15 Elder Street, Spitalfields, E1

The audacious opening of Todd Haynes’ Seventies-set Glam rock extravaganza Velvet Goldmine sees the infant Oscar Wilde being deposited on a ‘Dublin’ doorstep by aliens. Just north of Spitalfields Market, you can find the supposedly Irish doorway at 15 Elder Street, a tiny cobbled street off Folgate Street.

Trivia: across the street, at number 32, lived painter Mark Gertler, played by Rufus Sewell in the 1995 period drama Carrington.

Velvet Goldmine (1998, dir: Todd Haynes)