ently, a scene from
Mujhse Dosti Karoge, a Bollywood film starring Hrithik Roshan as the leading
actor, was filmed by the toppled telephone boxes sculpture in Old London Road.
A scene in the television programme The Good Life sees Richard Briers get on a
71 bus in 'The Avenue' towards Kingston town centre (albeit this route never
served the east side of Surbiton where the series is set). Nipper, the famous
"His Master's Voice" (HMV) dog, is buried in the town under Lloyds
Bank. His owners lived nearby in Fife Road. Also, the 2008 series of Primeval,
shown on ITV1 in January, featured almost an entire episode filmed inside the
Bentall Centre and John Lewis department stores. Kingston featured in Primeval
again in May 2009 with several scenes shot in and around the Market Place.
Kingston Green Fair was held annually from
1987 to 2008 in Canbury Gardens, next to the river, on the Spring Bank Holiday.
The word "Green" in the title refers to the ethos of the fair as
promoting sustainable development. For instance no meat or other products
derived from dead animals were allowed to be sold, and no electricity was
permitted on the site unless generated by wind, sun, or bicycle power. Kingston
is also home to Crack Comedy Club which opened at The Grey Horse Pub in 2002
