Editing Elephant and Castle (section)

==In popular culture==
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* A "Fancy Toy Dog Show" is held at Elephant and Castle in 1834.<ref>{{cite book |title=The World of Show Dogs and Dog Shows |first=Bo |last=Bengtson |year=2012 |publisher=Fox Chapel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_asKBgAAQBAJ&q=dog+show+elephant+1834&pg=PA30 |isbn=978-1620080535|access-date=22 January 2019}}</ref>
* On 19 October 1856, during the first sermon by [[Charles Spurgeon]] at the [[Surrey Music Hall]], seven were killed in a stampede and many injured.
* ''Don John of Seville,'' a blank verse work by [[Edgardo Colona]] was first performed at the Elephant and Castle Theatre in 1876.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1UM5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA411&dq=edgardo+colonna William Davenport Adams, ''A Dictionary of the Drama,'' 411]</ref>
* In her 1929 book, ''[[A Room of One's Own]]'', [[Virginia Woolf]] says of her fictional sister of Shakespeare, Judith, that "She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle."
* On 26 October 1932, the BBC's home service broadcast a performance by Quentin Maclean from the organ of the Trocadero cinema. Maclean had been Chief Organist there since 1930.<ref name=Radiotimes>{{cite news |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/565b9080c05a4a2ea3e208facf18f0b5 |work=Radio Times |title=Issue 473, Southern |date=23 October 1932}}</ref>
* In the early scenes of the 1944 musical film [[Champagne Charlie (1944 film)|Champagne Charlie]], the hero Joe Saunders and his brother Fred arrive in London from Kent, and go to the Elephant and Castle pub, the haunt of [[Tom Sayers]], a leading boxer. While his brother, an aspiring boxer, is having a trial bout with Sayers, Joe Saunders is persuaded to sing a song to entertain the bar's customers.
* In 1949, [[R.C. Hutchinson]] published ''Elephant and Castle: A Reconstruction'', a fictionalised account of his investigation into a murder that took place in the area in 1938.
* Photographer [[Bert Hardy]]'s documentary series on the area was published in ''[[Picture Post]]'' magazine, under the title 'Scenes From The Elephant' on 8 January 1949. They depicted everyday life in the area.
* There is a short film, from 1953, about the demise of London's trams, entitled ''[[John Krish|The Elephant Never Forgets]]''. The elephant shown alongside the title is the model elephant from the Elephant and Castle. Although trams ran across all of London, the film focuses on south London.
* In 1971, Unity Hall published ''Emily, A Biography of the Moroccan Princess from the Elephant and Castle'', which tells the story of Emily Keene. {{ISBN|028562010X}}
* The music video for the 1982 song ''[[Come on Eileen]]'' by the [[Dexys Midnight Runners]] was filmed on Brook Drive and Hayles Street, then known as Austral Street and Holyoak Road.
* The 2000 book ''Elephant Boys, Tales of London and Los Angeles Underworlds'', by Brian McDonald, tells the story of the author's family. {{ISBN|9781840182958}}
* Hannibal House was the location for the influential Macpherson Inquiry into the [[murder of Stephen Lawrence]], ordered in 1997,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stephen Lawrence Day: We want to give a young person a chance, in Stephen's memory |url=https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/2021/04/22/stephen-lawrence-day-we-want-to-give-a-young-person-a-chance-in-stephens-memory/|access-date=24 April 2021 |website=The Voice |date=22 April 2021|language=en}}</ref> and of the inquiry into the [[Murder of Victoria Climbié]] in 2001.
* On Christmas 2002, performance artist [[Mark McGowan (performance artist)|Mark McGowan]] rolled along the pavement from the Elephant and Castle to Gallery 1,000,000&nbsp;mph in [[Bethnal Green Road]], a distance of four and a half miles, wearing yellow rubber marigold cleaning gloves and singing ''[[We Wish You A Merry Christmas]]''. He did this in an attempt to "get people to be kind and polite to cleaners for Christmas",<ref name=BBCartistrolls>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2571847.stm |work=BBC News |title=Artist rolls with it |date=13 December 2002}}</ref> inspired by a time he had worked as a cleaner and had not received a kind comment or a thank you.
* Scenes for the 2002 BBC sitcom ''[[15 Storeys High]]'' were filmed in the shopping centre, featuring notably the bowling alley and the Sundial restaurant.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://todayuknews.com/entertainment/tributes-pour-in-for-comedian-sean-lock-who-has-died-of-cancer-at-the-age-of-58/ |work=Today UK News |title=Tributes pour in for comedian Sean Lock who has died of cancer at the age of 58 |date=18 August 2021}}</ref>
* A lead character of the 2003 BBC sitcom ''[[The Crouches]]'', Natalie, played by [[Jo Martin]], managed Poundkickers, a discount store in the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
* ''[[The Walworth Farce]]'' is a 2006 play by Enda Walsh set in a council flat on the Walworth Road.
