Great Scotland Yard, Whitehall, WC2

You’ll have a tougher time than Harry does getting into the Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. On Great Scotland Yard, running between Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue, at the junction with Scotland Place, stood the red phone box containing the visitors’ entrance.

You guessed it. There is no phone box (come on, if King’s Cross Station can install half a shopping trolley, why has nobody turned this spot into a photo op?) – and notice how a second fake bridge was added to cover up the office door alongside.

On the same stretch of street, piled high with sandbags, Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) says his goodbyes to Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) before going off to war in Atonement.

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2007, dir: David Yates)
Atonement (2007, dir: Joe Wright)