Quadrophenia Album locations

[dadsarmy]

Hi all is there anyone that can help me with the locations for the Quad 73 album booklet.  I know we used to be able to access it but cant now.  Im in London/Brighton soon and would love to visit them - please help!

[Ineedanewname]

Hi, welcome to the forum. If you're referring to the locations blog, it's closed whilst I convert the content into a book.

In a nutshell;

Brighton is the easiest place to find the Quadrophenia album booklet locations. Just walk along the seafront. Start at Brighton Pier (which Jimmy is pictured walking along) and finish at the remains of the West Pier (which Jimmy walks past on the beach). Just before the latter you'll see the Grand Hotel (the Ace Face picture - although the front of the building was reconstructed following a terrorist bombing in the 1980s). Most of the locations from the film can also be found on that stretch of the seafront.

If you're arriving in Brighton by train just follow the main road outside the station downhill and within a ten minute walk you'll be at the first pier.

London locations, very briefly (and more awkwardly because they're spread widely apart), the tunnel is the Greenwich Foot Tunnel (access via Isle of Dogs near the Island Gardens DLR station), the railway station is Waterloo, the Power Station is Battersea, the overturned car is Wycliffe Road, and the Hammersmith Odeon is today the Eventim Apollo.

[brianinatlanta]

This might be some help.

Film locations for Quadrophenia (1979)

[dadsarmy]

Many thanks for the excellent info is the house on the front cover in Wycliffe Road as well?

[Ineedanewname]

I've never yet seen the address for that house identified, and unfortunately the photographer is one of the incredibly tiny minority who in the course of my researching the book/blog have failed to respond to my attempts at contact.

Despite which, I do now believe I have the location pinned down to a specific area, but it will be short while before I can check in person.

[Ineedanewname]

A brief update; The mystery of the location of the house pictured on the album booklet cover has now been solved.

So, aside from the rubbish tip and the scooter crash, that's all of the booklet's exterior locations identified.

[cyclopsfpv1965]

Aug 29, 2016 7:16:23 GMT Ineedanewname said:

A brief update; The mystery of the location of the house pictured on the album booklet cover has now been solved.

So, aside from the rubbish tip and the scooter crash, that's all of the booklet's exterior locations identified.

[cyclopsfpv1965]

Hi.where can I get the book of the locations on the booklet on the LP?.i always thought the upturned car location was in townsmead road Fulham?and I think I know where the house on the inside cover of the booklet is?it's just off battersea park road.the school Jimmy is outside on his GS is near Patmore estate near the old studios(now a library)near Thesally road.scooter ridden on road was in Queenstown Road I think.im doing more research on this and hopefully people will join in.

[Ineedanewname]

Dec 11, 2021 14:50:55 GMT cyclopsfpv1965 said:

Hi.where can I get the book of the locations on the booklet on the LP?.i always thought the upturned car location was in townsmead road Fulham?and I think I know where the house on the inside cover of the booklet is?it's just off battersea park road.the school Jimmy is outside on his GS is near Patmore estate near the old studios(now a library)near Thesally road.scooter ridden on road was in Queenstown Road I think.im doing more research on this and hopefully people will join in.

Hi clylopsfpv1965.

The book's been put on hold for various reasons, restarted , put on hold, restarted, problems with photos, put on hold etc....but I'm now planning on finally finalising it for the final of final times after the start of the new year.

The car is Wycliffe Road, Battersea. This is the location today:

goo.gl/maps/ARz7XPhUAFNmrXkY6

The school is just down the street. It's been demolished and rebuilt so now looks nothing whatsoever like the album cover picture.

The studio in Thessally Road is now a Doctor's surgery. A few years ago it had a commorative plaque added to the wall by the local Council celebrating its Who history. 

The scooter photo is Queenstown Road, but my guess is the picture is either a composite or the lens used radically altered the perspective. At the only spot along the road where you can today in the same way line up the bridge, gas cyclinder (which I think is now demolished) and powerstation, the latter pair are quite distant from the bridge, not looming over it. A while ago I spoke to the photographer about the pictures but stupidly didn't think to ask about this one!

The house? Finding that thing could be worthy of a small book of its own. I spent the best part of a year trawling old documentation and archives, trying to contact various architectural experts and suchlike until a local historian seemed to provide the answer. Which is where I found myself last time I posted on this topic and thought I'd identified the location. Problem was, it couldn't be 100% verified as it had been demolished long ago. Yet everything did seem to point to that being "the one".

BUT. To add another twist to the tale...if you're still awake...whilst bored one afternoon I decided to revisit the previous research and, combined with the modern witchcraft of satellite imagery, aerial photography and suchlike, was able to accurately compare it against some newly uncovered Victorian-era maps. All of which told me I was in the wrong place with the previous location, but pointed me toward a very different location...which was within walking distance of where other photos in the booklet were taken.

So I'm now certain I have THE location. But after all that work I ain't giving it away for free here....you'll have to wait for the book, sorry!

I will say one thing. The original house is gone. Which unfortunately didn't hit me as much of a surprise because London has seen such a stupendous amount of redevelopment in recent years that history is literally being wiped off the map in a shockingly routine manner.