Gainsborough Studios (London)

United Kingdom / England / London / Poole Street
 film/video production studio/facility, historical layer / disappeared object
Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London. Gainsborough Studios were active between 1924 and 1951. The company was initially based at Islington Studios which were built as a power station for the Great Northern & City Railway and was later converted to studios. Other films were made at Lime Grove and Pinewood Studios. The former Islington studios were demolished in 2002 and flats built on the site in 2004. A London Borough of Hackney historical plaque is attached to the building. The studio is best remembered for the Gainsborough melodramas it produced in the 1940s. Alfred Hitchcock produced many movies here.

Filming location of popular show " Mr. Bean " Also the home the British arm of the American company Famous Players-Lasky in 1920-23.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainsborough_Studios
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Coordinates:   51°32'9"N   -0°5'19"E

Comments

  • What a pity to demolish Gainsborough Film Studios. Another piece of London's history gone west.
  • "Gone west" You mean to the U.S.? It didn't come here, (if I haven't misunderstood you). It was just demolished, and the same are demolishing us with 'Saturday Night Live' nonsense. SNL is NOT popular here, but NBC Universal owns the world so that's all we get. The arts everywhere, from Rock music to films, are just going. Going, gone. Theory: The arts intimidates the whords of little people who rule by their gangs, who bleed the rest of us into 'equality.' Punk is more their game, and they've figured out how to make money at it, to run economies by it, to submit the world to it; with hordes of more punks, in grandiose disdainment of the arts and the humanities. What they are not.
  • To "go west" is to die or be destroyed.
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