CREDITS THE CRYING GAME, 1992 dir: Neil Jordan Stephen Rea Jaye Davidson Forest Whitaker Miranda Richardson Jim Broadbent Ralph Brown Adrian Dunbar

IRA man Fergus (Stephen Rea) becomes involved with the partner of the British soldier he was supposed to kill.

The opening Irish scenes were filmed on location at Laytown in South Armagh.

You won't be able to get your hair done at Dil’s salon; it was an empty building - now a shop –- at 3 Fournier Street in Spitalfields. For a long time the centre for immigrant communities – first Huguenot, then Jewish, it’s now the heart of Banglatown – and the undeveloped working class streets are ripe for gentrification.

Once a notorious slum district, this was the haunt of the Victorian serial killer and tabloid villain known to history as Jack the Ripper. You can hardly avoid bumping into – or you may even join – one of the endless stream of walking tours. You know the style – “A horrendous sight greeted his eyes...”.

A couple of doors from the Crying Game location is the Ten Bells pub, which was the haunt of many of the killer’s victims. The famous pub was replicated (on the outskirts of Prague) as a setting for From Hell, with Johnny Depp). Also included in the Hughes brothers' impressive recreation of 19th century Spitalfields, for their film of the graphic novel, was Nicholas Hawksmoor's Christ Church Spitalfields, across Fournier Street.

The interior of Christ Church is the body-strewn charnel house where Cillian Murphy is attacked by the Rage-infected priest in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later...

The ’Metro Bar’, where Dil sings the title song, was for many years the London Apprentice, a large and really quite frisky gay bar. It’s been relaunched as Mother, 333 Old Street (tube: Old Street, Northern line), a refreshingly informal (for increasingly style-conscious Hoxton) club. Its new incarnation is visited by Minnie Driver and Mary McCormack in caper comedy High Heels and Low Lifes.

The exterior, however, is an empty property behind the pub on the corner of the quaintly cobbled Coronet Street and Boot Street, Hoxton, N1. The ëMetroí logo was still visible until recently. The wasteland behind, where Fergus sorts out Dil’s problem, has since been built up.

The Crying Game: The exterior of the fictitious 'Metro Bar": Coronet Street, Hoxton, London N1

The gardens in which he skulks to watch Dil are in nearby Hoxton Square. Dil’s apartment, where the goldfish meet a sad end on the pavement, is 9 Hoxton Square.

Irish terrorist Jude (Miranda Richardson) spies on the couple at the old Clifton Restaurant, which stood at 126 Brick Lane, E1. It has since relocated.

Dil follows Fergus to the Lowndes Arms, which stood at 37 Chesham Street, SW1, northeast of Sloane Square. The pub has since closed down and been revamped as a private house. It’s opposite the ‘discreet knocking shop’ where the IRA carries out its bloodily bungled attack on the judge, at 100 Eaton Place.