Hammer archives fire?

[philip hindley]

I understand that there was fire at the Hammer archives once when was this and what was lost?

[avalard]

Offhand I think it was during the early 1960s. I understand that props/flats and so on were lost, and I suspect a lot of paperwork relating to the earliest phase of the company's history.



There's photographs in Wayne Kinsey's Hammer Films: A Life In Pictures book showing the rebuilding work at Bray following the fire.