The Beacon House (host listing)
The Beacon House, Tankerton
Tankerton, Whitstable, Kent · Enter dates on the listing for prices
Phillip’s house in Eulogy: an Arts and Crafts house on Tankerton beach, listed with four bedrooms.
Check datesChannel 4 · Netflix · 2011–Islington → Reykjavík → Lanzarote
Black Mirror Where it was, with the screen off
Look closer. The faces are reflections.
Wake the screens ↓Charlie Brooker named his show after the glass of a switched-off screen: look into a dead phone or television and it gives you back your own face. Every episode is a new story, a new cast and a new place. This page switches the screens back on and shows you where they were filmed, from a club near Angel to a copper mine on Anglesey.
Where we read it
Brooker explained in 2014 that any switched-off television, monitor or phone looks like a black mirror if you stare at it, and that its coldness suited the show.
Stylist: Why Black Mirror is called Black Mirror (Kayleigh Dray, 3 January 2018)
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch won the 2019 Emmy for television movie; Charlie Brooker, its creator, thanked Netflix’s technical team for making the interactive version work.
The Hollywood Reporter: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch wins Emmy for best TV movie (22 September 2019)
On the glass: Mackenzie Davis, 2016, Greg2600 · CC BY-SA 2.0; Gugu Mbatha-Raw, 2020, Patrick L. · CC BY-SA 2.0; Cristin Milioti, 2024, Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0; Paul Giamatti, 2024, Montclair Film · CC BY 2.0; Peter Capaldi, 2015, Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0.
Standby · ten episodes · ten screens
Ten screens,
all switched off.
Each dead screen below is one episode. Wake it and it shows you the real place it was filmed, as that place looks now. Wake all ten and see what happens.
Touch a screen to wake it.
No signal.
Ten places are waiting behind the glass: three in and around London, two in Kent, one each on Anglesey, in Argyll, in Reykjavík and on Lanzarote, and one in a Surrey garden.
Where we read it
After Bandersnatch · 2018
Choose.
Then choose again.
Bandersnatch let its viewers steer the story at key points. Steer your trip the same way: two choices, four endings, each one a pair of real places.
Where we read it
Bandersnatch allowed viewers to direct the story at key points; it won the 2019 Emmy for television movie.
The Hollywood Reporter: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch wins Emmy for best TV movie (22 September 2019)
It is your day off. Where does it start?
Endings found: 0 of 4
Your path is not chosen yet.
Every ending is somewhere you can really go.
Kent Film Office · 2023 and 2025
Kent plays
America twice.
Beyond the Sea · 2023
A shingle road and a wood
Dungeness is the road Lana takes into town in Beyond the Sea, and the place where she later waits in her car for Cliff to come back from the ship. The woodland where Lana takes David in Beyond the Sea is Perry Wood in Selling. Beyond the Sea stars Aaron Paul as Cliff, Josh Hartnett as David and Kate Mara as Lana.
An open shingle headland. The roads are public, but the houses are homes: keep to the road and the paths.
Where we read it
Eulogy · 2025
A pier on Cape Cod, in Herne Bay
Eulogy stars Paul Giamatti as Phillip, who walks back into old photographs. Herne Bay Pier stands in for a pier on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in Eulogy.
An old photograph of the seafront. Phillip would walk into it.
On the seafront at Central Parade. The far end of the old pier stands alone out at sea.
Where we read it
Phillip’s house is on Tankerton beach
Beacon House in Whitstable doubles for Phillip’s house in Eulogy. It sits on Tankerton Beach, and it can be rented.
A private house on the beach: see it from Tankerton Slopes and the shore, or rent it.
Where we read it
San Junipero · 2016
San Junipero
is not in California.
Inside: a club off Torrens Street, near Angel station.
For San Junipero, the Electrowerkz nightclub in Islington stood in for a Californian beach town at the height of the 1980s. The director of FilmFixer, London’s film office, said the city can double for almost anywhere in the world.
Still a working club and gig venue near Angel station: it opens on event nights, usually over-18s only.
Where we read it
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis, who star in San Junipero, as themselves.
Where we read it
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis spoke about making San Junipero in Cape Town, shooting nearly every exterior at night or at dusk.
USS Callister · 2017 · Into Infinity · 2025
Three planets,
all on Earth.
The crew of the USS Callister land on strange worlds. All three are places you can walk to: a Canary Island beach, a Welsh copper mine and a wood in Buckinghamshire.
Landed: The alien beach, which is Playa Bermeja, Lanzarote.
Playa Bermeja, Lanzarote
Playa Bermeja on Lanzarote played an alien planet in USS Callister. The spaceship itself was a set built at Twickenham Studios.
A black-sand cove below a red volcanic cone on the west coast of Yaiza, near El Golfo.
Where we read it
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Six reflections
in the glass.
Hover or tab to one and it lights up.
Charlie Brooker
Creator
Named the show after the glass of a dead screen.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
San Junipero
Shot almost every exterior at night or dusk, in Cape Town.
Mackenzie Davis
San Junipero
Her co-star in San Junipero.
Paul Giamatti
Eulogy
Plays Phillip, who walks into old photographs.
Peter Capaldi
Plaything
Plays the older Cameron Walker.
Cristin Milioti
USS Callister: Into Infinity
Returns as Nanette Cole, now in command.
Where we read it
Brooker said a switched-off screen looks like a black mirror, which is why he chose the title.
Stylist: Why Black Mirror is called Black Mirror (Kayleigh Dray, 3 January 2018)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis on filming San Junipero in Cape Town, mostly at night and dusk.
