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leased a house for £36 per annum in Hurst Grove, Walton-on-Thames, in 1899, and established
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company which operated at the studio declared bankruptcy, due in part to the increasing competition from rival film companies. All of the original film negatives in
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on the site in order to reinforce and disperse its production capacity, following damage by enemy bombing attacks at its factory site at
Brooklands, Weybridge, on 4 September 1940. Archibald Nettlefold died in 1944, and when the studio reopened after the war it was sold in 1947 to
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