Holmes Chapel · Cheshire10 nails · 10 places
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Holmes Chapel · Cheshire
School years · Selkirk Drive
At Holmes Chapel Comprehensive he sang lead in a band called White Eskimo, which won a local battle of the bands.
Born in Redditch on 1 February 1994, he moved as a child with his parents and his sister Gemma to Holmes Chapel in Cheshire.
As a teenager he also delivered newspapers and mucked out stalls at a stable.
A working school: see it from Selkirk Drive and don’t go in. The photograph is the village centre, not the school.
2010 · Macclesfield Road
At sixteen he took a part-time job at the W. Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel.
He worked there after school and on Saturdays; in 2024 a life-size cut-out of him in his uniform stood in the shop. Its owner remembered him as a really nice lad, easy and down to earth.
More than 5,000 fans came to the village in 2023, close to its population of 6,700.
A working village bakery: go in and buy something. Be kind to the queue and the staff.
2013 · A535
The viaduct appears in the 2013 documentary One Direction: This Is Us, where he writes his name on it.
The Independent calls it the 180-year-old viaduct where he had his first kiss. Fans leave messages on slate hearts bought from a shop in the village.
In June 2024 the village launched a guided walk taking in the bakery and the viaduct.
A working railway viaduct over a busy road. Look from a safe spot by the roadside; never climb the structure or stand in the road. The village’s guided walk takes you there.
Wembley Arena · 22–23 July 2010
Bootcamp began on 22 July 2010 at Wembley Arena. He did not make the Boys category; with four other eliminated soloists he was put into a five-piece group on 23 July 2010.
Styles came up with the band’s name: One Direction.
On 11 April 2010 he auditioned for the seventh series of The X Factor as a solo singer. The arena opened in 1934 as the Empire Pool, built for the British Empire Games.
Still a working arena, now called OVO Arena Wembley, next to the stadium. Go in on a show night.
Pictured: the five on The X Factor Live tour in Glasgow, April 2011, nine months after bootcamp.
Wembley Stadium · 2014 and 2022
2014: One Direction, three nights.
One Direction played Wembley Stadium three nights running from 6 June 2014 on the Where We Are Tour, to 236,566 people.
Pictured: One Direction a week earlier on the same tour, at Sunderland, May 2014. Where We Are was the highest-grossing tour of 2014.
In 2026 he returned for twelve nights on the Together, Together tour, which is due to end here on 28 August 2027.
Walk up Olympic Way from Wembley Park station; inside on match and concert days, or on the stadium tour.
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Port Antonio · Highbury · Malibu · 2016–2020
After One Direction went on hiatus, the solo records were written a long way from Cheshire.
Pictured: the opening of his first solo tour, September 2017.
Autumn 2016 · Jamaica
Part of his first solo album was made at the Gee Jam Hotel recording studio in Port Antonio, where he and his team spent a two-month writing retreat in autumn 2016.
Sign of the Times was conceived in Jamaica and written and recorded in three hours.
The hotel sits in rainforest at the foot of the Blue Mountains, looking over the sea at Port Antonio.
A hotel with a recording studio on the hill above San San Bay. You can stay; the studio is for guests who book it.
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13 May 2017 · Highbury
On 13 May 2017, the day after his first solo album came out, he played a surprise concert here.
His first solo single, Sign of the Times, went to number one in the UK.
A working music venue by Highbury & Islington station. Go in on a gig night.
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2019–2020 · Malibu
Fine Line, his second album, was recorded at Shangri-La in Malibu. Late Night Talking was the first song written for Harry’s House, on the day the band and producers arrived at Shangri-La.
His producer Kid Harpoon says the team began Harry’s House with a month at Shangri-La during the pandemic.
The Band converted the ranch into a studio in the 1970s; Rick Rubin bought it in 2011.
Named, not mapped. A private working studio, owned by Rick Rubin: it is named, not mapped. Zuma Beach below it is public.
Madison Square Garden · Campovolo · 2022–2023
20 August – 21 September 2022
In August and September 2022 he played 15 sold-out shows here on Love On Tour, from 20 August to 21 September. A permanent banner was raised inside the Garden to mark it; he was the third musician to get one.
