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Worton Hall Studios were based on Worton Hall, in Isleworth. This house was built in 1783 and rebuilt and extended in the early 19th century. In 1913, it was acquired, together with a nine-acre estate, by film producer George Berthold Samuelson. The ground-floor rooms became dressing rooms, canteen, wardrobe and other offices; the upper rooms ...
There used to be a film studio in Worton Road, Isleworth. Known variously as Worton Hall Studios and Isleworth Studios, its most notable film was The African Queen (1951) starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. After the Studio closed, the premises became a Mining Research Establishment for the National Coal Board. It is now an ...
Jones was commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1866. [1] He served in the Suakin Expedition in 1885. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Colonel Jones was the officer in command of the 2nd Battalion of his regiment as 1120 officers and men left Southampton for South Africa on the SS Britannic in March 1900. [2]
Charles John Robertson (1798-1830), was an English botanical illustrator [1] who lived at Worton House, Isleworth, and was a member of the RSA.He produced illustrations for the Botanical Register and for Transactions of the Royal Horticultural Society of London.
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‘’The Small Back Room’’ was shot at a number of studios: Denham Film Studios in Buckinghamshire; Worton Hall Studios in Isleworth, Middlesex; and Shepperton Studios in Shepperton, Surrey. Location shooting took place at Chesil Bank and St Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury in Dorset ; Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain ; on the Victoria ...
Fred LeRoy Granville was born in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, in 1896, [2] and educated in New Zealand.The 1 February 1922, issue of American Cinematographer stated that he was "a bloody Britisher by birth" and "first saw the light at Worton Hall, Isleworth, Middlesex, England."
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