3 Fournier Street, Spitalfields, E1

The dilapidated look of Fournier Street belies its position as the current centre of Britart, being longtime home to Gilbert & George and, more recently, to Tracey Emin.

3 Fournier Street, almost alongside the famous Ten Bells pub, was transformed into the hairdressing salon where Dil (Jaye Davidson) works in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game. The Georgian terraced houses of the area are a national treasure. Fortuitously saved from redevelopment by the poverty of the area, they’re now up for grabs and renovation as the area is relentlessly gentrified.

Trivia: the area is Jack The Ripper territory, and you're likely to bump into one of the many ‘Ripper’ walking tours – two of the victims were seen in the Ten Bells pub, on the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street, shortly before they were killed. In the less sensitive Seventies the pub was renamed the Jack The Ripper. It was recreated in the studio in Prague for the Hughes brothers’ From Hell.

The Crying Game (1992, dir: Neil Jordan)