Great Scotland Yard is a narrow street tucked behind Whitehall and only a few steps from Trafalgar Square. Once the site of a royal Scottish lodging and later the address of London’s Metropolitan Police, it now holds hotels, offices and a branch of the Ministry of Defence. Despite its unassuming appearance, film crews transformed the street into the magical visitor entrance to the Ministry of Magic. The junction with Scotland Place, fringed by brick buildings and metal shutters, is where wizards and witches dial into a lift disguised as a red telephone box.