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Filming in Borough Market, London

Iron columns and a glazed Victorian roof cover market stalls under a live railway viaduct.

Red striped market awnings and green painted iron columns under a glazed Victorian canopy, stalls lining the aisle on both sides.

What Borough Market looks like

is built from several separate iron and glass sheds, with two railway bridges converging directly overhead where the tracks run between London Bridge and Charing Cross. Trains cross the roofline every few minutes, and Victorian truss roofs and arched glass windows run the length of the market underneath them.

The cast iron columns carry capitals in two contrasting styles. One side is more ornate than the other, with fuller scrollwork on the brackets.

Narrow, winding alleyways connect the sheds, the cobblestones underfoot worn and uneven. Six cast iron bollards at the entrance carry raised lettering reading 1813 BORO MARKET, and an 1884 gas lamp post stands beside them with its original lantern and feeder pipe still in place.

On the market's own frontage, the Floral Hall portico is a two storey cast iron and glass facade, with an open arcade on square pillars at street level and a restaurant above behind tall round headed windows. Its pale, silvered ironwork stands out against the plain brick walls around it.

Bedale Street, and run off the market on three sides, each lined with low brick shopfronts set directly against a railway arch or viaduct wall. The buildings along them are two to four storeys, with ground floor units that still trade as a pub, a wine shop and small delis under the bridge.

Shot in Borough Market

Four productions have filmed on the real streets around Borough Market. Bridget Jones's Diary used the shopfronts and pubs facing the market itself, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban did the same on Stoney Street. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels took over two flats on Park Street. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus parked its traveling show in the market's Green Market by .

Bridget Jones's Diary, 2001

The Globe

Bedale Street under the railway bridge, a green van parked against the brick viaduct wall with a market sign and a person on a break. The street the Globe stands on rather than the pub's own frontage, which is the Street View beside it.

Bridget's flat entrance above The Globe was filmed on Bedale Street, and the production also shot her walking through the market stalls nearby. The pub still trades under the same name on the same corner today. Street View

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004

7 and 8 Stoney Street

Played the Leaky Cauldron entrance and the Third Hand Book Emporium, Diagon Alley, the films' present day

A red brick Victorian building with arched windows beside the market's glass and steel canopy, on Winchester Walk at the market's edge. A brick frontage near the market rather than the two shopfronts themselves, which is the Street View beside it.

The Leaky Cauldron's entrance moved to 7 Stoney Street for this film, with the neighbouring shop at number 8 dressed as the Third Hand Book Emporium when the Knight Bus arrives. Both storefronts sit beneath the railway bridge at the edge of the market. Street View

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, 1998

13 and 15 Park Street

Two storey brick shopfronts on Borough High Street under a tall brick side wall carrying a painted historic sign. A plain brick frontage of the kind Park Street carries rather than the two addresses themselves, which is the Street View beside it.

Eddie's flat above 15 Park Street and Dog's place next door at number 13 were both used as the gang's hideout. The same plain brick frontages still line the street opposite the market today. Street View

What Borough Market can double for

Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Reading Terminal Market is a market hall built under its own 1893 iron train shed, so the trusses, columns and stalls sit together in one frame exactly as they do at Borough Market. Both are still working food halls rather than museum pieces, with produce and signage filling every aisle. American signage and much wider aisles give it away in a tight shot. Borough Market stands in as the London version and Reading Terminal as the Philadelphia one, so swap a few vendor signs rather than redress the whole hall. Try searching market hall under train shed now.

St George's Market in Belfast, Northern Ireland

St George's Market is a Victorian covered market hall from the 1890s, with iron columns and a glazed roof lighting long aisles of stalls in much the same way. It still runs as a working weekend market rather than a redevelopment, so stalls, produce and crowds are already there to shoot around. Belfast's ironwork is painted a different colour and its roof pitch is shallower, which shows in a wide shot from the aisle centre. Closer frames along one row of stalls hold the match better. Try searching Victorian covered market hall now.

Mercato Centrale in Florence, Italy

Mercato Centrale is an iron and glass market hall from the 1870s, with the same combination of exposed structure and ground floor stalls. The ironwork is more ornate and the aisles run under a single long span rather than several joined sheds, so it is a grander, more ornate cousin of Borough Market rather than a plain match. The painted ironwork and single tall span give it away in any wide shot, so tighter frames on one aisle of stalls work better for a straight swap. Try searching iron and glass market now.