A converted warehouse apartment used in Oliver! is on sale for £3.25m - The Times

"Can a fellow be a villain all his life?” the actor Ron Moody sung while playing the role of the pickpocket gang leader Fagin in Oliver!, the 1968 film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel. “All the trials and tribulations! Better settle down and get myself a wife.”

As he sang one of the film’s most famous songs, Moody’s words echoed around the crumbling walls of New Concordia Wharf, a dilapidated Victorian warehouse that was chosen to be the setting of Fagin’s lair — the makeshift home that the fictional criminal shared with the desperate child orphans he trained to steal on the streets of London.

In his 1838 novel Dickens described the lair as “a dark and gloomy den, where a flaring gas-light burnt all day in the winter-time, and where no ray of sun ever shone in the summer”."

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