Save Bray Studios

Bray Studios is under threat of closure and demolition. Please help save it.
Campaign launched 2010. We want to make sure the studios stay open as at 2021.

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

The historic #BrayStudios site has been bought by @AmazonMGMStudio who have been using it most recently for their Lord of the Rings series.

https://t.co/yuRAL5fgIm

[Monkey Island Lane @MonkeyIslandLn]

🌈 over the Bray Film Studios @MonkeyIslandLn

[Exclusive Films Project (Robert J.E. Simpson) @exclusivephd]

Amazon's Lord of the Rings series looks set to film at the currently upgrading, historic, Bray Studios - one time home of Hammer Films.
Quite the turnaround for the little studio near Windsor.
https://t.co/7SJomb0lhq

[Hammer Gothic @HammerGothic]

Two (very rough) composite shots of Bray Studios, home of Hammer Films, in January 1956 (from a @BritishPathe newsreel). The first view shows the main entrance from the A308 (Windsor Road), and the second shows Down Place, at the north end of the driveway, by the River Thames.

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

Major expansion set for approval at Bray Studios.
Think it's safe to say after 11 years, our main objective has been achieved.
https://t.co/50xrxKNqzx

[Hammer Gothic @HammerGothic]

The opening of Ken Russell's The Music Lovers (1971), filmed on the Bray Studios backlot, always makes me think of Hammer's Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966), with its frosty, wintry Russian sets built on the same spot.

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

@bec_bebop Not so far! That it's had another 11 years is I think a mark of success!

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

Well we might not have foreseen that particular production, but we always attested Bray Studios had more to give the industry.

We've been well and truly vindicated since and the studio currently appears to be growing in strength again.

[Hammer Gothic @HammerGothic]

In the 2010s, when fans were campaigning to save Bray Studios - the home of Hammer horror from 1951 to 1966 - who could have foreseen that by 2019 @hartswoodfilms would be filming a three-part series of Dracula, 60 years after Hammer's adaptation was filmed on the very same site?

[wayne michel gilberthorpe @waynemichelgil1]

@braystudios This studio is historic / a shine to all the classic movies that have been made there . wayne michel gilberthorpe composer / musician.

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

@waynemichelgil1 Indeedy.
But it's also a living, breathing space that continues to facilitate new productions. That heritage is best suited by continuing to be built on, don't you think?

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

Finally regained access to this account!
Good news is, Bray Studios are still standing and in use again, over a decade after the campaign to save them began.
Will try and provide some updates over the coming weeks and months.
- Robert
#SaveBrayStudios

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

There is still a body of interest in maintaining the film studios on an ongoing working basis from the industry.

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

However, the studio buildings - BRAY STUDIOS itself, are to be demolished and replaced with housing.

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

We'll post something tomorrow on the website to clarify. The historic listed Down Place house is safe. It is to be turned into private house

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

Quite right @eggplantuk The @Daily_Express is wrong. Down Place isn't for sale as far as we know. The owner of the studio is redeveloping

[Mark @eggplantuk]

Very poorly written & innacurate article on @braystudios from @Daily_Express http://t.co/gJptwg0jyv. AFAIK Down Place isn't for sale!

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

One of the flyers for the Save Bray Studios petition - which if you haven't signed yet, visit
http://t.co/tNyMPUwU30

[Doctor Who News @DoctorWhoNews]

Campaign To Save Studios Renewed: Campaigners are renewing their efforts to save film studios that have close ... http://t.co/TATj3n7b9a

[Hammer Films @hammerfilms]

'Hammer Housing Estate of Horror...' http://t.co/KrQord14Uk

[Save Bray Studios @braystudios]

Please also sign our electronic petition - http://t.co/AKv8dNTQUN #savebraystudios