Video - Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Published: 2009-10-22

The Thames embankement, one of several places where the banks are accessible

Stairs allowing access to the Thames embankement in Wapping, 2008

One of the ending shots of the video, bank of the Thames

Ending of the original video showing the bank of the Thames in Wapping

Dancing sequence was filmed in a public garden somewhere around Havering street

The wooden building providing background is unidentified, probably having been torn down by now.

The outhouse in the video remains unidentified

Looking down present day Havering street, railway bridge at the end

The railing in the video and the present day is identical.

Neighbour comes to complain about loud music

One of these doors would have been the door Steve Marriott opened

View from slightly further back, June 2008

Havering street in the present day, June 2008

The garden Steve Marriott sits in has not been identified

This part of video shot at Kenney Jones parents house in Stepney

Havering street in the video and in the present day, June 2008

The Small Faces - Havering Street

Havering street is a street in Stepney in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which forms part of the East End of London.

The track 'Lazy Sunday Afternoon' from 1968 was Inspired by Steve Marriott’s constant feuds with his neighbours when he lived in Princes Gardens in Kensington. He rented two flats in the block under the alias of Fred Smith, he was evicted from both of them.

A promotional music video was made for Lazy Sunday Afternoon, it was filmed at Kenney Jones's parents house in Havering street in Stepney, in the East end of London. The sequence where a woman (the next-door neighbour) rings the doorbell to complain about loud music, used Kenney Jones's parents front door. The sequences with Steve sitting in a garden and the dancing sequences, was filmed at a green belonging to a nearby block of flats. The ending shots showing the river was filmed at the Thames embankment at nearby Wapping. The wooden building in the video remains unidentified, probably it has been torn down.

Havering street looks much like it did in the 60s apart from a few more signs, the Thames embankement is reachable in several places and it is hard to find the exact spot where the video was filmed since there is little in the video to identify where the exact spot was.