Paul Giamatti plays Phillip in Eulogy; Peter Capaldi plays the older Cameron Walker in Plaything; Cristin Milioti returns as Nanette Cole in USS Callister: Into Infinity.
Photographs: Charlie Brooker, 2011, Feline_Dacat · CC BY-SA 2.0; Gugu Mbatha-Raw, 2020, Patrick L. · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mackenzie Davis, 2016, Greg2600 · CC BY-SA 2.0; Paul Giamatti, 2024, Montclair Film · CC BY 2.0; Peter Capaldi, 2015, Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0; Cristin Milioti, 2024, Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0.
Power off · go there
Switch off.
Then go.
Where it is now
15 places you can visit, from Islington to Lanzarote. Beacon House is a private house: see it from Tankerton Slopes, or rent it.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Still a working club and gig venue near Angel station: it opens on event nights, usually over-18s only.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open on Sundays, 10.30am to 4pm (last entry 3.45pm). Entry is free; donations welcome.
Torrens Street, Islington, February 2014. Maggie Jones · Public domain 7 Torrens Street, Angel, London EC1V 1NQ
Electrowerkz, Islington
For San Junipero, the Electrowerkz nightclub in Islington stood in for a Californian beach town at the height of the 1980s.
Still a working club and gig venue near Angel station: it opens on event nights, usually over-18s only.
Where we read it
Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum, April 2009. Electrolux2 · CC BY-SA 3.0 10 South Access Road, Walthamstow, London E17 8AX
Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum
A drug-fuelled tube ride in Plaything was filmed in one of the museum’s 1967 Victoria line carriages.
Open on Sundays, 10.30am to 4pm (last entry 3.45pm). Entry is free; donations welcome.
Where we read it
Stay
Sleep in Phillip’s house.
The Beacon House on Tankerton beach, which plays his home in Eulogy.
The Beacon House (host listing)
The Beacon House, Tankerton
Tankerton, Whitstable, Kent · Enter dates on the listing for prices
Phillip’s house in Eulogy: an Arts and Crafts house on Tankerton beach, listed with four bedrooms.
Check datesGo there
A garden, a tube carriage and three coasts.
Painshill and the Pumphouse Museum, and live tour searches for Reykjanes, Cape Town and Lanzarote.
Painshill
Painshill: the Pairing Day abbey
Cobham, Surrey · Cheaper booked in advance
The landscape garden where Hang the DJ held Pairing Day by the Ruined Abbey. Open all year.
Tickets
Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum
Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum
10 South Access Road, London E17 · Sundays 10.30am–4pm · free
Sit in the 1967 Victoria line carriages, one of which carried the tube ride in Plaything.
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Cape Town
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Nothing on the schedule.
We found no dated Black Mirror events at these places from October 2026. Electrowerkz runs club and gig nights all year.
No current dated events are listed. Check providers for the latest programme.
Take it home
The makers’ own book.
Inside Black Mirror, by Brooker, Annabel Jones and Jason Arnopp.
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Inside Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones and Jason Arnopp
The makers’ own history of the show, published in 2018.
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Where we read it
The Pumphouse Museum opens on Sundays, 10.30am to 4pm, with free entry; its Victoria line carriages are on show.
Painshill is open all year; tickets are cheaper booked ahead.
The Beacon House listing on Tankerton beach: an Arts and Crafts house with four bedrooms.
The complete file, with sources
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
15 of 15 places · 16 of 16 Moments
Electrowerkz, Islington
7 Torrens Street, Angel, London EC1V 1NQ
A beach town in Islington
An Islington nightclub plays a Californian beach town in the 1980s.
Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum
10 South Access Road, Walthamstow, London E17 8AX
The tube ride
A drug-fuelled ride in a 1967 Victoria line carriage.
Painshill
Painshill, Cobham, Surrey KT11 1JE
Pairing Day
Pairing Day takes place at the Ruined Abbey above the lake.
Chenies Manor
Chenies, Rickmansworth WD3 6ER
The house in Hotel Reverie
Chenies Manor appears in an exterior shot.
Black Park
Black Park Road, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire
Pixie Planet
Black Park is the forested Pixie Planet.
Dungeness
Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Kent
Lana’s road into town
Lana drives the Dungeness road into town, and waits in her car for Cliff.
Perry Wood, Selling
Perry Wood, Selling, near Faversham, Kent
Into the woods
Lana takes David into Perry Wood.
Herne Bay Pier
Central Parade, Herne Bay, Kent
A Cape Cod pier
Herne Bay Pier stands in for Cape Cod in Phillip’s memory.
Beacon House, Tankerton
Tankerton Slopes, Whitstable, Kent
Phillip’s house
Beacon House doubles for Phillip’s house.
Parys Mountain, Anglesey
B5111, south of Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey
The dusty planet
An Anglesey copper mine is the planet where Walton’s digital clone is found.
Main Street, Inveraray
Main Street, Inveraray, Argyll
Loch Henry’s high street
Main Street is dressed as the 1990s, with leaflets for boat trips on Loch Henry.
Harpa, Reykjavík
Austurbakki 2, 101 Reykjavík
Mia’s speech
Mia gives a speech in Harpa concert hall.
Kleifarvatn
Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland
The opening by the lake
The opening scenes are filmed near Lake Kleifarvatn.
Camps Bay, Cape Town
Camps Bay Beach, Victoria Road, Cape Town
California, by Cape Town
San Junipero’s exteriors, almost all at night or at dusk, are shot in Cape Town.
Nosedive, in South Africa too
Nosedive is shot in Cape Town as well.
Playa Bermeja, Lanzarote
Montaña Bermeja, Yaiza, Lanzarote, Spain
An alien beach
A black-sand Lanzarote beach plays an alien planet.