Harrow is your backdrop

A 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 ; 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 with its ancient 06 beginnings and numerous conservation areas to Headstone Manor, the oldest settlement in 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,

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 buildings, the stunning locations of many filming productions.

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01. Elliott Hall, Harrow Arts Centre,

02. Harrow Arts Centre, Hatch End

03. Harrow School, Harrow on 05 the Hill

04.  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,

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.  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 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,

02. Pinner Memorial Park, Pinner

03. Canons Park, King George V Memorial Gardens, Edgware

04- Harrow Skate Park, Byron 03 06. Recreation Ground,

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 , 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,

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

TO FILM IN HARROW

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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