![]() There’s cinematic history on Barton Street, too, with a brace of Sherlock Holmes movies. The imposing house in the background of the shot, once home to the Bishop of London, stands on Barton Street and a few doors down, at 14 Barton Street another plaque marks the one-time residence of TE Lawrence – Lawrence of Arabia. If you’re visiting, check out 16 Cowley Street, which bears a Blue Plaque commemorating it as the former home of the great Shakespearian actor – and Arthur’s foul-mouthed butler – Sir John Gielgud. Not surprisingly, this is an area rich in history – as well as just rich. On the way back from Topsy’s, Mary and the children, carefully balanced on Jack’s top-heavy bike, spy Jane walking along Cowley Street, SW1, tucked away in the backstreets of Westminster (not too far from the Two Chairmen). Mary Poppins Returns film location: Jack gives Jane a lift on his bike: Cowley Street, Westminster, London SW1 This has made countless screen appearances over the years – seen in everything from Norman Wisdom comedies to Bond movies.įaced with losing his home, Michael Banks is obliged to plead his case to bank chairman Mr Wilkins ( Colin Firth). It’s East again, to pass the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral where there’s a quick acknowledgment for the Bird Lady from the original film.įinally, we get to the environs of the Banks family and the park alongside their house, which is the famous garden at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. The Two Chairmen, by the way, was the drinking-hole of Richard E Grant in Robert Bierman’s 1997 film of George Orwell’s Keep The Aspidistra Flying (retitled A Merry War in the US). Jack cycles past the Two Chairmen pub, 39 Dartmouth Street at Queen Anne's Gate, SW1, which is not only claimed to be the oldest pub in Westminster but, being so close to the seat of government, has been the site of various political machinations. Mary Poppins Returns film location: 'Underneath the Lovely London Sky' – Jack cycles past the pub: Two Chairmen, Dartmouth Street, Westminster, London SW1 Tower Bridge, to the south, makes an inevitable appearance in the background as Jack cycles along the Thames path alongside the Tower of London, before we head West again to the heart of Westminster. Many streets of 18th Century terraced houses remain virtually unchanged making this an ideal location for period movies – scenes for Suffragette were recently filmed here.Īfter decades of neglect, the neighbourhood was ‘discovered’ and it has now become impossibly gentrified.īlossom Street itself is currently off-limits for a major redevelopment, though the side of the street seen in the film appears to have been spared. Spitalfields was once a notoriously poor area and, being near to the old port, became home to various immigrant communities. Starting at a digitally enhanced Thames Embankment, across the River Thames from the Houses of Parliament, Jack’s route is predictably picturesque if not geographically coherent.įrom the Embankment, opposite Westminster, he’s immediately in the East End, on Blossom Street in Spitalfields, northeast of Liverpool Street Station. There are plenty of practical locations seen during the opening number, Underneath the Lovely London Sky, as lamplighter Jack ( Lin-Manuel Miranda) cycles around in the early morning turning off the gas streetlights. Unfortunately, these don’t include '17 Cherry Tree Lane', the threatened home of the grown-up Banks siblings, Michael ( Ben Whishaw) and Jane ( Emily Mortimer) and widowed Michael’s three children, which was a huge set built on H Stage at Shepperton Studios. ![]() Unlike the 1964 film of Mary Poppins, which was filmed entirely on Disney’s stages in Burbank, California, Mary Poppins Returns was not only made in the UK but even uses some real London locations. Following up the beloved Sixties classic was always going to be a tall order and if Rob Marshall’s sequel doesn’t quite match up to the original, at least it respects the style from the oil painting opening credits to the old-school hand-drawn animation and the casting of an American as the lovable Cockney. ![]()
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