5 Unexpected London Film Locations

Were Beckton Gasworks also where most of the car chases in the TV show 'The Professionals' used to end up? Lots of scenes of cars racing about, and making a racket inside huge abandoned buildings, I seem to remember.

I'm amazed by your work. Thank you so much. 😊

I absolutely love this channel... I live in Wembley so have a few day trips on the bike planned for the summer... The mcvities factory has a shop! Ah, memories of Beckton Alp... Fine views of the old West Ham stadium from there ❤

You should consider a recording studio around London and the albums made in them

Excellent video.
Also the 1986 movie Biggles adventures in time was filmed at Beckton and the Tower Bridge area.

Well done Rob!
London history is a!ways fascinating.

Wait....

Full Metal Jacket...

Filmed in the UK!?!

I'm gobsmacked! 😮

Absolutely Brilliant entertainment

I used to live at 53 St Albans Avenue on the other side of the A13 and was christened in St Margarets Church and I'm one of the few people still entitled to be interred in that very small churchyard

I was working in one of the few office buildings left on the Beckton Gas site during the filming of Full Metal Jacket. Drove into the site one morning to see a troop of Vietnamese soldiers marching down the road accompanied by a tank. Quite often we would get told that " there will be a few explosions and fires on site today." - In a gas works! The derelict gas work buildings adorned with Vietnamese writing and mixed with palm trees looked really eerie. When they packed up and left, the crew gifted a couple of the palm trees to the site and they were replanted in front of the offices. Don't think they lasted long though.🤔🤔

Thanks and appreciate your 'Unexpexcted London Film Locations'. Superb research and video quality production

Great little video that’ very interesting, especially Full Metal Jacket movie exclusively filmed in England. Great work 👍

Ah I remember using Aldwych station to go to work at Somerset House! I worked at The Inland Revenue in the Printing department! Great group of people to work with! Happy days!

Interesting video, £3000 a hr does seem a bit steep, I’ll have to find an alternative 😂😂

Very interesting so much research and effort has gone into this. Many thanks 👍

Very interesting thanks for that , used to work in Cambridge Heath Rd E2 at the rear of our premises was Corbridge Crescent and Angel Passage, the large gloomy house at the end of the crescent was in Tinker Taylor etc and many other films as was the passage , the area was difficult to access and out of the way and perfect for filming.

Informative + fascinating as ever. I almost never watch movies so I've not seen any of those films. A lot of costume dramas,tv but maybe scenes in films too,I don't know,are shot in that complex of streets,it could almost be called a little village ,in Waterloo around Roupell st. Judy Harris of Streatham who has studied this family (in my ancestry) showed me around the "Roupell places" and they were filming a tv show set in Victorian days that day. Judy leafletted the area to increase her book sales and found out that a significant portion of the houses in those streets are owned by MPs as their London pied de terre. I can see why. Very quiet,you can hear the birds sing!,but close to Westminster.

Well done Rob. Yet another fascinating, interesting and well researched video. Thank you. There are a lot on here who could learn so much from watching your films. Congratulations I look forward to the next one. Mick

I love your history of London Rob. I was a child in the 1960's, I cycled, Red Rovered and walked much of London with friends and often wondered why was that there. I remember stroking the exquisite woodwork in St Pauls and various places. We could even stand outside 10 Downing street back in the day. Although it has seen some unsavoury characters :o) I remember on Underground stations you had like slot machines with drawers, I think they were Paynes chocolate covered nuts and raisins and such. There were also tobacconist's kiosk's. I live in the Lakes now and visited London probably about 10 years ago and was saddened so much of history has been raised. Thank you :o)

Loved this video Rob!

Thank you sincerely absolutely fascinating. I have been fascinated by movies since watching Hollywood films of the 30’s and 40’s. Discovering the truth behind the actual reality of Hollywood was a shock but also intriguing. You can’t believe anything you see because of technology now able to do anything and sadly they want to use entertainment as propaganda
making a lot of stuff unwatchable. However it’s fascinating to discover these magic gems and I’m always in awe at the lengths creators will go to create a scene, an image, an era which often lives in our movie memories forever.

