Stoney Street, SE1

The triple-decker Knight Bus trundles down Stoney Street in Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, where Octopus, alongside the Market Porter pub, was transformed into the ‘Third Hand Book Emporium’, and the door to the left, beneath the railway bridge, became the entrance to ‘The Leaky Cauldron’ (which, in its previous appearance in Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, was in Leadenhall Market).

Winchester Walk, running east from Stoney Street, became the scruffy little sidestreet, apparently only minutes from Piccadilly Circus, where wolfman David Kessler (David Naughton) is finally cornered and despatched in An American Werewolf In London. Also apparently in the West End is the tiny Jubilee Cafe, 14a Winchester Walk (easily missed, it’s in a car park on the south side of the street), where Johnny (David Thewlis) meets waitress Gina McKee, in Mike Leigh’s Naked.

It’s on Stoney Street, at, the western end of Winchester Walk, that US cop Harvey Keitel sees his British counterparts incinerated in their car in Danny Cannon’s The Young Americans.

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004, dir: Alfonso Cuarón)
An American Werewolf In London (1981, dir: John Landis)
Naked (1993, dir: Mike Leigh)
The Young Americans (1993, dir: Danny Cannon)