Greetings from Hull
Welcome to Hullywood
While significant parts of Hull were bombed during WWII, and many lives tragically lost, its Old Town survived and has been well preserved. The historic buildings and cobbled streets make it an ideal stand-in for Victorian or Georgian London. These streets have been transformed many times by film and TV studios for productions including The Crown, Victoria and Blitz.
We came across a team dressing several streets for a film about Jack the Ripper. Modern features were being hidden and replaced by Victorian ones. There were market stalls being created, props such as crates and dummy food being added, and the cobbled street dirtied with grit and straw. The overall effect was very convincing, as you can see.
