Cultural References
- Spencer Gore Fireside scene at Mornington Crescent, Leeds city art gallery collection. Oil on canvas. Spencer Gore painted many views from his room at no 31, looking over the Crescent. Two are "Mornington Crescent, looking north-east", 1911 (Museum of London) and "Mornington Crescent, looking south" c. 1911 (John Quinn Collection). Both are reproduced in "London in Paint", by Galinou and Hayes, Museum of London 1996, pp. 356-358.
- William Hargreaves' song "The Night I Appeared as Macbeth" (1922) includes the lines "They made me a present/Of Mornington Crescent/They threw it a brick at a time".
- The band Belle and Sebastian have a song titled "Mornington Crescent".
- Iain Pears's novel Stone's Fall references an apparently fictional murder case called the "Mornington Crescent trial." The murderer is a man named William Goulding, who kept the head of his victim in a box under his bed.
- Painter Walter Sickert lived on the street in 1907, at the time of "the Camden Town Murder", and later renamed a group of his paintings The Camden Town Murder.
More recently, Mornington Crescent was used as a filming location for the films An Education and Brighton Rock.
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