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    A tour linking sites with one of Britain's greatest film directors is a must for silver screen aficionados. The trail includes a visit to the police station where Hitchcock was briefly held in a police cell as a young boy. In 2001 a HITCHCOCK GALLERY consisting of 17 mosaics, made from 80,000 glass tiles, was opened.

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    A tour linking sites with one of Britain's greatest film directors is a must for silver screen aficionados. The trail includes a visit to the police station where Hitchcock was briefly held in a police cell as a young boy. In 2001 a HITCHCOCK GALLERY consisting of 17 mosaics, made from 80,000 glass tiles, was opened.

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    The Hitchcock Trail

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    For silver screen aficionados, a tour linking sites with one of Britain’s greatest
    film directors is a must. Gerhard Weiss and Tony Fincham are your guides
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    As a child Alfred Hitchcock Walthamstow Museum
    St James Queen’s Rd
    loved travelling on trains and Street Rail
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    The information board gives
    details of Leytonstone High
    common cinematic theme of the
    innocent being pursued, for
    example in North by Northwest,
    2 HITCHCOCK GALLERY
    Enthusiasts have long
    bemoaned the lack of proper
    interest in trains, its location at
    Leytonstone station may seem
    appropriate, but the volume of
    Road’s history and indicates the The Wrong Man and Vertigo. acknowledgement for Leyton- passing pedestrian traffic can
    site of the police station where Opposite the Plough and Harrow stone’s most famous son. make it difficult to stand and
    Hitchcock was briefly held in a pub stood a Leytonstone Proposals for a Hitchcock fully appreciate the mosaics.
    police cell as a young boy, cinema, The Academy, opened in and early film museum
    apparently with consent of his 1913 and seating 1,100 people; have never been realised.
    father who wanted to teach him it is now demolished and However, in 2001 a
    a lesson. An incident which is replaced with a block of flats. Hitchcock Gallery
    said to have influenced his A little further on (619 High consisting of 17 mosaics,
    Road) The Premier Electric made from 80,000 glass
    Theatre was one of Alfred’s tiles, was opened. The
    boyhood cinemas, opening in mosaics mostly showed
    1910, and accommodating 700 scenes from his films, but
    people. It closed in 1961, well also an early photo of
    before the director’s death in Hitchcock on a horse
    1980. Leytonstone High Road outside his father’s grocery
    once had four cinemas. store. Given Hitchcock’s

    30 London Cyclist August-September 2010

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