CHELSEA
46a Old Church Street, Chelsea London SW3 - Today!
(Notice the head of a cow right at the top of the building at the back! See the picture below.)
(Notice the head of a cow right at the top of the building at the back! See the picture below.)
The Studio was on three floors. Entry was by a small door within a rusty steel roller shutter. At ground level was something resembling a garage with a cobbled floor. At the far end was a manually operated lift. To the right of this lift was a narrow entrance leading to a set of quite wide white concrete stairs. These led to a small, again, concrete landing, with an entrance to the studio on the first floor. The floor had a gentle slope towards the lift access at the far end. The slope was there so that when the cows were hosed down, the slope would drain off the water. There were two stairways up to the second floor.
One led to the control room, the other to the office. This, second staircase, is worth a mention because we made it ourselves from Dexion angle iron.
One led to the control room, the other to the office. This, second staircase, is worth a mention because we made it ourselves from Dexion angle iron.
The studio was on the first floor of, what had been, a Victorian milking parlour!
The black door, left, replaces the gragage shutter that was our main entrance!
John Wood (left) and myself on the night before we sold the studio to Olympic Studios.
Note the 4 track Ampex deck - with home made valve electronics; above the fantastic EMI limiter
Built-in patch bay, Elcom quadrant faders and Ampex remotes on Chelsea's first desk
John Wood's final picture in Chelsea's control room, lying on the second mixer
