Isleworth Studios

Isleworth Studios

Isleworth Studios is the name of at least two former film studios in Great Britain.-Former Odeon Isleworth:One began in March 1935 as Odeon Isleworth, one of the Odeon Cinemas. The Bauhaus-influenced building has a Germanic style and was designed by George Coles. It closed in 1957, a victim of the...

, also known as Worton Hall Studios were located in Worton Road, Isleworth

Isleworth

Isleworth is a small town of Saxon origin sited within the London Borough of Hounslow in west London, England. It lies immediately east of the town of Hounslow and west of the River Thames and its tributary the River Crane. Isleworth's original area of settlement, alongside the Thames, is known as...

 in the London Borough of Hounslow

Hounslow

Hounslow is the principal town in the London Borough of Hounslow. It is a suburban development situated 10.6 miles west south-west of Charing Cross. It forms a post town in the TW postcode area.-Etymology:...

 and this film studio mainly concentrated on commercial advertising films but was also the studio for a few noteworthy films, for example The African Queen. After closing the premises was taken over by the National Coal Board

National Coal Board

The National Coal Board was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the mines on "vesting day", 1 January 1947...

as a Mining Research Establishment. However, it is now an Industrial Estate.