Editing Hanwell (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Broadway cafe.jpg|thumb|right|"The Broadway Cafe" in ''Broken Lines'']]

Hanwell has been the filming location for a number of films and television programmes:

* ''Broken Lines'' (2008): From 7–14 July 2007 the ''Hanwell's First Choice Cafe'' on the corner of Hanwell Broadway was converted into the ''Broadway Café'' for this film, starring [[Paul Bettany]] and [[Olivia Williams]].<ref>Alex Hayes (12 July 2007). Film Stars Come to Hanwell. Ealing Times</ref>
*''[[Bridget Jones's Diary (film)|Bridget Jones's Diary]]'' (2001): Used [[City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell]] as one of its many London locations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_85.pdf|title=filmlondon.org|access-date=22 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927090422/http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_85.pdf|archive-date=27 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''Staggered'' (1994): Starred [[Martin Clunes]] as a man late for his own wedding. St Mary's was used for most of the church shots.<ref name="http://www.ealingfilmoffice.co.uk">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ealingfilmoffice.co.uk/ |title=Home |access-date=22 July 2007 |archive-date=29 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929153820/http://www.ealingfilmoffice.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''[[Shine on Harvey Moon]]'' (1993) for ITV television: This was a period drama series set in the 1940s. The funeral sequences were also filmed at St Mary's.<ref name="http://www.ealingfilmoffice.co.uk"/>
*''[[Peep Show (British TV series)|Peep Show]]'': The Dolphin pub (series three, episode four, now The Green W7) and the exterior and interior of St Mary's church for Sophie and [[Mark Corrigan (Peep Show)|Mark's]] wedding (series four, episode six).
*''[[Billy Elliot]]'' (2000): the top floor of the Hanwell Community Centre was used for filming the interior shots of the Everington Boys' Club, where Billy attends boxing and dance practices.
*''[[Extras (TV series)|Extras]]'': The Dolphin pub (now The Green W7). Internal shots twice during an episode starring David Bowie.
*''[[Brush Strokes]]'':  This 1980's TV series filmed in St Margarets Road and surrounding streets.
*''[[Carry On Constable]]'' (1960): Used many locations around [[Ealing]], with Hanwell Library serving for the exterior shots of their police station. St. Mary's was also used for exterior shots. Scenes were also filmed in York Road close to St Joseph's Primary school resulting in a cast visit to deter curious pupils from interrupting the filming schedule.  A disused factory some 200 metres North of the school was the location of the crooks' hideout.
*''[[Carry On Teacher]]'' (1959): The Maudlin Street School exterior scenes were shot at Drayton School, Drayton Grove, West Ealing.
* ''[[Birth of the Beatles]] '' (1979) The upstairs reception room in the Park Hotel in Greenford Road (now demolished) was used as the scene for The Beatles audition where they met Rory Storm and Ringo Starr. The disused Variety Theatre adjoining the pub was adapted to depict the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg. German graffiti added for the film remained until the pub was demolished in the mid-1980s.

===In literature===
"Hanwell" is often used instead of "[[Hanwell Asylum]]". Otherwise Hanwell may be referred to as a point of reference in the space.

{{blockquote|So, setting about it as methodically as men might smoke out a wasps' nest, the Martians spread this strange stifling vapour over the Londonward country. The horns of the crescent slowly moved apart, until at last they formed a line from Hanwell to Coombe and Malden.|from ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]] (1898)}}

{{blockquote|And I remember that as I lifted my head to listen, my eye caught an omnibus on which was written "Hanwell" ... Believing utterly in one's self is a hysterical and superstitious belief like believing in Joanna Southcote: the man who has it has 'Hanwell' written on his face as plain as it is written on that omnibus ... But though moderns deny the existence of sin, I do not think that they have yet denied the existence of a lunatic asylum. We all agree still that there is a collapse of the intellect as unmistakable as a falling house. Men deny hell, but not, as yet, Hanwell.|from ''[[Orthodoxy (book)|Orthodoxy]]'' by [[G. K. Chesterton]] (1908).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16769/16769-h/16769-h.htm|title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton|via=Project Gutenberg|access-date=29 March 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924202028/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16769/16769-h/16769-h.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|THE FLOWER GIRL [still preoccupied with her wounded feelings] He's no right to take away my character. My character is the same to me as any lady's.<br />
THE NOTE TAKER. I don't know whether you've noticed it; but the rain stopped about two minutes ago.<br />
THE BYSTANDER. So it has. Why didn't you say so before? and us losing our time listening to your silliness. [He walks off towards the Strand].<br />
THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER. I can tell where you come from. You come from Anwell. Go back there.<br />
THE NOTE TAKER [helpfully] Hanwell.<br />
THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER [affecting great distinction of speech] Thenk you, teacher. Haw haw! So long [he touches his hat with mock respect and strolls off].|from ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' by [[George Bernard Shaw]], 1912}}

A traveller describes his passage through the Lands of Dream:

{{blockquote|I hurried down&nbsp;... to the edge of the wood. Black though the darkness was in that ancient wood, the beasts that moved in it were blacker still. It is very seldom that any dreamer travelling in Lands of Dream is ever seized by these beasts, and yet I ran; for if a man's spirit is seized in the Lands of Dream his body may survive it for many years and well know the beasts that mouthed him far away and the look in their little eyes and the smell of their breath; that is why the recreation field at Hanwell is so dreadfully trodden into restless paths.|from "A Shop in Go-By Street" in the short story collection ''Tales of Three Hemispheres'', by [[Lord Dunsany]]}}

Hanwell is depicted in the opening story of ''An Unreliable Guide to London'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.influxpress.com/an-unreliable-guide-to-london/|title=An Unreliable Guide to London|website=Influx Press|access-date=20 February 2017|archive-date=21 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221010530/https://www.influxpress.com/an-unreliable-guide-to-london/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2016/07/28/an-unreliable-guide-to-london-book-review/|title=An Unreliable Guide to London – book review|website=Hackney Citizen |date=28 July 2016|access-date=30 September 2024}}</ref>  published in 2016 by [[Influx Press]]:

{{blockquote|All these goings-on in Hanwell buzz around the Clock Tower. Walk past it and you'll hear the town giving up its secrets in a tumble that sounds like a rush of water. Careful, you know you can catch rumour like a cold.|from "Beating the Bounds" by [[Aki Schilz]]}}

===In video games===

"Welcome to Hanwell" is a 2017 [[survival horror]] game.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://welcometohanwell.com/|title=Welcome to Hanwell|access-date=25 May 2018|archive-date=18 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518083516/http://www.welcometohanwell.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>