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Lime Grove Studios was a
film studio complex built by the
Gaumont Film Company in 1915 situated in a street named
Lime Grove, in
Shepherd's Bush London W12 near
Hammersmith, west
London and described by Gaumont as "the finest studio in
Great Britain and the first building ever put up in this country solely for the production of films".
The studios prospered under Gaumont, and later,
Gainsborough Pictures and not long after the start of
World War II were bought by
J. Arthur Rank and became a home on many occasions to the
Ealing comedies. The famous British film
The Wicked Lady (1945) was also made at Lime Grove.
In 1949, the
BBC bought Lime Grove Studios as a "temporary measure" - as they were to build
Television Centre at nearby
White City - and began converting them from film to television use, reopening them on
21 May 1950.
Lime Grove would be home to many BBC TV shows over the next forty-two years, including:
Nineteen Eighty-Four,
Quatermass II,
Steptoe and Son,
Doctor Who,
Nationwide,
Top of the Pops and the 1950s
soap opera The Grove Family took the name of its title family from the studios, where it was made. The last live programme was
The Late Show on
14 June 1991 from studio D.
In 1991, the BBC decided to consolidate its London television production at BBC Television Centre and close its other studios including Lime Grove and so it was that on
26 August 1991, a month after the studios were closed forever, the BBC transmitted a special day of programming called
The Lime Grove Story featuring examples of the many programmes and films that had been made at Lime Grove in its 76 years as a place of film and television production.
Television Theatre close by, near
Shepherd's Bush Green, closed the same year.
The studios themselves were put on the market and eventually were bought by a development company which demolished the studios and redeveloped the area for residential housing.
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