Red brick railway arches frame a stone canal basin, with glass towers rising directly behind the vaults.
What Granary Wharf looks like
Red brick railway arches carry Leeds station over a stone canal basin, with three glass apartment towers rising directly behind them. The sits at the foot of the arches, a stone canal warehouse at the water's edge. Narrowboats moor along the towpath in front of it.
The arches date from the 1860s. Inside them, groined brick vaults run in every direction, the brick darkened by more than a century and a half of soot and damp. The ceilings are tall enough for a double decker bus. Four tunnels carry the River Aire through the western end, spanned by a cast iron footbridge. The brick floor near Water Lane turns slippery when wet.
rises 76 metres in 23 storeys of glass directly behind the basin. and a DoubleTree by Hilton hotel stand beside it, at 50 and 48 metres, their glass curtain walls facing straight onto the stone warehouses below.
and Archie's Bar and Kitchen each occupy two of the arches, opening directly onto the stone paving and the water. Bicycles line the railings beside the old graving dock, and the stone block paving continues along the promenade past the lock gates.
Shot in Granary Wharf
For the 2015 Netflix miniseries Residue, the production used the Dark Arches as one of several Leeds locations. The series is set in London but was shot mainly in Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, so the vaulted tunnels stand in for the city the story is set in rather than for Leeds itself.
Residue, 2015
Played London, England, present day
Residue filmed under the vaulted brick arches here, among its other Leeds locations. The tunnels appear undressed, the same soot darkened brick and uneven floor a visitor finds today. Street View
Castlefield's own canal basin sits beneath four red brick railway viaducts, the oldest from 1849 with a cast iron bridge over the water, the same pairing of brick arches and canal this wharf has. The district has stood in for itself and nearby streets in Peaky Blinders and Sherlock Holmes. Castlefield's basin runs more open than the enclosed vaults here, so a shot inside a tunnel mouth holds the match better than a wide basin view. Try searching red brick railway viaducts now.
Camden Lock's own towpath runs along the Regent's Canal beneath a railway viaduct, its overhead gantries visible above the water much as the arches are here. Narrowboats moor along the lock in front of Victorian warehouse walls, the same pairing of boats and brick this wharf's towpath has. Camden's market stalls and crowds are the giveaway in any wide shot, so an early morning frame on the towpath and the viaduct holds the match better than anything near the lock itself. Try searching narrowboats along a towpath now.
Druid Street and Maltby Street run through Victorian railway arches in Bermondsey. Each arch is fitted with its own bar or brewery taproom, the same unit by unit use The Hop and Archie's Bar and Kitchen make of the arches here. The brickwork matches in scale and in the segmental shape of the arch mouths. Bermondsey has no canal alongside it, so the comparison only holds in a tight shot on one arch mouth rather than anything wider that would show water. Try searching railway arch bar now.
