The twin lock on the Regent's Canal, with a cast iron roving bridge and market halls of brick and cast iron.
What Camden Lock looks like
is the only twin lock in London, with two chambers side by side and an island platform between them. A cast iron roving bridge crosses the canal diagonally just west of the lock, its parapets deeply scored with rope marks. Weeping willows hang over the bridge.
Camden Market flanks one side of the lock, with stalls under green corrugated roofs and a three storey hall of brick and cast iron, built in 1991 in the style of the nineteenth century. Inside, the cast iron arches with ornate spandrels carry a glazed roof. Lanterns hang beneath it.
sits north of the lock, with stalls in railway viaduct arches and two four storey buildings at its back. is a pedestrian-only road.
Narrowboats moor along the basin beside the stalls. Camden High Street crosses the canal on a cast iron girder bridge that is listed like the lock.
About 630 metres south-west of the lock, the canal reaches Cumberland Basin. A red pagoda restaurant boat is moored there among narrowboats, and an arched iron footbridge crosses the water.
Shot in Camden Lock
Spectre and the BBC One drama The Interceptor are both on the Canal and River Trust's list of productions filmed at Hampstead Road Lock. Marvel's The Eternals also shot at the lock, in January 2020.
Camden Lock
The lock, the market basin and the towpath beside it, with the Cumberland Basin photographs about 630 metres south-west.
The Eternals, 2021
Camden Lock
Kit Harrington was suspended on stunt wires above the lock during the overnight shoot in January 2020. Sections of Camden High Street and Chalk Farm Road were set to close from 9pm to 6am between 19 and 24 January, and Chalk Farm Road was to be shut between the canal and the rail bridge.
Spectre, 2015
Regent's Canal towpath beside Camden Lock Market
A fan account places the boat sequence on the towpath, where the boat turns left under an archway opposite the Holiday Inn. The same account says none of the lock itself can be seen in the final film, and that CGI helped build the setting.
Four railway viaducts cross the canal basin at Castlefield, where the Rochdale and Bridgewater canals meet. One is a red brick viaduct of 1849 with a cast iron arch bridge over the Rochdale Canal. The Great Northern warehouse is 81 by 66 metres and steel framed, far larger than anything at the lock, so a wide frame gives Manchester away. Try searching railway viaducts over canal basin now.
Brick railway arches stand beside the terminus of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the towpath leads straight to them. Construction ran from 1866 to 1869. Wide frames take in two 2009 apartment blocks, Candle House at 23 floors and Watermans Place at 17. Keep the shot on one arch mouth. Try searching brick railway arches canal now.
