Was the exterior of Windsor Gardens (the street where the Browns live) a real street or a studio set?
And what about the exteriors of the Natural History Museum - was that real or set? I presume all/most of the interior filming at the museum was done in the studio.
The exterior shots of the Museum are real, with all the carved animals and plant forms twining up the architecture; as are a lot of the interiors, especially in the public areas. The great entrance hall with its dinosaurs and the grand staircase, certainly.
The Explorers' Club is the Reform Club in Pall Mall, famous as the club in which the bet was made that started Phileas Fogg on his journey Around the World in Eighty Days. The pneumatic tubes and machinery have been CGI'd in, of course. The Reform Club appears in loads of films, it's the club that looks most like a club, if you know what I mean.
The Portobello Road is real, too, and looks just like that. And the platforms at Paddington Station; the ticket hall areas were filmed in Marylebone Station, which again, gets used in films a lot.
I don't know about Windsor Gardens; I suspect that is a set.
The street the Browns live on is a real street, not a set.
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Here is Google's recognisable Streetview of the curved road:
https://goo.gl/maps/x1eERxmcJ562
The Browns' house (at number 26) is even for sale, for a bargain £3,250,000:
http://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbpirsmvs160079#/Detail
Haha, "requiring refurbishment"! Let a film unit into your property and they'll wreck it.
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