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
SS Shepperton Ferry War Transport and regained her original name. She was converted to a troopship and used on the Stranraer - Larne route. In 1944, "Shepperton Ferry" was converted to a heavy lift ship. She was fitted with a gantry crane which enabled her to lift steam locomotives. Following the cessation of hostilities, "Shepperton Ferry" was converted back to a train ferry and returned to the Southern Railway. She returned to the Dover - Dunkerque route. Ownership passed to the British Transport Commission upon the nationalisation of the railways in 1948. In 1950, "Shepperton Ferry" was fitted with additional flooring on her