Adam Scovell

Adam Scovell is a writer and filmmaker from Merseyside, now based in London. He completed his PhD in music at Goldsmiths University in 2018, and is the author of Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange (2017, Auteur), alongside three novels all published by Influx Press.

Adam Scovell

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Then and now

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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