Passport to Pimlico: a behind the scenes tour – in pictures

A tube carriage replica used for filming the London Underground 'customs' scenes Photograph: StudioCanal

Actor John Slater (Frank Huggins) floats in a dinghy in the fictional 'Burgundy' lido Photograph: StudioCanal

Actor Stanley Holloway (Arthur Pemberton) relaxes on set Photograph: StudioCanal

Actors Jane Hylton (Molly) and John Slater (Frank Huggins) learn their lines Photograph: StudioCanal

Barbara Murray (who played Shirley Pemberton) on set, you can just make out the fictional street sign 'Miramount Passage' behind her Photograph: StudioCanal

Director Henry Cornelius (on the left) in a break from filming Photograph: StudioCanal

Filming continues on a rare dry summer's day – the film is set during the scorching summer of 1947, but was actually filmed during the monsoon summer of 1948 Photograph: StudioCanal

Filming with an old-fashioned crane Photograph: StudioCanal

Henry Cornelius directs the action Photograph: StudioCanal

Kids on set with the 'local bobby' PC Spiller played by Philip Stainton Photograph: StudioCanal

Philip Stainton takes a nap Photograph: StudioCanal

Passport to Pimlico was actually filmed in … Lambeth, in a cleared bomb site off the Lambeth Road. The pub you can see in this photo was the Union Flag, and is now the Corner Cafe on the junction of Lambeth Road and Hercules Road Photograph: StudioCanal

The set featuring a Pimlico street with fictional pubs and shops was built on a site that used to comprise Canterbury Place and Saville Place, SE11, bordered by Lambeth Walk and in the foreground, Lambeth Road Photograph: StudioCanal

The set as it was when completed Photograph: StudioCanal

Filming a scene on the Lambeth set. The film-makers had to make sure they dismantled everything and left the site as they found it, so as not to undermine the War Damage Compensation claims of the owners whose houses had formerly stood on the site Photograph: StudioCanal