Trinity Court, Grays Inn Road, WC1

Redeveloped to accommodate the terminus for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the area around King’s Cross Station had become synonymous with drugs and prostitution and, as such, was the lowlife setting of much of Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa (though the famous scenes of the prostitutes working the streets were actually filmed behind Liverpool Street Station).

From King’s Cross, down the east side of the dusty, unlovely stretch of Gray’s Inn Road past the Eastman Dental Hospital and St Andrew’s Gardens, you’ll find a striking, newly-restored blue and white art deco apartment block. Trinity Court was home to hooker Simone (Cathy Tyson), the impossible object of Bob Hoskins’ affection in Mona Lisa. Director Neil Jordan wanted the exterior of the place where she lived to have “a kind of Middle European quality to the architecture”, as well as a pair of parallel, open cage lifts, in order to stage the claustrophobic shootout with Anderson (Clarke Peters).

Mona Lisa (1986, dir: Neil Jordan)