Plain brick warehouse fronts of three to five storeys on Curtain Road and Charlotte Road, with a railway viaduct over the streets at the southern end.
What Shoreditch looks like
runs from Old Street down to Great Eastern Street between plain brick warehouse fronts of three to five storeys, most of them from 1870 to 1910. Some still carry their loading doors. The ground floors are bars, cafes and shops now, with offices and design studios above them.
runs one block west, with the same fronts in yellow stock brick and narrow brick piers under carved stone brackets at pavement level. crosses both, and the workshop premises along these side streets sit lower than the warehouses. A few of them are houses with a hoist still over the door.
The railway crosses the southern end on a brick viaduct. At the yellow stock brick sits over blue engineering brick, with the bridge across the road behind it. is up on that viaduct inside a concrete box, and the walls along Braithwaite Street beside it are painted over with murals.
on Mark Street is one of the six Grade I listed buildings in the borough. Its walls are stock brick with red and blue dressings under tall slated roofs, and an octagonal bellcote stands over the nave. It holds offices now, and the Grade II listed former church school and clergy house sit beside it.
Charlotte Road and Rivington Street are ultra low emission streets. Between 7am and 10am and between 4pm and 7pm on weekdays a vehicle needs to emit less than 75g of CO2 per kilometre or carry a UV1 permit. Delivery and service vehicles cannot apply for that permit and have to arrive outside those hours.
Shot in Shoreditch
The Death of Stalin shot its concert hall scene inside at 380 Old Street. The Grade II listed front is Portland stone over a rusticated ground floor, with a square tower above the middle of it. It runs as a live events space now.
Eastern Promises, 2007
Anna rides up Curtain Road
David Cronenberg sent Naomi Watts north up Curtain Road on a motorbike, with the turning into Rivington Street on her right. The road runs one way northbound, and route 78 buses stand at a terminus on the same stretch.
What Shoreditch can double for
Northern Quarter in Manchester, Greater Manchester
Manchester's Victorian textile warehouses stand four and five storeys hard on the pavement line, with showroom floors behind the tall first floor windows. The blocks around Dale Street and Tib Street run at the same narrow scale, with bars and independent shops in the converted ground floors. Those warehouses are bigger and carry sandstone dressings and stone string courses across the brick, so a wide shot that takes in a full elevation gives the swap away. Work the cross streets and keep the camera below the second floor. Try searching victorian textile warehouses now.
Lace Market in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
The Lace Market is a quarter mile square of salesrooms and warehouses put up to store, display and sell lace, with the showrooms downstairs and the finishing floors under the big windows at the top. The streets around Stoney Street are densely packed and the ground floors are bars and restaurants now. Those buildings run four to seven storeys in red brick, so a yellow stock elevation of three or four floors will not hold a wide shot. Stay on doorways and tight corners. Try searching red brick lace warehouses now.
Digbeth runs under railway viaducts of Staffordshire blue brick, with brick factories and warehouses along them and murals painted across the walls. The former custard works off the High Street and the Bonser warehouse at 85 Digbeth are the two buildings to scout first. The roads there are much wider and the viaducts run for far longer, so a wide shot will not match. Hold the frame tight under an arch or against a painted wall. Try searching blue brick railway viaduct now.
