The Lodger - Facts

 

Grace lives in Ryedale Villa in Tufnell Park. Tufnell Park is an area in north London, England, in the London boroughs of Islington and Camden.

Grace goes to the police station at Cloak Lane when she suspects that the woman found in the river is Elizabeth. Cloak Lane Police Station was a former City of London Police station located at 1 College Hill (on the corner of Cloak Lane and College Hill). It operated from 1886 until it closed in 1965, at which point policing from the area was transferred to the Wood Street Police Station.

Grace remembers when she and Elizaabeth went to the Royal Academy Exhibition. They were impressed by different artists:

John Singer's Gassed. Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent. It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded, blinded soldiers being led to a dressing station.

The Line of The Plough by Sir Arnesby Brown. 

When Edward was injured in the war, he was sent to Queen's Hospital in Sidcup, which was specialised in facial surgery. The Queen's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, opened in 1917, was the world’s first facility dedicated entirely to maxillo-facial and plastic surgery. Spearheaded by pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, the hospital treated over 5,000 servicemen who suffered devastating facial wounds and burns during World War I.

The nursing home where Grace's mother stays is in Worthing. Worthing is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, at the foot of the South Downs, 18 km west of Brighton, and 29 km east of Chichester. 

When Isobel decides to leave the nursing home, she goes to Whitby where the family have a cottage. Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire.

Elizabeth's sister lives in Penge. Penge is a suburb of South East London.

The characters mention Sir Roger Casement, who was tried for treason. Sir Roger Casement (1864–1916) was an Irish nationalist, human rights trailblazer, and former British diplomat. He gained global renown by exposing horrific atrocities against Indigenous populations in the Congo and Peru, for which he was knighted in 1911. He was later hanged by the UK for treason after attempting to secure German arms for the 1916 Easter Rising.  During his trial and imprisonment, the British government circulated excerpts from his private journals—which contained explicit details of his homosexual encounters—to smear his character and destroy international, clerical, and public support for his clemency.