Townhouse Studios history, being the first studio in the UK to install one of their B-series consoles. The 1000th console produced by SSL was installed in studio one. The SSL B mixing desk still exists. Studio One originally was home to a 72-input Helios console with an Alison 64K computer mixdown system, which now resides at Shorefire Recording Studios, Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. In July 1984, Townhouse 3 was opened, this being the old Ramport Studios in Battersea, purchased from the Who, the Helios from Townhouse 1 eventually being installed there, replacing a Neve, the Helios later giving way to
Shepperton to Weybridge Ferry long, unsupported by piers, footbridge. The river was made fully lock-controlled along these reaches. Before 1815 Shepperton at its Lower Halliford neighbourhood was one of the first fording places of the Thames. In fiction, the Shepperton to Weybridge Ferry is the scene of the first confrontation between the British military, six twelve-pound artillery pieces, and the Martians, five fighting-machines, that the protagonist witnesses in H. G. Wells' famous science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds". A Martian is destroyed by a direct hit from an artillery shell, and its comrades use their heat rays to wreak vengeance on the