Part of the London Underground has been spotted in Grimsby, as the port was transformed into 1940s London for filming the Netflix sci-fi series Bodies.
Aldgate East tube station in Grimsby (c) Associated British Ports
The port was taken over for filming for a month last year as the location saw the transformation of one building into Aldgate East tube station, while other buildings were also transformed into period shops and houses.
The eight-part series follows four detectives across different time periods, all trying to solve the same murder and features a cast that includes Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit), who shot his scenes on the Port of Grimsby last May.
The limited eight-part series Bodies aired on Netflix on 19th October.
Simon Bird, Regional Director of the Humber said: “It’s great to see our Port of Grimsby being used by film and television production companies. The historic quarter is attracting a lot of interest from location managers and producers who like the authenticity and character of the place. We hope this is the start of a new venture for the area.”
If you want to see it, the film location in the photo above is on Cross Street.
And, this is what the real Aldgate East station looked like in 1944.
Grimsby filming location (c) Associated British Ports
The port over the years has already hosted many productions from an episode of Wheeler Dealers last year when Mike Brewer and Elvis toured round in a renovated Ford Transit van to the film Three Day Millionaire about a group of fishermen who stage a robbery; to Atonement when it featured as a French town.
Good show. Shame about all the historical errors (electric street lamps in the east end in 1890, the use of “E” postcodes in 1890, sugar sweets being sold without rationing in 1941 etc etc).
It’s not a documentary, it’s a time travel story — nit picking about historical accuracy in a science fiction story really isn’t necessary.
I liked the Halogen headlamps on the 1940’s vehicles!
Some of these details aren’t errors! Sweet rationing started on 26 July 1942. Aldgate has been in London E since the 1858 (and E1 since 1917). The London postal districts went 12 miles out, and covered a lot of places that didn’t become London until over a century later – Rowland Hill (who devised the districts) and Anthony Trollop (who revised them in 1866) were a long way ahead of local council reorganisation.
It’s like the ghastly fake, smarmy, oleaginous series: “Call the Midwife” – of which I saw part of one episode on a pub “box”.
The buildings, supposedly during/after WWII were CLEAN!
You’ve dismissed an entire long-running popular TV show based on watching a small part of just one episode.
Dreadful – it’s almost like it’s not a documentary after all. Next time I’m at Longcross, I’ll let them know
Yeah because the production company is going to spend good money on making them dirty which would make zero difference to the story or the viewers enjoyment of it.