A white dockside pub with its own jetty faces a stone church across Rotherhithe Street, and a former print works nearby played Gotham's Iceberg Lounge in The Batman.
What Rotherhithe looks like
Rotherhithe Street runs along a bend in the Thames, narrow enough in places for a single line of traffic, with cars parked under trees on one side. Brick warehouses converted into flats stand alongside white rendered cottages, and newer apartment blocks rise behind the older rooflines.
pub stands on its own corner of the street, white walls and black timber trim under a gambrel roof. Hanging flower baskets line the ground floor windows. A wooden jetty of its own reaches out over the water, used as a beer garden. The building itself dates from a 1957 rebuild, though the black and white front looks older. stands directly opposite, a brick and stone building with a tower and spire, rebuilt in 1714 and 1715.
South of the church, the occupies a brick engine house with a tall chimney on Railway Avenue, beside the round brick shaft of the old tunnel entrance. stands a short walk along Rotherhithe Street, its name painted in large letters over the brick gable end. Further east, has its own sign painted across an upper floor of yellow brick, reading Mills and Knight Ltd.
A former granary on St Marychurch Street houses Sands Films, a costume and production company that also shoots its own films inside. Its loading doors and plain brick walls are otherwise unchanged.
Toward Surrey Quays, the former building keeps its corrugated metal roofline. The raised lettering of its newspaper years, Harmsworth Quays and the Daily Mail, is still on the wall. A chain link fence topped with wire runs around its loading yard.
runs along the river at the southern edge of the old village, a paved promenade above the tide line. Tower Bridge and the Shard are visible downriver, and the Canary Wharf towers show on the opposite bank upriver.
Shot in Rotherhithe
The Mayflower's corner has drawn the most productions, from the ITV series Dempsey and Makepeace to the crime series Death in Paradise. Rotherhithe Street itself, a short walk from the pub, appears in A Fish Called Wanda. St Mary's Church, across the road from the Mayflower, appears in New Tricks. The former Printworks building at the southern edge of the area has stood in for a fictional nightclub in The Batman and an illegal boxing venue in The Gentlemen.
Dempsey and Makepeace
The Mayflower
The ITV series Dempsey and Makepeace stops here for a drink in its first series. Its second series returns for a car chase and a shootout along Rotherhithe Street. The third series ends at Hope Wharf, a short walk down the same street.
Death in Paradise
The crime series Death in Paradise also uses the Mayflower. The pub's river-facing corner has a black and gold fascia under the hanging baskets, with its own jetty just beyond the frame.
A Fish Called Wanda
Hope Wharf
In A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline argue on the pedestrian stretch of Rotherhithe Street at Hope Wharf. The film's other nearby scenes, at St Saviour's Dock and Reed's Wharf, are across the boundary in Bermondsey rather than here.
New Tricks
St Mary's Church
The series New Tricks used St Mary's Church for a scene. The church's brick tower and stone spire rise on the south side, opposite the Mayflower across the street.
The Batman
Printworks
Played The Iceberg Lounge, Gotham City
The Batman used the former Printworks building as the interior of the Iceberg Lounge, the nightclub run by Oswald Cobblepot. The raised Harmsworth Quays and Daily Mail lettering from its newspaper years is still on the roofline.
The Gentlemen
The Netflix series The Gentlemen filmed an illegal boxing match at Printworks in its second episode. The gate shows the loading yard behind a chain link fence, with the Evening Standard and Metro lettering still on the wall.
Wapping has the same brick warehouse conversions and cobbled dockside streets, with the Prospect of Whitby standing in for Rotherhithe's own riverside pub. Many of Wapping's warehouses carry newer glass extensions on the river face, so shots need to stay on the street side to avoid them. Try searching brick warehouse conversions now.
Fell's Point in Baltimore, Maryland
Fell's Point has the same cobblestone waterfront streets and brick rowhouses down to the water's edge, at a similar small scale to Rotherhithe's own village core. Fell's Point's rowhouses are Federal style with white marble steps, easy to spot as American in a close shot, so wider harbor views hold the match better. Try searching cobblestone waterfront streets now.
Purfleet Quay in King's Lynn, Norfolk
Purfleet Quay's brick warehouses and granite quay steps sit at the same working waterfront scale as Rotherhithe's own quayside. The plainer buildings along the quay, away from the domed Custom House, match Rotherhithe's own warehouse scale. The domed Custom House itself is far grander than anything in Rotherhithe, so keep it out of frame and stay on the plainer quay buildings. Try searching brick warehouses quay steps now.
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