Epic. Never knew about the buildings next to Westfield being in movies. Love the buildings and still love Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Loved your video, an idea for a future video "Locations from Bed-knobs and Broom-Sticks" .

Very interesting and well produced video. I believe some scenes for Full Metal Jacket were also filmed on the Cliffe Marshes by the Thames in Kent.

I had always thought that Millennium Mills was used in Full Metal Jacket, so thanks for correcting me.

Great Video Rob , Thank You . Beckton Gas Works was also the location for the band Oasis Music Video ' Do You Know What I Mean ' with some of the FMJ Artwork still in view . Regards

Excellent as ever Rob super location’s.did you know George Lucas had a heart problem when working on Starwars because of union rules as ever keep up the good work 👍👍

Thanks

Well I never knew Enfield was used in full metal jacket

Thank You!
What a wonderful insight into the past that is so important.

Fantastic. Thoroughly engaging, like a mini movie. Wasn’t the south (east) of London Bridge used in …. One of the recent James Bond Films ? As the entrance to where M or maybe Q had their office.

What a brilliant video, must of taken ages to put it all together, cheers Rob

Excellent stuff as usual Rob. I liived in London for most of my life and only got to see/experience a tiny amount of what you provide on this superb website. I do, however, have a problem! I want (need?) Some of your mugs. Thing is i can't get to your online shop. All i get is summat from some snide recruitment outfit. Help a chap get his mugs Rob! It's inhumane to deprive me 😢😂

That was really good. Fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing!

A very minor addition - I used to work in Adam Street just off the Strand; about 4 or 5 years ago the street was taken over by a film crew (whilst I was still working, thus able to observe. It was redressed as Washington DC in 1984, changing the Smith & Wollensky steak restaurant into a Washington DC lawyers office, and the back of the Adelphi into a Washington hotel. They then proceeded to drive around 11 or 12 1980s US cars round and round in a loop for a couple of hours or so. I wasn't convinced at the time this would fool an audience. But when I saw the film "Wonder Woman 1984" - it was seamless - despite being a slightly lack-lustre sequel. Unfortunately I didn't get to meet Chris Pine or the wonderful Gal Gadot.

Love your stuff always, but this is the best ever, you are the best, you just need to keep it going. Love.

OMG they where at the beach, really I had to look it up, 100 percent right ( could not find the percent key) keep going.

I didn’t realise that some of those films were shot in London! Just goes to show! I know they use Richmond Theatre a lot in films & TV. They don’t a lot of Finding Neverland there and around Richmond Green - it was amazing how quickly they can transform an area to a completely different time. Excellent video Rob ❤

Firestarter by Prodigy was also filmed at Aldwych,

Thanks for the great video 😊

Great documentary Rob.

fab robert love uncle kev . Hope to see you soon xx

Oh my, so interesting and cannot believe how much I have learnt from you. Cannot thank you enough for your interesting videos and the time and effort you put into it. ❤

My vote goes to a underpass in a roundabout in south-west London for a scene in A Clockwork Orange,

Another great video. I worked in Fleet street in late 80's early 90s I use to get off at the Aldridge Station. I love your videos as they bring back so many memories, now that I live in Australia.

Bloody good video, Rob.

Did you used to do commentaries on Thames River tours - l video taped you in 2005 if you did - cheers Richard

Wow Rob some of my earliest memories are from the early 70s at Ruislip Lido during school holidays with my cousins. Pretty sure that's where I learnt to swim. Well that and the river at Hurley. Scenes from a night to remember, one of my favorite movies. Amazing to learn. Just brilliant Rob. 💯🍻

I heard the dead giveaway that Full Metal Jacket was filmed in the U.K. is scenes where you can see condensation of steam coming from breathing showing that they are not being filmed in the tropics

Awesome history