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Old 03-11-2007, 08:00 PM
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Perhaps one for the London members, can anyone clear up which Borough the site falls/fell within? Some say Hackney, others Islington. I presume there may have been mergers and boundary changes down the years.

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Perhaps one for the London members, can anyone clear up which Borough the site falls/fell within? Some say Hackney, others Islington. I presume there may have been mergers and boundary changes down the years.
Do you have its address?

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It states this in the Wiki discussion:
" It should be noted that many references to the studio describe them as Islington; this is due to the confusion with the N1 postcode, and they may have been called Islington Studios during their lifetime. However, the actual site is wholly within the London Borough of Hackney, in Poole Street."

Which begs the question, why refer to them as Isllington Studios?

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Old 03-11-2007, 09:31 PM
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Status, I suppose - like Elstree Studios are so called even though they are down within Boreham Wood; literally the wrong side of the railway tracks in this case...

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This is from the Islington .gov site:

" One of the greatest film directors of all time, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, (1899-1980), began his legendary career at Islington Studios, in Poole Street (just over the borough border). "
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So I'm guessing for some reason they were called Islington but located in Hackney?
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Well I am sure the critics could have had several field days with quota output from somewhere known as Hackney(ed) Studios...

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Well I am sure the critics could have had several field days with quota output from somewhere known as Hackney(ed) Studios...

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FRENZY…Director…Alfred Hitchcock…
I am now working with the Master of filming.
Where I was born in Islington London, there was a huge warehouse type building on the corner of the Grand Union Canal in New North Road. (Very near the North Pole Pub)
It was in fact a film studio. As a kid in the forties I used to swim in the canal as it cost nothing entrance fee. (You had to watch out for the large Mocking birds floating on top of the water)
I think the studio was called Gainsborough and as a kid I remember strangely dressed people popping into the pub on the corner of New North Road and Elizabeth Avenue. (Supporting Artists of the past)
Anyway, that’s where Alfred Hitchcock made many of his films.
(I could have bumped into him while I was going swimming and he was popping in for a swift half. It’s a small world)
ONTO THE FILM…
I was now the not so proud owner of an old Bedford van and was booked by the 2nd A.D. on Frenzy to report to Covent Garden fruit market for the start of a weeks work...
There must have been fifty supporting artists working that week as market porters.
It was thirty years ago but some people still come to mind, like Big Mo Dunster who was stand/in on films for Donald Sutherland. Jimmy (the crow) Hammilton, Eddie Dillon And Bill (the body) Hemmings.
I remember the day that Donald Sutherland came down to speak to Mo about a private matter and got into one of the shots.(Everyone wants to be in a Hitchcock movie)
Mo has done well for himself and now lives in the U.S.A. looking after the Sutherland clan. Best wishes Mo, love Boysie.
Mr. Hitchcock was not very well while he was directing this film and would line up all the shots he wanted and leave the running around to his 1st A.D. (Colin Brewer, I think)
We filmed all around the market for the next week or so loading vans and unloading vans (Including my old Bedford) but I was more interested in watching the Master at work. Then near the end of the shoot in the market it happened.
The Master looked at me then at the 1st A.D. and said…
‘’Tell that man to climb up on that lorry and start unloading it’’
(‘’That man’’) he said my name, I was being directed by the great man himself.
We shot a lot of the inside of the film at Pinewood. Then some stuff with the Bedford Following a potato lorry up and down major roads and that was it.
I was sorry to see the end of the filming but it’s one film I will never forget.
If you’re looking down from that great studio in the sky Mr. Hitchcock ‘’That Man’’ will say hello when he gets there.
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They must be great memories. Cheers Aitch.

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Yes, great memories from Aitch, thanks for sharing those with us, cheers Aitch..
I believe the old Gainsborough Studios have been converted into luxury warehouse flats, or so I read in a property section of the London "Evening Standard" newspaper a few years ago.
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In Frenzy Covent Garden used to look like this.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...22497-6821.gif

Where did all that dark curly hair go.....

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Where did all that dark curly hair go.....
The same place as my 34'' waist!

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Year ago when i was a football referee i used to run the line on Spartan league games at the Brittania Leisure Centre.They were right next to the Gainsborough Studios.
I have recently been dealing with a file which relates to the sale of one of the flats at the former studios.
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I was just looking at a copy of the title for the building.In 1997 the developers entered into a covenant with Rank that the building could not be used as a cinema or multiplex.
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Quoting Bryan Magee's Clouds of Glory - A Hoxton Childhood (pp 196 -6)
"This film studio, incidentally, is invariably described, even in otherwise reliable reference books as the 'Islington studio'; but it is not in Islington, it is in Hoxton, in the next street to where my grandmother was born - less than two hundred yards from Gopsall Street School and not five hundred yards from my family's shop.... The studio was in the Borough of Shoreditch then and is in the Borough of Hackney now, but it has never been in the Borough of Islington."
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