Michael Balcon Alfred Hitchcock

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# Gainsborough Film Studios, Poole Street Standing on this quiet Hackney street, you're at the birthplace of British cinema's golden age, where the Gainsborough Film Studios operated between 1924 and 1949 as a creative powerhouse that shaped an entire nation's entertainment. Here, Michael Balcon bu...

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Poole Street, Hackney

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The Gainsborough Film Studios 1924-1949 Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Balcon, Ivor Novello, Gracie Fields, 'The Lady Vanishes', 'The Wicked Lady' worked and were filmed here