A busy high street of brick shopfronts and Victorian terraces, with a corner pub that stood in for a Belfast bar in The Long Good Friday.
What Green Lanes looks like
The main road is a busy high street of ground-floor shops. Many are Turkish bakeries and grocers, with cafes and restaurants filling the gaps between. Above the shopfronts the frontages run two and three storeys, with bay windows and dormers in the roofs. Red brick and painted render both appear along the blocks.
A long stretch of the eastern side is called Grand Parade, and one of its buildings has a carved Green Man in a pediment. At the north end, the Salisbury turns the corner into St Ann's Road. It is a red-brick pub with three storeys and an attic under a slated mansard. Granite columns support its turrets, and the ground floor is Portland stone. It was built in 1898 and 1899.
West of the road, the streets form the Harringay Ladder. It is a grid of 19 streets of Victorian terraced houses, many converted to flats. Wightman Road has bay-fronted terraces and porches. on Wightman Road is a Modernist building among them.
The station sits just south of where Grand Parade begins. Its platform buildings were rebuilt in brick and concrete in the 1950s, and the street-level ticket office is now a cafe. nature reserve lies near the station, and is opposite Turnpike Lane station at the northern edge of the district.
Shot in Green Lanes
on Grand Parade has one film credit. Its interior was transformed into the Belfast pub Fagan's for The Long Good Friday.
The Long Good Friday, 1980
The Salisbury, Grand Parade
Played Fagan's, Belfast, Northern Ireland
The pub's interior was transformed for the film into the Belfast pub Fagan's. Scenes set in Northern Ireland were filmed there, and the mob's war with the IRA comes to a head in the bar. Street View
Greektown's Danforth is also a commercial strip of Greek restaurants and stores, and its street signs are in English and Greek. The Lanes' shopfronts already carry English, Turkish and Greek signs, so the swap is mostly a matter of replacing the Turkish lettering. A wide shot gives the road away through its yellow kerb lines, so those need dressing out. Try searching Greek restaurant strip now.
Greektown in Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's Greektown on Halsted Street is a social and dining district made up mostly of restaurants and businesses, much like the ground-floor shops the Lanes shows at street level. The fit is looser, since the Greek signage would have to replace the Turkish lettering along the whole Halsted Street stretch. Keep the frame on the shopfronts and off the rooflines, and dress out the Turkish lettering. Try searching Greek dining district now.
