Our New and Rediscovered Locations

This week we are promoting some of the New and Rediscovered locations that are on the Untibase.co.uk database. All of the locations are available for filming and photography. The three that are on show here is a real mix, but all have a sense of history. A hospital and London wharf building and a Castle. All with have seen many stories and now they lie waiting to play host to the production of new stories...

Royal Hospital Haslar
This hospital is screaming out for a large production to take the opportunity to use a massive and wide ranging location. Full of hospital and institutional style buildings, great for period productions. These are juxtaposed with modern areas, great for drama or feature films. Industrial buildings, town houses and office space are also on site, which outlines the scope that is on offer at this location.

Fantastic Riverside Location
Here is one of Unitbase.co.uk's other Rediscovered locations; this fantastic wharf building on the river Thames. Loads of our regulars will know this location well as it has been popular for the last two years, however, it still could be a great Dragons Den type location. Great views of the river along with traditional wooden beams and exposed brick provide bundles of character.

Castle in Bury St Edmunds
This castle in Bury St Edmunds is completely empty and an amazing and historic property. Surrounded by acres of grounds, plus some beautiful ornate gardens, this property has an amazing amount of possibilities for filming, photography or even bespoke events. The castle has a chapel, wood panelled rooms, large dining halls and an internal courtyard. All in all, it is a stunning location

Top Gear in a Spin at Westfield London

Unitbase.co.uk undertook a pretty big challenge last week, by getting the biggest car show on TV together with London's biggest indoor shopping Centre. When Top Gear called Unitbase.co.uk, instead of being worried about what Clarkson, May and Hammond would get up to, London’s leading location agency, revelled in the challenge. The BBC show needed a huge underground car park and Unitbase.co.uk needed not to look any further than there exclusive location; Westfield London.

Top Gear spent a full day at Westfield London filming stunt driving on the bottom floor of their huge underground parking facility! However instead of letting the three presenters behind the wheels of the old style Mini Coopers that were being featured, a group of stunt drivers took over the driving and performed power slides and hand brake skids! It was quite a spectacle and will look fantastic on screen when the popular car show returns to BBC2 later this year.

Westfield London have employed Untibase.co.uk for over a year as their exclusive filming and photographic agents and in that time there has been a multitude of fantastic productions have taken place at the centre! This production has to take the prize for most elaborate and was only made easier because of the great team people at Westfield London, as well as BBC’s Top Gear and Unitbase.co.uk. It all went off without a hitch!!

Unitbase.co.uk – We are looking for London’s underground secrets.

Finding hidden gems is always an exhilarating experience for any film location manager, scout or agent. Being led underneath London’s streets to un-earth tunnels, passageways and secret places is so exciting as the possibilities for new and interesting locations for films and T.V become apparent.

We have got some great underground locations already, but we want to find some more. This is a call for all of our regular readers to get in contact to tell us about the great underground locations that you all know about or have explored yourself. Now think of these in the next American Blockbuster or BBC drama, pretty cool, right?

Not only can these amazingly interesting places be used for filming, but if the location is right, then they can be used for live events and ‘experiences’ as well. Think about the next big brand looking for that something ‘extra’ when presenting to its customers and clients.

So, if you know of these underground secrets, or even if you have only heard rumours about these crazy underground places then get in touch. Just drop a line on our facebook or Twitter pages by searching for ‘unitbase’. We want to hear about the deepest darkest secrets of London, big, small, funny, scary....the lot!

Looking forward to hearing about some of these great locations...