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 the Manygate Lane conservation area, built in 1955 and one of the very first film studios devoted to TV commercial production. It is a fully independent film studio used for commercials, small television productions and other short "promos". George Eliot depicted Shepperton as set out above. Shepperton was the home of author J. G. Ballard, the so-called "Seer of Shepperton", and provides the setting for his novels "Crash" (in which a couple become sexually aroused through car crashes and was written as the M3 motorway was being built past the end of his street) and "The Unlimited Dream Company". Shepperton