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40 years of My Beautiful Laundrette: how the London locations look today

Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke, My Beautiful Laundrette broke major ground in its bold exploration of race and sexuality in the Thatcher era. Forty years on, what’s become of the laundrette and the other London locations?

By Adam Scovell

40 years of My Beautiful Laundrette: how the London locations look today
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