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Leadenhall Market, a gorgeous piece of architecture.

No surprise part of Harry Potter was filmed here.

" The entrance to ‘The Leaky Cauldron’ was an empty shop, now an optician store – The Glass House, 42 Bullís Head Passage in Leadenhall Market in the City of London (it’s just beneath the famous Lloyd's Building).

The market itself has been a frequent film location. Within the market, The Lamb pub was the site of the raucous pub brawl in John Wayne's only English movie, Brannigan. More recently, Angelina Jolie zoomed through the arcade on her motorbike in Lara Croft – Tomb Raider, while Russell Crowe enjoyed a Chinese meal here in Proof of Life."

And the history of the place...

"A meat and fish market occupied a series of courts behind the grand lead-roofed mansion of Leadenhall on Leadenhall street in the 14th century. It was an established meeting place of the Poulterers as early as 1321, whilst the Cheesemongers from the countryside were bound in 1397 to take their produce into the market of Leadenhall.

In 1408 the occupational leasehold title of the Manor of Leadenhall was assigned to Richard Whittington (the Lord Mayor of the time) and citizens of London, and the freehold was conveyed in 1411 to the City of London. The market continued to be used for the sale of fish, meat, poultry and corn, although in 1666 portions of the market were destroyed by the Great Fire. In 1881 the City's architect, Horace Jones, designed the present wrought iron and glass-roofed buildings.