Appearances in Popular Culture
The centre is regularly used as a location for films, TV, photography and music videos including Alexei Sayle's Stuff, The Comic Strip, Crime Traveller, Gangster No. 1, the BBC’s skateboarders trailer and Egg Card’s guineapig advert.
- Jack Nicholson strolls along the concourse and down the main staircase (now demolished) in the 1975 film The Passenger.
- Mansun's music video for "Wide Open Space" was filmed at the centre.
- Lodger wrote a song dedicated to the building.
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