10B St Peter’s Street, Islington, N1

In 1967, playwright Joe Orton had virtually elevated the status of playwright to that of rockstar, gleefully baiting the establishment with such dark comedies as Entertaining Mr Sloane and Loot, when he was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell.

Twenty years later, when Stephen Frears made Prick Up Your Ears, with Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina as Orton and Halliwell, the Islington street on which the couple lived was no longer the scruffily rundown neighbourhood of Alan Bennett’s sharp script, and 10B St Peter’s Street, opposite Cruden Street, stood in for the house in which they shared a cramped flat.

Trivia: Only a few minutes’ walk away, 25 Noel Road (look up to the top floor to see the blue plaque) was the real house where the frustrated Halliwell, increasingly eclipsed by the charming and reckless Orton, finally snapped and bashed out the writer’s brains with a hammer.

Prick Up Your Ears (1987, dir: Stephen Frears)