In October 2021 he held a two-night Halloween costume party here, dressed as Dorothy Gale.
In 2026 he began a 30-night residency here on 26 August; Madison Square Garden lists shows on 21, 23 and 24 October.
Above Penn Station. In on a show night, or on the 60-minute Madison Square Garden Tour Experience.
22 July 2023 · Reggio Emilia
Love On Tour ran 22 months from Las Vegas on 4 September 2021 and ended here on 22 July 2023.
It earned $617.3 million, then the fifth-highest-grossing tour ever.
In December 2025 he posted Forever, Forever, a film of that last night ending with an untitled instrumental he played on piano.
An open-air concert ground by Reggio Emilia airfield; open on concert days.
Where it is now
The school, the bakery and the viaduct in Holmes Chapel are within about two kilometres of each other. In London, Wembley Arena and the stadium stand side by side; Highbury is across town on the Victoria line. The rest are trips of their own.
9 places you can visit, from Macclesfield Road to Campovolo. Shangri-La is a private studio, so it is named, not mapped.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working school: see it from Selkirk Drive and don’t go in. The photograph is the village centre, not the school.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working village bakery: go in and buy something. Be kind to the queue and the staff.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working railway viaduct over a busy road. Look from a safe spot by the roadside; never climb the structure or stand in the road. The village’s guided walk takes you there.
Selkirk Drive, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire
Born in Redditch on 1 February 1994, he moved as a child with his parents and his sister Gemma to Holmes Chapel in Cheshire.
A working school: see it from Selkirk Drive and don’t go in. The photograph is the village centre, not the school.
2 Macclesfield Road, Holmes Chapel, CW4 7NE
At sixteen he took a part-time job at the W. Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel.
A working village bakery: go in and buy something. Be kind to the queue and the staff.
A535, Twemlow Green, near Holmes Chapel
The viaduct appears in the 2013 documentary One Direction: This Is Us, where he writes his name on it.
A working railway viaduct over a busy road. Look from a safe spot by the roadside; never climb the structure or stand in the road. The village’s guided walk takes you there.
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The hotel in Port Antonio where the first album was partly written.
San San Bay, Port Antonio, Jamaica · See the site
Rooms, cabins and villas in rainforest above San San Bay, with the recording studio where the first solo album was partly written. Rates show only when you search dates. Pictured: San San.
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A 60-minute guided tour of the Garden, booked on the venue’s own site.
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Harry Styles (2017), Fine Line (2019) and Harry’s House (2022) on vinyl.
Harry Styles · 12-inch LP, Erskine/Columbia, 2017
The first solo album, partly written at Gee Jam in Port Antonio.
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Recorded at Shangri-La in Malibu.
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Begun at Shangri-La with Late Night Talking.
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Selkirk Drive, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire
Lead singer of White Eskimo, winners of a local battle of the bands.
2 Macclesfield Road, Holmes Chapel, CW4 7NE
At sixteen, a part-time job at the W. Mandeville Bakery.
A535, Twemlow Green, near Holmes Chapel
He writes his name on Twemlow Viaduct in One Direction: This Is Us.
Arena Square, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0AA (OVO Arena Wembley)
Out of the Boys category at bootcamp, he is put into a five-piece group and names it One Direction.
Wembley, London HA9
One Direction play Wembley Stadium three nights running.
Two sold-out Love On Tour nights at Wembley Stadium.
Highbury Corner, Islington, London N5
The day after the album comes out, a surprise concert at The Garage.
122 Northern Coastal Highway, San San Bay, Port Antonio, Jamaica
A writing retreat at Gee Jam for the first solo album.
Malibu, California, in the hills above Zuma Beach (a private studio, not identified here)
Fine Line is recorded here; Harry’s House starts here with Late Night Talking.
4 Pennsylvania Plaza, Manhattan, New York
He launches Pleasing, a skin and nail care brand.
Fifteen sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden and a banner in the rafters.
Campovolo, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Love On Tour ends at Campovolo.
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