Stucco terraces with cast-iron balconies line the Marina, and Brighton (2019) shot along the seafront here.
What St Leonards looks like
The Marina and are lined with stucco terraces. Nos 119 and 120 Marina date from about 1830 and are three storeys over a basement, with a cornice and parapet. The first floor has a cast-iron balcony under a tent-shaped canopy. The painted fronts are cream and pink, and one brick run stands among them.
rises above the Marina at fourteen storeys, a curved white block with balconies on its upper floors and twenty shops at ground level. The stands on the same road, stuccoed, with five storeys and an attic under a slate mansard roof.
is a covered concrete walkway on the lower deck of the promenade, running from the pier to Warrior Square. It was built in the 1930s. Its walls are concrete panels with bottle glass set in them, and the pillars are white.
St John's Road slopes between bay-fronted Victorian terraces. The octagonal red-brick tower of , on Upper Maze Hill, has stone dressings and a clock face.
Shopfronts line London Road at street level. A stone church with a tall spire stands beside the road. A food shop with a green frontage stands on one side of the road, and traffic lights stand on the other.
Shot in St Leonards
Shadow of a Man (1956) used entrance D of Marine Court for the flat the characters return to after a nightclub fight. Double Confession (1950) put the block in the distance of a speedboat chase, and The Dark Man (1951) shot the north side of Grand Parade and the Marina. Brighton (2019) has most of its named sites here rather than in Brighton itself.
The Dark Man (1951)
Grand Parade
Played Walsham Bay, the film's fictional seaside town
The Dark Man was shot on the north side of Grand Parade. The photograph shows the same north side, looking west along the terraces toward the curved white block of Marine Court. Street View
Lewes Crescent and Arundel Terrace were begun in 1823 on the Kemp Town estate, which was completed in 1855, close in date and street type to the terraces on the Marina. Single terrace fronts framed from the road hold the match best. A wide frame that takes in the Enclosures gardens gives the crescent away, so keep the shot on one terrace front. Try searching Lewes Crescent now.
Montpellier's Regency terraces date from the 1830s, the same years as the Marina's listed terraces. Cheltenham is inland, so the comparison rests on the terraces alone. Keep the frame tight on one terrace, because the sea in a wide view gives the seaside away. Try searching Regency terraces now.
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