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Sun Hill is a fictional
London suburb which is the setting forBritish police television drama series "The Bill ". Sun Hill is also the name of the Metropolitan Police Station at which the drama is based.Geoff McQueen , creator of "The Bill", claimed that he named Sun Hill after a street name in his home town ofRoyston, Hertfordshire .Location of Sun Hill suburb
The fictional Sun Hill suburb is located in the fictional
London borough of Canley in the East End, north of theRiver Thames . The Borough of Canley is approximately contiguous to the real-lifeLondon Borough of Tower Hamlets , and in the first few years of "The Bill", Sun Hill police station was actually stated as being located inWapping in Tower Hamlets. Sun Hill has aLondon E1 postcode, which corresponds to the real-life areas ofWhitechapel andStepney .Location of Sun Hill Police Station
Despite the name change to a fictional London borough, and various inconsistencies in the jurisdiction of the Sun Hill police within the borough, the actual location of the Sun Hill police station has remained surprisingly consistent over the programme's 22 year run.
The series is currently filmed in a purpose-built studio in an industrial estate in
Merton Park in a road called deer park road, actually in South West London. Prior to 1989, the set was located in a disused record company depot in Barlby Road, Ladbroke Grove, in North West London. The fictional location of the station, however, has remained as the original studio location for the first two years of "The Bill": on Pennington Street inWapping . Filming of the third series of "The Bill" in 1986 was halted when a huge industrial dispute took place in the newly-openedNews International printing plant. Such was the disruption in the area, and the antagonism of the strikers and protesters towards the police, even actors dressed as police, that the programme was forced to look elsewhere for a filming location.Fictionally, the address on the front board of the station is given as: 2 Sun Hill Road, Sun Hill E1 4KM.
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