About this tour

The panoramas record studio stages, dressing rooms, production offices, technical and engineering facilities, studio galleries, sound-mixing rooms, the canteen and the surviving former sets of Holby City. The Fairbanks Building and Neptune House were associated with programmes including The Muppet Show, Sapphire & Steel, This Is Tom Jones, Top of the Pops, Grange Hill, Two of a Kind, ’Allo ’Allo! and Holby City.

These images show the buildings in their final period before demolition, after asbestos surveys and intrusive checks. Some ceilings, wall panels, fittings and finishes had been disturbed or removed, so the tour does not represent the condition in which generations of casts, crews and studio staff knew the buildings.

By recording the buildings before they disappeared, The Elstree Project has made a lasting visual record of their scale, layout and working environment. The tour complements the oral-history archive by preserving the physical spaces in which people’s memories were made.

We are grateful to the staff and management of Oxygen Studios for granting full access to make this recording possible.