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London Wall, E.C.2 - The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (Kevin Billington 1970)

2/3/2014

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German bombing in 1940 and 1941 made a large hole in the map of the City of London:
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Richard Widmark is, I think, running across that empty space in this scene from Night and the City (1950):
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From 1957 on, the London Wall development begin to fill that hole, and by the mid-60s the array of tower blocks and walkways each side of the street called London Wall had become a familiar feature of the cityscape:
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London Wall began to appear regularly in films around 1963. Below are images from ten films through the decade that used the location, beginning with Ladies Who Do (1963):
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Followed by That Kind of Girl (1963):
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Catch Us If You Can (1965):
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Life at the Top (1965):
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Three Hats For Lisa (1966):
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The Sandwich Man (1966):
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Blowup (1966):
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Sebastian (1968):
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Crossplot (1969)
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And The  Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970):
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For details on the London Wall development see this page from the Blowup Then and Now site.
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