Shaun Of The Dead, 2004
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visit London
London: Flights: Heathrow Airport; Gatwick Airport
Crouch End: rail: Crouch Hill or Harringay
New Cross Gate, SE14 (tube: New Cross Gate, East London Line)
Trivia
New Cross is where Gary Oldman grew up, and is the setting for his directorial debut Nil By Mouth.
Check out the subsequent Edgar Wright-Simon Pegg collaboration, Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead location: no longer ‘The Winchester Arms’: Monson Road at Barlborough Street, New Cross Gate, London SE14
Hold on! A British comedy that's (a) smart, (b) not written by Richard Curtis and (c) funny? Now that came as a surprise. Based on the simplest of premises: In a city packed with blank-eyed wage slaves and whacked-out clubheads, how long would it take us to notice the arrival of George A Romero’s lumbering, flesh-chomping undead?
It takes Shaun (Simon Pegg) quite a while, what with placating his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), defending his amiably slobby best mate Ed (Nick Frost) and pleasing his parents (the priceless Penelope Wilton and Bill Nighy).
Romero seems happy with the homage. Both writer-director Wright and star Pegg were rewarded with zombie cameos in Land of the Dead.
Shaun of the Dead location: Shaun’s flat: 83 Nelson Road, Weston Park, London N8
Shaun’s neighbourhood is north London, around Crouch End, where his flat is 83 Nelson Road at Weston Park, N8.
Shaun of the Dead location: zombies in the grocery store: Weston Park Grocery, Weston Park, London N8
Across the road, the local grocery store, where Shaun fails to notice anything, um, out of the ordinary, is Weston Park Grocery, 96 Weston Park.
Shaun of the Dead location: Liz ’s flat: Cunningham House, Hillcrest, Highgate N6
Also north London, in upmarket Highgate, you can find Liz’s apartment block, which is Cunningham House, Hillcrest, off North Hill, N6 .
Shaun himself works in an electronics store on High Road, North Finchley, and his parents live at 37 Abbots Gardens, East Finchley.
Shaun of the Dead location: ‘The Winchester Arms’: The Duke of Albany as it was before redevelopment: Monson Road, New Cross Gate, London SE14
Odd, then, that he has such a trek down to his beloved local boozer, ‘The Winchester Arms’. The pub is way across the city, south of the Thames, in New Cross Gate. It’s – or rather, it was – the Duke of Albany, 39 Monson Road at Barlborough Street, SE14. Since filming, the pub closed down and has been remodelled and converted into flats.
