Portobello RoadLondon W111999
Hugh Grant William Thacker
Julia Roberts Anna Scott
Portobello Road · about a minute and a half
In the film William walks the market while summer turns to spring. Walk it yourself: four presses, four real stops. Every photograph here was taken in the season it stands for.
Summer
Portobello Road Market · Portobello Road, W11
Saturday crowds and stalls out in the sun.
In the film William walks down Portobello Road while a year passes, from summer to spring, in what looks like a single moving shot of about a minute and a half.
Monday to Wednesday 9am–6pm, Thursday 9am–1pm, Friday and Saturday 9am–7pm. Antiques on Fridays and Saturdays.
From Notting Hill Gate station · Saturdays 10.30am · adults £19
Two hours and about two miles on foot from Notting Hill Gate: the blue door, the bookshop that inspired the film and Portobello Road Market.
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Westbourne Park Road
Richard Curtis had lived there. The production designer, sent out to find William’s house, came back with one Polaroid of it, not knowing whose door it was.
The original door was later sold at auction, catalogued as having hung at 280 Westbourne Park Road.
A private home. It is not open, and it is not on our map. Look from the pavement and keep the step clear.
Her world
150 Piccadilly
Anna stays in the Ritz’s Trafalgar Suite, where William, passing himself off as a magazine journalist, interviews her.
The scenes were shot at night so guests were not disturbed, and the hotel’s head concierge, Michael de Cozar, appears in the film.
Snap the board. 15 to go.
A working hotel. Afternoon Tea daily from £95; jacket and tie for men.
19 Old Park Lane
Will and Anna’s dinner date was filmed at Nobu, 19 Old Park Lane.
A working restaurant. Dinner 6pm–10pm; book ahead.
The Strand
Anna’s press conference was filmed at the Savoy. The hotel opened in 1889.
A working hotel; the ballrooms are for events, so see the public bars and restaurants.
Piccadilly
A filming location: Anna’s suite in the film is the hotel’s Trafalgar Suite. 150 Piccadilly.
Check roomsPiccadilly · Daily, five sittings · from £95
Tea in the hotel where Anna stayed. Jacket and tie for men over 16.
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103 Notting Hill Gate
William goes to the Coronet to watch a film starring Anna. It opened as a theatre in 1898 and was the Coronet Cinema from 1923 until 2014. It is a theatre again, in a restored Grade II listed building.
A working theatre with a full programme of plays, dance and music. Book on the theatre’s site.
Rosmead Road
Locked. Residents only.
Hampstead · 6.7 km from Portobello Road as the crow flies
Kenwood is the film set where William visits Anna as she shoots a period film. Robert Adam remodelled the house in the 1760s and 1770s; it holds paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals.
Free; book online to be sure of entry. The house opens daily 10am–5pm, last entry 4.30pm.
Hampstead · Daily 10am–5pm · free, book to guarantee entry
The house on the Heath where Anna’s period film was shot, with Rembrandt and Vermeer inside.
Plan a visitContributors
Hugh GrantWilliam Thacker
Julia RobertsAnna Scott
Rhys IfansSpike
Richard CurtisWriter
Roger MichellDirector
Roger Michell directed and Richard Curtis wrote the film; Hugh Grant plays William Thacker and Julia Roberts plays Anna Scott.
Rhys Ifans plays Spike.
9 places you can visit. The house behind the blue door and Rosmead Gardens are private, and Shepperton Studios is a working studio: none of them is on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Monday to Wednesday 9am–6pm, Thursday 9am–1pm, Friday and Saturday 9am–7pm. Antiques on Fridays and Saturdays.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A shop on the market street: see the front from the pavement. Busiest on Saturdays.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An independent bookshop, open to browse and buy. Check the day’s hours with the shop.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working theatre with a full programme of plays, dance and music. Book on the theatre’s site.
Portobello Road, W11
In the film William walks down Portobello Road while a year passes, from summer to spring, in what looks like a single moving shot of about a minute and a half.
Monday to Wednesday 9am–6pm, Thursday 9am–1pm, Friday and Saturday 9am–7pm. Antiques on Fridays and Saturdays.
Portobello Road, W11
The front of William’s Travel Book Shop was filmed at 142 Portobello Road.
A shop on the market street: see the front from the pavement. Busiest on Saturdays.
13 Blenheim Crescent, W11
This shop, round the corner from Portobello Road, inspired the film’s bookshop.
An independent bookshop, open to browse and buy. Check the day’s hours with the shop.
103 Notting Hill Gate, W11
William goes to the Coronet to watch a film starring Anna.
A working theatre with a full programme of plays, dance and music. Book on the theatre’s site.
Stay
Two filming locations that take guests: the Ritz, where she has a suite, and the Savoy, where she faces the press.
Piccadilly
A filming location: Anna’s suite in the film is the hotel’s Trafalgar Suite. 150 Piccadilly.
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A filming location: Anna’s press conference was shot here. On the Strand since 1889.
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A Saturday walking tour from Notting Hill Gate, Kenwood on the Heath, and tea at the Ritz.
From Notting Hill Gate station · Saturdays 10.30am · adults £19
Two hours and about two miles on foot from Notting Hill Gate: the blue door, the bookshop that inspired the film and Portobello Road Market.
See the tourHampstead · Daily 10am–5pm · free, book to guarantee entry
The house on the Heath where Anna’s period film was shot, with Rembrandt and Vermeer inside.
Plan a visitPiccadilly · Daily, five sittings · from £95
Tea in the hotel where Anna stayed. Jacket and tie for men over 16.
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December nights in the old cinema, and the neighbourhood’s August weekend.
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Take it home
Richard Curtis’s screenplay, a reader’s edition, and the soundtrack with “Ain’t No Sunshine”.
Richard Curtis
The screenplay, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1999.
Find the bookAndy Hopkins
A Penguin Readers retelling of the film for English learners.
Find the bookVarious Artists · CD, Island, 1999
Elvis Costello’s “She”, Al Green and Bill Withers’s “Ain’t No Sunshine”.
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Portobello Road, W11
William walks down Portobello Road while the seasons turn from summer to spring, to Bill Withers singing “Ain’t No Sunshine”.
Portobello Road, W11
William’s bookshop: its front is 142 Portobello Road.
13 Blenheim Crescent, W11
A bookshop round the corner on Blenheim Crescent inspired William’s.
Westbourne Park Road, W11
William lives behind the blue door.
103 Notting Hill Gate, W11
William watches Anna in a film at the Coronet.
Rosmead Road, W11
Anna and William climb into a locked garden at night.
150 Piccadilly, W1
William interviews Anna in her suite at the Ritz.
19 Old Park Lane, W1
Will and Anna go out to dinner.
Strand, WC2
Anna’s press conference.
Leicester Square, WC2
The premiere of Anna’s film.
Hampstead Lane, NW3
William visits Anna on the set of her period film.
Shepperton, Surrey
The shop’s interior is a set at Shepperton Studios.
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