🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Beckton Gas Works
major London gasworks
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · 51.5159, 0.0720
Beckton Gas Works is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 3 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.
“Scenes were filmed in Cambridgeshire, the Norfolk Broads, in East London at Millennium Mills and Beckton Gas Works in Newham and on the Isle of Dogs.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Beckton Gas Works as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- Full Metal Jacket 1987
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For Your Eyes Only
1981
“The pre-credits sequence used the churchyard of the Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire as a cemetery, while the helicopter scenes were filmed at the abandoned Beckton Gas Works in London.” Wikipedia
- Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984
Named here by Beckton Gas Works’s own Wikipedia article
Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Beckton Gas Works, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.
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Full Metal Jacket 1987
“In the film, Dickson drives Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe to an apocalyptic wasteland, the scenes of which were filmed at Beckton, very close to the same area used in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket.” Wikipedia
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For Your Eyes Only 1981
“The opening sequence of the 1981 James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only was filmed here.” Wikipedia
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Beckton Gas Works?
3 productions are recorded as filmed at Beckton Gas Works, including Full Metal Jacket (1987), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). 3 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Beckton Gas Works?
Full Metal Jacket (1987), covered by 63 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Beckton Gas Works?
Beckton Gas Works is in the United Kingdom, at 51.5159, 0.0720.
What other filming locations are near Beckton Gas Works?
The Fountain Studios, Grosvenor Square, Tower of London, Battersea Power Station and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Graham Smith from England, CC BY 2.0.