The Sweeney

[NikkiB]

If you watch the Sweeney, London is teeming with wasteground, no doubt a legacy of WWII. How much of the capital is still like this?

[jno]

not a lot... I think the last official bomb site was at Ludgate Circus, and that went years ago. They might have done some filming in Docklands, which was derelict until more recently

[Postdog]

The Sweeney is from the seventies - you do realise that don't you?

[Top_Gooner]

The 70's it was indeed, and most of the filming was done out in the west of London around the Harrow Road and a lot in what became Docklands.

[NikkiB]

Postdog - yes, I know the show is from the 70's!
It's just that most of the locations, by accident or design, involve wasteground or crummy semi-derelict areas. I live on the south coast and am not overly familiar with London, apart from the Westend shopping areas. I wondered, as Top Gooner subsequently confirmed, if a lot of the filming of the programme was done in what is now the site of breadhead housing.

[KebabMeister]

There's still a lot of areas that are wasteland but not to the extent of the docklands area.

Have a look at Derelict London http://www.derelictlondon.com/derelict_london_ com.htm Scroll down the page and there's loads of different categories. Very interesting website!

[Memore]

that is being built up now in time for the 2012 olympics which will overspill from Stratford to Greenwich - they already finishing train extension of DLR