Shepperton Studios (1979), David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" (1980), Attenborough's "Gandhi" (1982) and David Lean's "A Passage to India" (1984). Rock band The Who filmed live concert scenes at Shepperton especially for their documentary "The Kids Are Alright" (1979). It would wind up being the band's final live performance with drummer Keith Moon, who died later that year. In 1984, Shepperton Studios changed hands coming under the control of brothers John and Benny Lee, who renovated the studios but soon lost control as a result of the "Black Monday" of 1987, the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike and internal issues within
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