Jubilee
Date: 1978
Director: Derek Jarman
Production Company: Whaley-Malin Productions, Megalovision
Stars: Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Hermine Demoriane, Linda Spurrier, Adam Ant
Location(s): Dorset, London, Wiltshire
Region(s): London H-L, South West
Storyline:
Queen Elizabeth I travels forward in time to a futuristic 20th Century England where she discovers a tawdry and depressing landscape.
Additional Information:
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- Capture 1
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At John Dee's house in Mortlake, a Lady in Waiting (Helen Wellington-Lloyd) leads three Great Danes through the garden while inside, Queen Elizabeth asks her adviser to summon up an angel.
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The spirit Ariel shows the Queen a vision of the future.
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Social and physical decay pervades the land.
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A car crash victim is robbed as a group of youths fail to react. The gas holder of the former East Greenwich Gas Works dominates derelict houses standing on Greenfell Street in this view from Blackwall Lane SE10. Karl Taylor adds that the location is now occupied by Millennium Way near the junction with Boord Street. Millennium Way runs where Blackwall Lane used to lie and the gas holder is still in situ.
- Capture 5
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Chased by Bod, Queen Elizabeth II runs across waste ground in Deptford.
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Queen Elizabeth (Jenny Runacre) and Ariel (David Brandon) travel in time with John Dee to the despotic, post-industrial wasteland.
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John Dee (Richard O'Brien) stands over the body of Queen Elizabeth II as machine-gun fire sounds in the distance.
- Capture 8
- 29 Jul 2016
Kid (Adam Ant) makes his way up the steps of The Albert Memorial. Kensington Gardens W2 with South Carriage Drive to the left.
Gates are now closed so I had to stick my camera over the railing. SJ
- Capture 9
- 29 Jul 2016
The camera follows the young musician. The Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens.
Albert is now gilded. SJ
- Capture 10
- 29 Jul 2016
Kid sits on the memorial's steps and looks across South Carriage Drive and Kensington Road towards the Royal Albert Hall.
The Proms have just started. SJ
- Capture 11
- 29 Jul 2016
The Albert Memorial has been seen in many productions including 'The Assassination Bureau Limited', '30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia', 'Recoil' and 'The Holly and the Ivy'.
Now. SJ
- Capture 12
- 10 Jun 2021
After killing Happy Days, Mad (Toyah Willcox), Crabs (Nell Campbell) and Bod (Jenny Runacre) carry his body from their warehouse home. David Neicho found St. Saviour's Dock in Bermondsey SE1.

Quite a few changes here. (PW)
- Capture 13
- 10 Jun 2021
Mad and Bod listen as Crabs tells them that she thought she was in love with Happy Days. St. Saviour's Dock alongside the River Neckinger with New Concordia Wharf in the background. The area was seen in 'A Fish Called Wanda' and 'Circus of Fear'.

New Concordia Wharf now. (PW)
- Capture 14
- 14 Jul 2016
Crabs tells Kid that Buckingham Palace has been converted into Borgia Ginz’s recording studio.
Now. SJ
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After spending the night together, Angel (Ian Charleson) and Sphinx (Karl Johnson) pick a rose for Viv (Linda Spurrier) before deciding to visit Max.
- Capture 16
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- 11 Mar 2024
Max (Neil Kennedy) says goodbye when Viv and the boys leave with Bod after meeting her at the house. Identified by Richard Avison as Rotherhithe Street SE16.
Richard also provides this shot of the house now adding "It was well known because it was crammed full of gnomes, plaster birds and animals, plastic flowers and all sorts of toys covering every inch of the garden. Kids used to love stopping off to look over the fence".

