Alice (Queenie) Turner

[…] went from drums to you haddeveloping drums there didn’t you?Well, as I say, when it was the, yes debris. But about 1948 the labs all moved to...Elstree?Elstree.Y es.Well, I didn’t go because I had a son and couldn’t leave with him. But I felt so miserable, didn’t know where to settle, you know[…]

John Jeffrey

[…]there and look at these rushes again and again. So when it came to The Shining, wasn’t it?  Was his next production. The one that burned down at Elstree. I said to Bob “Well, you know, we need this work, Bob. He’s a great pal of yours” but Bob wouldn’t go near him. I think Bob could’ve got it b[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]rsor. Well, yes, I mean it was just in the, in the Sixties I suppose. Mm. Anyway, it was quite a short film, and I did it, it was at ABPC at Elstree. I don’t remember it. I mean Cyril was very nice to work for, and I knew Dickie Todd from Robin Hood, so, you know, it was a very pleasant int[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]Poole Street, Islington.Joan Kemp-Welch: This was Lime Grove and this had - I think, this was - no, this was a Paramount and I think that was at Elstree. Would Paramount be at Elstree? I think so.Roy Fowler: Originally, they converted the power house on Poole Street in Islington to a studi[…]

Bernard Vorhaus

[…]England. The - it was at the time of the boom in the industry and Hagen had acquired two more studios besides Twickenham. And we shot this one in his Elstree studio. And they had bought a book, Dusty Ermine, a play, which was a very mediocre thing and pretty dull I thought, although it had a nice ba[…]
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