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‘A red glow filled the sky’: Fire at Elstree Studios, 1936

By Sarah Street On Sunday 9th February 1936 film producer Herbert Wilcox lay awake in the early hours of the morning at his home located high up on Deacons Hill Road overlooking the British and Dominions’ Imperial Studios he’d founded at Elstree in 1930. He recalled with horror: ‘I could not sleep. I got up andContinue reading “‘A red glow filled the sky’: Fire at Elstree Studios, 1936”