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[Gillster]

Hi, can anyone tell me the location of the memorial garden in London where Jude Law took Natalie Portman at the start of the film and which Jude Law also visited at the end of the film?

Cheers

[clover]

I think it is called Watts Cloister and is to be found in Postman's Park which is near the church of St Botolph-without-Aldersgate in St Martin's le Grand just north of St Paul's Cathedral. The Cloister was erected "in Commemoration of Heroic Self Sacrifice" and within the shelter are to be found the lines of faience tablets seen in the film. These record acts of great heroism by named individuals who lost their lives in the course of saving others. The Cloister was the gift of the Victorian artist George Frederick Watts, and was opened in 1899.

[clover]

It is definitely Postman's Park. You can find lots of references on the web both to the Park and the plaque to Alice Ayres whose name was taken by Natalie Portman. See for example:

http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/postman.htm