Thamesmead as a new and better alternative through the eyes of two small children who live in older, dilapidated flats on the other side of the city. The Tavy Bridge area of Thamesmead South, including Southmere Lake, was used as a setting for the Stanley Kubrick film "A Clockwork Orange" and also the play and Channel 4 gay coming-of-age film "Beautiful Thing". British TV Drama "Misfits" was also filmed in Thamesmead. Many scenes take place around Southmere Lake, while Bexley College was once also used as a setting. The estate featured in The Libertines video What Became of the Likely Lads.
Thamesmead The video of "Come to Daddy" by electronic musician Aphex Twin, directed by Chris Cunningham, was also shot in Thamesmead. "The Firm" (1989) starring Gary Oldman was filmed in Thamesmead. Thamesmead Thamesmead is a district in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and Bexley. It is located east of Charing Cross, mainly consisting of social housing built from the mid-1960s onwards on former marshland on the south bank of the River Thames, northeast of Woolwich and west of Belvedere. Most of the land area of Thamesmead previously formed about of the old Royal Arsenal site that extended over Plumstead Marshes and