Moody London locations?

[surrey jim]

Aylesbury Estate London

Accoring to Wiki

For years it was the first port of call for directors, producers and location scouts looking for grim backdrops to murder scenes, gun and drug storylines and gang-related crimes in soaps and gritty dramas. Due to pressure from local residents, Southwark council banned filming on the estate, but the ident continues to be aired regularly. All these representations have perpetuated the reputation of the estate... We felt we needed to record an alternative and more truthful version of the clip. We worked with film-maker Nick Street to make our own version that looks beyond the concrete exterior.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Do you mean East? I ran around London quite early on a Sunday morning recently. across Tower Bridge from South to North and then headed back West alongside the Thames. From the Tower of London you have to come away from the Thames for a bit before you can get back down to it, but it didn't seem that dodgy at all, although I do remember waking up some homeless folk as I came stomping through at some point of that stretch.

A group of us had been for a meal at St Catherines Dock, and decided to walk along the Thames, where you had ran, to walk off the evening and catch a tube home.
Obviously after a few sherbets the ambience of the area seemed a bit 'moody', but I'm no Spielberg

 

[Arthur]

The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane near Spitalfields.

He did say he didn't wanted piece and quiet. Brick Lane is manic whatever time of day you are round there.

Aylesbury Estate London

Anywhere around Elephant is moody, but isn't that the boarded up estate they have been trying to redevelop for a while?

Only place that is going to be quiet in Central London on a Sunday is the City. You might be able to find some "moody" bits around the older parts (Aldgate, Fleet Street, Temple).

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Eltham
regards
DR

 

[The Hon Sec]

Fournier Street between Spitalfields and Brick Lane. Fantastic old houses, Used to get used a lot for historical dramas featuring horse drawn carriages. Very peaceful, think it might even be closed to traffic.

Else maybe the Greenwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames?

I was thinking of these old weavers houses around Fournier Street. reasonably quiet round there when I was there earlier this year. Some derelict and also some old shop fronts.

 

[Captain Haddock]

He did say he didn't wanted piece and quiet. Brick Lane is manic whatever time of day you are round there.



Anywhere around Elephant is moody, but isn't that the boarded up estate they have been trying to redevelop for a while?

Only place that is going to be quiet in Central London on a Sunday is the City. You might be able to find some "moody" bits around the older parts (Aldgate, Fleet Street, Temple).

Or Barbican. Bleak 70s vision of the future. Dead quiet on Sundays around the estates.

 

[clapham_gull]

OMG ! I almost absolutely god mugged (for real) buying a guava in the market during a break in the shoot.

Be careful interacting with the locals when you explain the reason you are there is that basically you think it's a sh*thole.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Deptford.

 

[ThePompousPaladin]

Bunhill burial grounds.
Next to Old street, couple of stops up from London bridge.

 

[blue'n'white]

Idol Lane EC3
There's an old church there (St Dunstans in the East) that was ruined in the Blitz and it has been remade as a public garden
It's quite atmospheric

Otherwise I would suggest the arches by Limehouse on the DLR or most parts of Whitechapel which can be pretty scruffy or the maze of streets around Fieldgate Street

 

[theboybilly]

The Silverthorne Road area of Battersea (SW8) has everything you need: Victorian terraces, railway arches, industrial estate, grotty 1960s housing

 

[Half Time Pies]

Bunhill burial grounds.
Next to Old street, couple of stops up from London bridge.

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That looks a lot like the Hardy Tree at St Pancras Old Church.



Actually the old church and St Pancras/ Camden wouldn't be a bad destination. You have a medieval church, moody grave yard and next door an old Victorian hospital where I used to work. Up from there you have the canal which can be quite moody in places, lots of arches under the railway line and some dodgy housing estates to add to the mix.

 

[Half Time Pies]

Another location could be highgate cemetery which is full of huge funeral monuments and very moody architecture.

http://highgatecemetery.org

 

[gripper stebson]

Brilliant thanks for all these guys!

 

[alfredmizen]

He did say he didn't wanted piece and quiet. Brick Lane is manic whatever time of day you are round there.



Anywhere around Elephant is moody, but isn't that the boarded up estate they have been trying to redevelop for a while?

Only place that is going to be quiet in Central London on a Sunday is the City. You might be able to find some "moody" bits around the older parts (Aldgate, Fleet Street, Temple).

no, that is the heygate.

 

[essbee]

That looks a lot like the Hardy Tree at St Pancras Old Church.

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Actually the old church and St Pancras/ Camden wouldn't be a bad destination. You have a medieval church, moody grave yard and next door an old Victorian hospital where I used to work. Up from there you have the canal which can be quite moody in places, lots of arches under the railway line and some dodgy housing estates to add to the mix.

I'd second this - a great mix of the modern and old. And the Beatles had their photo taken on the marked bench in this
churchyard in the 60's as part of their mad day out.

 

[ThePompousPaladin]

That looks a lot like the Hardy Tree at St Pancras Old Church.

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Actually the old church and St Pancras/ Camden wouldn't be a bad destination. You have a medieval church, moody grave yard and next door an old Victorian hospital where I used to work. Up from there you have the canal which can be quite moody in places, lots of arches under the railway line and some dodgy housing estates to add to the mix.

Errrm, that's because it is!
My mistake, damn google images, although there is a similar thing going on at bunhill. Bunhill's stones seem much more drab, if that's a look you want.



So St Pancras for the awesome tombstone tree, bunhill for the drabness.

 

[Half Time Pies]

I'd second this - a great mix of the modern and old. And the Beatles had their photo taken on the marked bench in this
churchyard in the 60's as part of their mad day out.

I wandered around that church yard every lunchtime for 6 months before I realised the history of the place. Absolutely fascinating and not a tourist in sight!

 

[essbee]

I wandered around that church yard every lunchtime for 6 months before I realised the history of the place. Absolutely fascinating and not a tourist in sight!

Yep - I lived in London for 27 years and never knew this place existed. You know the large tombstone - they used that
apparently as the model for the red phone boxes we used to see (and still see to a certain extent) in London.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Bit of mist down Greenwich Foot Tunnel.