South London Film and TV locations Archives

David Lynch/Elephant Man in Shad Thames SE1

Jan

21

2025

Shad Thames/Butlers Wharf has been used in so many films, evoking as it does to this day the lost world of dockside London with its warehouses and narrow streets.It was memorably used in 'The Elephant Man' (1980), starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins and directed by David Lynch, who was hired for the job by ...

Music Monday: Goat Girl – Ride Around on Dawson’s Heights (and Nunhead)

Mar

4

2024

Ride Around, the new single from Goat Girl, features scenes shot by Dawson' Heights Estate in East Dulwich......and inside our current favourite local pizza place, Dinner for One Hundred's Bar D4100 in Evelina Road, Nunhead.Not sure about other locations - what do you reckon?

Ted Lasso at the Rivoli

Apr

11

2023

Finally catching up with Ted Lasso, and pleased to spot a scene filmed at the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park. In series one there's an episode based around an AFC Richmond charity gala and guess they needed somewhere with red velvet walls and chandeliers like many before them.Ted Lasson (Jason Sudeikis) gets a round inRebecca ...

Ted Lasso at the Rivoli

Apr

11

2023

Finally catching up with Ted Lasso, and pleased to spot a scene filmed at the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park. In series one there's an episode based around an AFC Richmond charity gala and guess they needed somewhere with red velvet walls and chandeliers like many before them.Ted Lasson (Jason Sudeikis) gets a round inRebecca ...

‘You and Me’ – South London ITV Drama

Feb

27

2023

'You and Me', first broadcast on ITV in February 2023, is a romantic drama series shot pretty much entirely in South London. It opens with a shot of Telegraph Hill Park, a location that features in many key scenes (top and bottom parts of park), then the set up scene is in Deptford High Street ...

‘You and Me’ – TV drama filming at Skehans

Jun

9

2022

Lots of filming going on this week around Telegraph Hill locations for new ITV drama series 'You and Me', including at Skehans pub SE14 where one of the characters is seen getting into a black cab and heading off down Gellatly Road. The Hill Station Cafe has also been used. The series, with Russell T ...

‘You and Me’ – TV drama filming at Skehans

Jun

9

2022

Lots of filming going on this week around Telegraph Hill locations for new ITV drama series 'You and Me', including at Skehans pub SE14 where one of the characters is seen getting into a black cab and heading off down Gellatly Road. The Hill Station Cafe has also been used. The series, with Russell T ...

‘Close to Me’ – Christopher Eccleston and Connie Nielsen in the Rivoli

Nov

17

2021

Channel 4 drama 'Close to Me' is the latest to make use of the Rivoli Ballroom as a location. In the story a fundraising event for refugees in Hastings actually takes place in Brockley Road SE4. Sometime Dr Who Christopher Eccleston and Danish actor Connie Nielsen - sometime Queen Hipployta in the DC universe - ...

Music Monday: King Krule – more songs about Peckham Rye and Bermondsey

Oct

30

2017

King Krule has a new album out, The OOZ. In a recent Gilles Peterson interview the East Dulwich/Peckham Rye raised artist mentions that he demo'd some of the tracks at Shrunken Heads studio in Nunhead (40 Nunhead Green), and also talks about a recent night out at the Royal Albert in Deptford. Bermondsey gets a couple ...

Music Monday: Otzeki – Falling Out on the New Cross Road

Oct

2

2017

Yes I know this is not exactly news - Otzeki's Falling Out was released last year on Rough Trade. But the video starts with the message 'Thank you Ziggy for bringing freedom and happiness onto the streets of New Cross' and was seemingly shot outside the William Hill bookies at 174 New Cross Road (near ...

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David Lynch/Elephant Man in Shad Thames SE1

Music Monday: Goat Girl – Ride Around on Dawson’s Heights (and Nunhead)

Ted Lasso at the Rivoli

Ted Lasso at the Rivoli

‘You and Me’ – South London ITV Drama

‘You and Me’ – TV drama filming at Skehans

‘You and Me’ – TV drama filming at Skehans

‘Close to Me’ – Christopher Eccleston and Connie Nielsen in the Rivoli

Music Monday: King Krule – more songs about Peckham Rye and Bermondsey

Music Monday: Otzeki – Falling Out on the New Cross Road