Gabriel’s Wharf, SE1

On Gabriel’s Wharf, in front of the Riviera Restaurant, 56 Upper Ground, you’ll find the bench on which Daniel (Liam Neeson), during a heart-to-heart chat, discovers that his distracted son (Thomas Sangster) is actually in love in Love Actually.

East along Queen’s Walk is the Oxo Tower Wharf complex, home to Mark (Andrew Lincoln), where he leaves Juliet (Keira Knightley) with the wedding video, in the same film. He leaves the flat from the rear entrance of the wharf building on Barge House Street, through the courtyard to Oxo Tower Wharf itself.

It’s on the pier here that Maurice (Oscar-nominated Peter O’Toole) recites Macbeth for an unappreciative Jessie (Jodie Whittaker) in Roger Michell’s film of Hanif Kureishi’s Venus.

Love Actually (2003, dir: Richard Curtis)
Venus (2006, dir: Roger Michell)