Two and three storey shopfronts and hotels under cast iron verandahs, and the street the South Korean film Road to Boston dressed as 1940s Boston.
What Lydiard Street looks like
The street runs straight for several blocks, with two and three storey shopfronts and hotels of similar height. Most of the facades are Victorian and date from about 1865 to 1890. They carry rendered or stone fronts with classical detailing, and cast iron verandahs and balconies appear along the row. Parked cars line the kerb in front of a wide road.
stands at the north end, a white building with a clock tower. Within a block of Sturt Street sit , and .
Her Majesty's Theatre has a cream ornate facade with arched windows and a canopy over the entrance. Craig's Royal Hotel has banded rustication at ground level and a cast iron portico. Its south wing has two towers, and the north wing rises to four storeys. The former Mining Exchange is a two storey block of shops at the front, with a single storey exchange hall behind. The has a stone facade with a pediment.
The South Korean film Road to Boston, released in 2023, dressed these shopfronts as 1940s Boston. Crews covered business signs and parking meters, and dozens of extras worked in period costume beside classic cars and police bikes. Runners went up and down the hill toward Sturt Street, and the street closed for the day between the train station and Dana Street.
Shot in Lydiard Street
The South Korean film Road to Boston dressed the historic shopfronts as 1940s Boston. It was released in 2023. Crews covered the business signs and parking meters for the day, and the street stood in for the film's Boston.
Road to Boston, 2023
Played a street of shopfronts, Boston, Massachusetts, 1940s
The street between the train station and Dana Street was closed for the day, and the runners went up and down the hill toward Sturt Street. Crews covered the business signs and parking meters so the shopfronts look like 1940s Boston, and dozens of extras worked in period costume.
What Lydiard Street can double for
Hannan Street in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Hannan Street is a surviving Victorian street of single and two storey buildings built up to the street boundary, largely developed around 1900 under wide protective verandahs over the pavements. The verandah line along the street is the match. Shoot at street level and keep the modern shopfront signs out of shot, since they date the frame to the present. Try searching wide verandahs street now.
South Terrace in Fremantle, Western Australia
The 1895 corner shop and attached terraces are two storey limestone and iron. They carried full length front verandahs on the street front, and their scale and period sit close to the street's boom facades. The terrace verandahs are iron roofs on timber posts, not cast iron, so tighter frames on the upper floors and the verandah line keep the match and leave the posts out of shot. Try searching limestone shop verandahs now.