It's no 364 to be helpful as Rotherhithe Street is quite long! SJ
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Kid is taken onto a high roof where Sphinx shows him where he and his brother Angel were born.
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Sphinx tells Kid about his childhood.
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The girls run to their motorbikes before riding off to find Lounge Lizard.
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- 25 May 2016
Sphinx and Angel greet guests to the palace of delights that was once a Cathedral. The tower of Westminster Cathedral in Victoria. The building was used in 'Foreign Correspondent' and 'A Thousand Kisses Deep'.
Couldn't work in the foliage. SJ
- Capture 21
- 25 May 2016
The camera tilts down the West Front of Westminster Cathedral, which has become a decadent discotheque. Ashley Place in Victoria SW1.
The day after the Thomas Becket "bit of elbow returned by Hungary" service. SJ
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- 25 May 2016
Borgia Ginz's Rolls Royce approaches the Cathedral. Looking towards Carlisle Place from Ashley Place in SW1.
Very tricky to replicate with new trees and wrong lens. SJ
- Capture 23
- Pre 2008
When the car comes to a halt, the door is opened by an Escort for Borgia Ginz (Jack Birkett) to get out. In front of Westminster Cathedral on Ashley Place.
A more up to date view along the same street by Kurt Roberts.
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- 21 Sep 2008
Angel announces the arrival of the club's owner to the crowd. The corner of Ashley Place opposite Westminster Cathedral, SW1.
The same corner now. SJ.
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Borgia tells his Escorts (Prudence Walters and Luciana Martínez) that "Progress has taken the place of heaven".
The same location from Kurt Roberts.
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- 21 Sep 2008
The camera pans as Borgia heads to the music venue.
In front of the Cathedral with Ambrosden Avenue in the background. SJ
- Capture 27
- 21 Sep 2008
With an Escort on each arm, the media magnate walks towards the entrance of Westminster Cathedral.
The West Front of the Cathedral with renovation work in progress. SJ.
- Capture 28
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Inside the disco, naked guests gyrate as police officers dance with the clergy. The West Door of Westminster Cathedral in London SW1.
Kurt Roberts captures the detail around the door.
- Capture 29
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- 14 May 2026
One of Borgia's Escorts is tied to a lamp-post with barbed wire as punks dance around her. Found by David Neicho, this is Mill Street at the junction with Jamaica Road and Dockhead in Bermondsey SE1.
David also provides this shot of the same spot.

The view today (SR)
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A Special Branch Officer (Donald Dunham) smiles, then laughs at the violent street scene that greets him.
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Girls wreck a car parked on the derelict road.
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Angel, Sphinx, Viv and Kid head off to play bingo at Max's Bingo Palace.
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Amyl Nitrite (Jordan) and Mad creep up on one of the two Special Branch Officers who raided Max's Bingo Palace, killing the boys.
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Mad breaks down after fatally injuring the Officer. Looking across St. Saviour's Dock towards New Concordia Wharf in SE1.
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Two motorbikes travel along a suburban road.
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The bikes are parked and Bod takes something from the top box.
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Shouting "No future", Bod throws a petrol bomb at the house where the other Special Branch Officer is in bed with Crabs.
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The Officer is killed.
- Capture 39
- 10 Jun 2021
Ariel speaks . . . "I am the mirror, the fire that consumes all that is created. I bring the winter of thy flowers and the frost that secretly destroys the temple".

Goodness this seems to have been a mystery for nearly 15 years. It is the Ionic temple and obelisk in Chiswick House and Gardens, London W4. Off angle so replaceable. SJ
- Capture 40
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In the future, the destruction and chaos continues. Looking across Boord Street and Greenfell Street towards the remaining gas holder of East Greenwich Gas Works in Greenwich SE10.
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Borgia Ginz is driven out of the city accompanied by the girls.
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- 22 May 2016
The Rolls Royce reaches Dorset, now a seperate state and a safe haven. Longleat House near Warminster in Wiltshire. Also see in 'The Missionary', 'Scandal', 'Blue Blood' and 'Libel'.
Robin Wareham captured the same scene but without a Rolls Royce (RL)
- Capture 43
- 22 May 2016
Borgia and his guests approach the stately home that he has requisitioned. The south aspect of Longleat House in Wiltshire.
Robin proves that the House still slants. (RL)
- Capture 44
- 23 Oct 2020
Back in their own time, John Dee and Queen Elizabeth enjoy spending time by the sea. The stone quarry at Winspit on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.

Winspit Quarry was also seen in episodes of 'Doctor Who' and 'Blake's 7'. (SD)
- Capture 45
- 23 Oct 2020
The philosopher and his Queen continue their walk along the cliffs above the shore. The quarry caves of Winspit on the Isle of Purbeck.

The quarry closed after World War Two and was opened to the public. (SD)

