It's fantastic that Elstree is expanding - but the bar's name is the best bit

Raise a glass to Elstree's screen heritage

Last week I had the great pleasure to be invited to the opening of the two giant new sound stages and ancillary buildings at Elstree Studios. It was a low key affair compared to the opening of the previous two giant stages I helped organise back in 1999. Then we had Prince Charles do the honours with the world press attending and later George Lucas attended the naming of the stages after him.

However, this time it does not require such a giant leap of faith as I am told the new stages have already been booked for the next five years by a Hollywood film company! Again it is once again about the luck of timing as I never thought I would live to see these new stages built. What I love is that the new man in charge has called the bar Williams and Wilcox. I can almost guarantee that nobody entering the watering hole will understand the naming but bless the chap I do. The two founding fathers of Elstree Studios back in the 1920s were a Hollywood producer J D Williams and producer and director Herbert Wilcox, who later discovered and married Dame Anna Neagle. They are totally forgotten names except to some film buffs these days but what a wonderful salute to the past.

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