* Part of the action of the 2007 film ''[[The Contractor (2007 film)|The Contractor]]'' is set in a safe house in Elephant and Castle (at the fictitious address 1212 Statton Road), though the filming does not appear to have taken place in the area.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
* In December 2007 Hollywood actress [[Daryl Hannah]] made a surprise visit to Perronet House. Her arrival made the front page of the [[South London Press]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150205204039/http://www.goodatmagic.com/ggmedia/gg_southlondonpress7dec07.pdf See a scan of the article here]
* Several scenes of the 2007 music video by [[David Guetta]] and [[The Egg (band)|The Egg]] ''[[Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)]]'' are shot in the Heygate Estate, featuring [[parkour]] performances by [[Daniel Ilabaca]]. 
* Some of contemporary artist and ornithologist [[Marcus Coates]]' work has focused on housing in Elephant and Castle, including a film (''Vision Quest – a Ritual for Elephant & Castle'') and an on-stage trance in 2009.<ref name=observereeandc>{{cite news |author=Tom Lamont |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/08/marcus-coates-artist-elephant-castle |title=Marcus Coates: 'Eventually something serious comes through' |work=[[The Observer]] |date=8 April 2012 |access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref> 
* In 2011/2012 social documentary photographer and university lecturer [[Paul Reas]] completed ''From a Distance'', a year-long commission on the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle in part of ''The Elephant Vanishes'' project, directed by Patrick Sutherland, for London College of Communication. He photographed people candidly, showing fraught and tense emotions (with the aid of an assistant with a [[Boom operator (media)|boom mounted]] flashgun); portraits; cans of incense intended to provide help under specific social pressures; and discarded furniture. The photographs were exhibited in 2012 and published by [[Photography and the Archive Research Centre]] (PARC) in ''Fieldstudy 16: From a Distance''.{{efn|''Fieldstudy 16'' is available [http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/6261/1/Fieldstudy_Distance3.pdf here] (PDF) within the UAL Research Online website.}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/oct/19/distance-utilitarianism-moral-architectural-fail |date=19 October 2012 |access-date=26 April 2014 |first=Giles |last=Fraser |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=Because it sees us from a distance, utilitarianism will always fail}}</ref>
* Despite some general opposition from residents to the estate being used as a dystopian backdrop on film, scenes for the 2011 British science fiction comedy horror film ''[[Attack the Block]]'', and for 2013 American action horror film ''[[World War Z (film)|World War Z]]'' were shot on the Heygate Estate.<ref name="Heygate">{{cite web |date=3 February 2012 |title=South London housing estate residents say no to film-makers |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16858535 |website=BBC News |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref>
* Some of the interior and exterior scenes of the 2013 British action thriller film ''[[Welcome to the Punch]]'' were filmed at London College of Communication in Elephant and Castle in August 2011.
* The 2011 novel by Matthew Fuller takes its names from the area and is set there. {{ISBN|9781570272257}}
* Several scenes of volume four of [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s ''[[Peter Grant (book series)|Rivers of London]]'' series, titled ''[[Broken Homes]]'' (2013), take place in a fictionalised version of the area, which also features on the cover of the book.
* The rock band [[The Maccabees (band)|The Maccabees]], who has its studio nearby, released its 4th album, ''[[Marks to Prove It]]'', on 31 July 2015, which pays tribute to the area.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33776415 |title=The Maccabees: Why we love Elephant and Castle |work=BBC News |date=4 August 2015 |access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref>
* Part of the action of the 2012 post-apocalypse novel ''Ice Diaries'' by Lexi Revellian, published by Hoxton Press, is set in [[Strata SE1]]. {{ISBN|0956642276}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Elephant & Castle Strata tower features in post-apocalyptic novel |publisher=SE1 Direct |url=https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/7132|access-date=2 March 2021}}</ref>
* ''[[Teddy]]'' is a 2015 musical set in the Elephant and Castle in London in 1956.
* The area gives its name to a 2017 screenplay by gay writer [[Samuel Bernstein]]. Elephant and Castle is also the name of the [[EastEnders]]-style soap opera starring the hero of the story. The screenplay won awards and citations at The British Independent Film Festival, the London Independent Film Awards and the New York International Screenplay Awards.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
* The images on both sides of [[Aphex Twin]]'s 2005 record ''[[Analord]] 11'' feature the [[Michael Faraday Memorial]]. In 2018, The artist also used [[stealth marketing]] to trail the release of his latest album by posting a logo associated with him in the corridors of the Tube Station.<ref name="twin"/>
* Scenes from the 2019 music video for the song ''London Mine'', by local girl [[Joy Crookes]], were shot in the shopping centre, and around the area, including the Walworth Road and Wansey Street.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
* The 2021 novel, ''The Elephant, The Oik and a Ginger Pussy'', by Richard Humphries in set in the area in the 1950s and 60s. {{ISBN|9798777421180}}