Beneath South London’s Wandsworth Bridge lies an uninviting and sinister-looking underpass. Despite its shabby appearance, it’s actually a cinematic landmark because of an appearance in the classic science-fiction film A Clockwork Orange. The underpasses were constructed in 1969 as part of the refurbishment of the Wandsworth Bridge. The bridge was built in the 1940s, in a mid-century brutalist aesthetic. In the early 1970s, the underpass was selected by director Stanley Kubrick to appear in A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick felt that the architecture would make a perfect backdrop to the film. The post-war Brutalist…
