Royal Eagle Hotel, 26-30 Craven Road, W2
Paddington Station is surrounded by seemingly endless streets of anonymous hotels, some grand, some rather faded. The Edinburgh boys from Trainspotting might be expected to fetch up in King’s Cross when they find themselves with two kilos of skag to offload, but it’s here, amid the shabby anonymity of Bayswater, that they make a cool £16,000.
Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) leads the “small-time wasters with an accidental big deal” out of Smallbrook Mews across Craven Road, in an homage to the Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover, to the Royal Eagle, where they meet dealer Keith Allen.
Empty and dilapidated at the time of filming, the five grand Victorian houses which make up the hotel have been totally renovated and spruced up into what is now a classy establishment.
Trivia: the hotel interior was filmed in the George Hotel, Buchanan Street in Glasgow.
Trainspotting (1996, dir: Danny Boyle)
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