Description and History of Site:-
Large flat-roofed two- and three-storey brick and concrete building, formerly Henderson Film Laboratories.

This company had a hand in producing a huge number of British films for the big screen between the 1920s and the late 1960s, developing camera film negatives into reel for cinemas.

The laboratories were founded in the early 1920s by the Henderson brothers.

During the 1970s the business was taken over by Warner Brothers and then later the British Film Institute, when it became the National Film Archive Laboratories.

Hendersons stopped trading in the late 1990s, a casualty of the digitalisation of film.

Threatened with demolition in the early 2000s, it reopened in 2019 as a supported living project with 10 self-contained apartments and community space called Henderson House.

Further Reading and References:-
http://www.glias.org.uk/news/239news.html#I
https://southnorwood.net/local-history/72-how-south-norwood-led-the-film-industry.html
https://zhc.org.uk/henderson-house/

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Address :- Henderson House, 18-20 St Dunstan's Road, South Norwood, London, Greater London, SE25
Grid Ref :- TQ 3388 6847
Co-ordinates :- Lat 51.399472 , Long -0.076844
Local Authority :- Croydon London Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Surrey
Site Status :- Site extant - No Protection
Site Condition :- Site refurbished to residential housing
Contributor :- GLIAS Database - 2 June 2018

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