Pinewood Studios

During my freelance working life I worked for many years for a well-known film director at his home and at Pinewood Studios when he was making a film. Many years later when we moved from the South-East to the West Country, we bought a cottage in a small hamlet on Exmoor from a couple who (unbeknown to us at the time) had also had connections with Pinewood Studios, where he had been a Director of Photography. Subsequently we met and became very good friends with the lady who had lived in this same cottage and had sold it to this Director of Photography. It later turned out that she had worked for many years in the Wardrobe Department at Pinewood Studios, and her husband also worked there as part of a film crew. None of us discovered this connection until a good many years had passed, and a chance remark unearthed our historic connection.