CREDITS LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, 1998 dir: Guy Ritchie Nick Moran Jason Flemyng Jason Statham Steven Mackintosh Vinnie Jones Sting PH Moriarty Alan Ford

“Can everyone stop gettin' shot?”

Before his laddishness became terminally irritating, Guy Ritchie assembled this great black comedy from bits of Performance, The Long Good Friday, Pulp Fiction and The Italian Job among scores of other movies.

Eddie (Nick Moran) and Bacon (Jason Statham) leg it down the rather intimidating steps to the railway bridge at the end of the tunnel on Pedley Street after the law descends on their street stall scam at the opening. The stretch of cobbled street in front of the arch is where the Young Gangster (Paul Bettany) drops a taxi onto the recalcitrant debtor in Gangster No. 1.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels location: Eddie and Bacon escape from the law: Pedley Street

The gang’s hang-out, also used in that other slice of seedy London low life, Howards End, is 15 Park Street, SE1, a wonderfully undeveloped street opposite Borough Market. Dog’s place, next door, is 13 Park Street. You can see the same neighbourhood in The French Lieutenant's Woman, the Sean Connery-Catherine Zeta-Jones thriller Entrapment, Bridget Jones's Diary and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels location: “JD's’ bar: Vic Naylor, St John Street, Smithfield

‘JD’s’, the bar owned by Eddie's dad (Sting), is Vic Naylor, 40 St John Street, Smithfield, EC1.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels location: Winston’s dope business: Stables Market, Camden

Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, Camden, NW1, is where Winston (Steven Mackintosh) runs a sadly low-security dope business. Just inside the Chalk Farm Road entrance, on the left, you can see the metal staircase up to the dope den (it now leads up to the toilets of bar Cuban), where the lads take an unfortunate traffic warden along for the ride. The den itself is another warehouse opposite.

The Royal Oak, 73 Columbia Road at Ezra Street in the heart of the famous Columbia Road flower market, became ‘Samoan Jo’s’, the South Seas theme pub where Bacon is served, not a refreshing drink, but a bleedin’ rainforest. It was also the local ‘East End’ boozer in David A Stewart’s Honest, and the pub, belonging to the Maltese boys, shot up by The Krays. The Royal Oak was also the time-warping local in UK TV sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels location: The disastrous three-card-brag game: Repton Boys Club, Cheshire Street, Bethnal Green

Repton Boys Club, Cheshire Street at Ramsey Street, where the boxing-mad Krays once worked out (though it's not seen in The Krays), is the site of the catastrophic 3-card-brag game (as well as Terence Rigby’s boxing club, where he’s quizzed by US cop Harvey Keitel in Danny Cannon's 1993 The Young Americans).

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels location: The office of ‘Hatchet’ Harry, porn king: Blackman's Shoes, Cheshire Street

Only a few hundred yards away, Blackman’s Shoes, 42-44 Cheshire Street, on the corner of Grimsby Street, is the exterior of ‘Hatchet’ Harry’s office (“Harry Lonsdale: Porn King”). The wood-panelled interior, though, is Bethnal Green Town Hall, Cambridge Heath Road at Patriot Square. The same office became Benicio Del Toro’s tailor’s in another Guy Richie film, Snatch. With a bit of dressing, it was also transformed into the glamorous deco office of “Bijou’ record company supremo Eddie Izzard in Velvet Goldmine. You can see the wood panels again, in the police station, in Julian Simpson’s 1999 conspiracy thriller The Criminal ‚ which also features the Town Hall’s austerely deco entrance hall and exterior ‚ and in I Capture the Castle.

Oh, and conveniently, this frequently-seen location happens to house the London Film Office.

The country house robbed by the inept Scousers is Dorney Court, a Tudor manor house near Maidenhead in Berkshire. It was also the home of the Earl of Arundel in Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth, with Cate Blanchett as the Virgin Queen, the house of explorer John Speke in Bob Rafelson’s 1989 Mountains of the Moon, and the country estate where Amanda Donohue is (apparently) murdered by John Hannah in Rob Walker’s 2000 Circus.