-in time to come up with options to satisfy a brief and 06. Chapel Lane car park, Pinner Harrow Film Office were great.
Bill Twiston-Davies, Location Manager 04
24 25 Get in touch WITH US
To view all our locations please visit our locations library; https://www.harrowcommercialservices. co.uk/services/harrow-film-service/ filminglocations/harrowlocations
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Call us on: 020 8736 6810
Or email us at: [email protected]
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Produced by the Harrow Film Service, Business & Commercial Services, Harrow Council www.harrowcommercialservices.co.uk/services/harrow-film-service