Roads around The Queens pub in Crouch End are closed and parking is suspended this week while a Disney+ drama films on the streets — and the pub itself has shut until Tuesday.
Residents in Elder Avenue were sent location letters this month setting out the parking suspensions, and Crouch End councillor Luke Cawley-Harrison warned on the Crouch End Appreciation Society Facebook page of filming at The Queens, with highway closures and parking suspensions from Friday 13 to Thursday 19 November.
Further filming is scheduled to take place at and around The Queens for a Disney+ show in the next few days, with the closures and parking suspensions set out in the letters sent to residents on the affected streets.
The closures include the pavement at the corner of Topsfield Parade and Elder Avenue, shut from Friday 13 November to Tuesday 17 November, and road closures in Elder Avenue and Fairfield Gardens on Sunday 15 and Monday 16 November. Traffic management will be in operation on Topsfield Parade and Tottenham Lane on Monday 16 November while filming takes place outside the pub.
Parking bays are also suspended in Tottenham Lane, Elder Avenue, Middle Lane, Fairfield Road and Weston Park for the duration of the shoot.
The Queens itself will be closed from Friday 13 to Tuesday 17 November, reopening as normal on Wednesday 18 November. In a post on Instagram, the pub told customers: “In the meantime, our neighbours will look after you.”
Local councillors Imad Ahmed, Luke Cawley-Harrison and Fiona Orford-Williams said they would ask the production company for a local donation for the inconvenience caused to the area.
The name of the project has not been revealed. Disney announced on 10 November that principal photography is underway in the UK on Mosquito, a six-part comedy-drama starring Nicholas Hoult and Daisy Edgar-Jones. The series, a Hulu Original written by Oscar-nominated and Bafta-winning writer Tony McNamara, follows a recently married couple played by Hoult and Muswell Hill-raised Edgar-Jones, whose secrets begin to unravel as daily life chips away at the personas they present.
Edgar-Jones was raised in nearby Muswell Hill, a short distance from where the cameras are now rolling — a local connection for a production that has brought Hollywood to a Crouch End street corner.
The Queens is no stranger to the spotlight. The Grade II* listed pub is a grand Victorian building which reopened in June after a revamp by new owners Urban Pubs and Bars. It boasts original interiors from the golden age of Victorian pubs, including intricate mahogany woodwork, plaster ceilings, a circular central bar and unusual art nouveau stained glass.
London has long been a draw for film crews. A hidden gothic mansion near the capital recently opened its doors to film crews, and productions regularly take over streets across the city. For residents, though, the trade-off is a week of disruption around one of Crouch End’s best-known corners.
It is not the only road closure Londoners are navigating this week. Green Lanes in Palmers Green was closed in both directions after an overnight crash, with a detour in operation.
For now, the advice for anyone heading to Crouch End is to check before travelling: the closures run until Thursday, the parking suspensions cover five streets, and The Queens — usually the first port of call — is dark until Wednesday.
Once the cameras leave, the suspensions lift. The Queens reopens on Wednesday, a day before the closures end on Thursday, and the streets around Broadway Parade return to normal. Until then, the pub’s regulars will have to find their pint elsewhere — while the neighbours, as the pub put it, look after you.
