the end of cosgrove hall studios... (picture heavy!)

Derelict Places

Help Support Derelict Places:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

ljarrald

Well-known member
Joined
Jul 18, 2011
Messages
48
Reaction score
28
i posted this on a different forum and have just copied the message and bb code so some of the descriptions may not be relevant to your interests.

the photos were taken on a compact canon IXUS IS 850, not the best in the world...

the building is now 100% GONE :cry: i went in as half of it was demolished, rooms that were half demolished, doors that led to nowhere... it was fun to urbex, i just wish i got there before the JCBs did.
enjoy....

this is the site of what used to be cosgrove hall studios.
it was an animation studio where they made children's television programs like...
dangermouse,
bill and ben the flowerpot men,
chorlton and the wheelies,
and many more.

it was owned by ITV who sold it to a property developer, most of the building has now been pulled down to make way for retirement flats.

its a great shame, but i was lucky enough to be allowed in before all of it was ripped down (i was the last one in many of the rooms)

i thought i'd post this on here as i'm sure many of you have watched the cartoons that cosgrove hall has produced. here are some pictures and a shortened documentary from the 80's.

312553_2706843360367_1535303771_3301601_375446886_n.jpg

383285_2706844520396_1535303771_3301602_111763637_n.jpg

378374_2706845840429_1535303771_3301605_1069586514_n.jpg

312114_2706846520446_1535303771_3301606_1041353262_n.jpg

381299_2706847400468_1535303771_3301609_1578747606_n.jpg

321672_2706848320491_1535303771_3301610_441761520_n.jpg

315047_2706851440569_1535303771_3301615_156640024_n.jpg

391230_2706853560622_1535303771_3301619_1031614775_n.jpg

388770_2706854320641_1535303771_3301620_1745465190_n.jpg

308621_2706856200688_1535303771_3301622_1449717643_n.jpg




312139_2706856760702_1535303771_3301623_1164299895_n.jpg

384281_2706857480720_1535303771_3301624_919698195_n.jpg

373843_2706858680750_1535303771_3301626_1627351543_n.jpg

377130_2712755588169_1535303771_3304513_1303129242_n.jpg

390862_2723143207853_1535303771_3309276_1935408145_n.jpg

381072_2723144127876_1535303771_3309277_1158345586_n.jpg

309708_2723144687890_1535303771_3309278_1726501871_n.jpg


379516_2723146367932_1535303771_3309280_1669768059_n.jpg



389922_2723147047949_1535303771_3309281_2066457625_n.jpg

385086_2723147647964_1535303771_3309282_1370728802_n.jpg

375365_2723148167977_1535303771_3309283_1795043571_n.jpg


i am not quite sure what this is for, there WAS a panel because some of the bells and mcps have menvier EOLs in and the bells are 24V and there are conv apollo and hochiki detectors.
309840_2723148607988_1535303771_3309284_67202935_n.jpg

392574_2723149608013_1535303771_3309285_1965878508_n.jpg

378087_2723150568037_1535303771_3309287_304956748_n.jpg

377031_2723151928071_1535303771_3309288_1229824543_n.jpg

377002_2723152808093_1535303771_3309289_1105648138_n.jpg

382768_2723153248104_1535303771_3309290_1706097287_n.jpg

375382_2723153728116_1535303771_3309291_1080966613_n.jpg




this is the hall where they actually filmed dangermouse, chorlton and the wheelies and others...
375542_2723154888145_1535303771_3309292_1975731717_n.jpg


390477_2723156848194_1535303771_3309294_1935680129_n.jpg

385988_2723159008248_1535303771_3309298_1323642462_n.jpg

379414_2723160408283_1535303771_3309299_1429877446_n.jpg

321212_2723160848294_1535303771_3309300_1368029258_n.jpg

377939_2723161808318_1535303771_3309301_740004876_n.jpg

377323_2723163608363_1535303771_3309304_538950001_n.jpg


this (i believe) is the mould for dangermouse's hand!
374350_2723164208378_1535303771_3309305_1625233939_n.jpg

309794_2723165288405_1535303771_3309307_562309743_n.jpg

374828_2723166048424_1535303771_3309308_1991865574_n.jpg

376226_2723169648514_1535303771_3309314_228094284_n.jpg


309089_2723172568587_1535303771_3309319_809970234_n.jpg

384951_2723172848594_1535303771_3309320_318102509_n.jpg

381692_2723175128651_1535303771_3309326_1894134911_n.jpg

384165_2723176408683_1535303771_3309328_421445668_n.jpg

309023_2723177128701_1535303771_3309329_2092249904_n.jpg

377157_2723178808743_1535303771_3309332_891468588_n.jpg

376255_2723179408758_1535303771_3309333_1947410331_n.jpg

388360_2723182048824_1535303771_3309337_459403858_n.jpg

390106_2723188688990_1535303771_3309346_1288117593_n.jpg





i didn't let it all go to waste :biggrin:
316683_2723195049149_1535303771_3309356_686051027_n.jpg




here is the documentary from the 80's about it. in this video most of the final building is not even built yet! in total over the years i think it had about 5 extensions!

 
all too often a great british idea gets eaten up in modernisation and buyouts. good report, shame you didnt get there before the diggers but thats very common.
 
Really interesting, such a well known name to those of us who grew up in the 1980's … I hope someone saved Dangermouse's hand!
 
Really interesting, such a well known name to those of us who grew up in the 1980's … I hope someone saved Dangermouse's hand!

i was born in the second half of the nineties so mostly grew up in the naughties. i remember the first time i noticed cosgrove hall, we drove past it in the car and i saw the logo and asked my dad if that's where bob the builder was made as it had the same logo. he told me it was and i felt happy to live in Manchester, the home of bob the builder and others, i must of been about 6 at the time... it would of still been in use making animations! :(

its a shame all the iconic buildings in this country that make us proud to be British are getting demolished/torched one by one for development.

i forgot to say, in that Ariel shot, the parts of the building with the squares and crosses in are the parts that were already demolished when i got in.

dormouse's hand... i picked it up with the intention of saving it and must of put it down! i am really kicking myself about that :(
 
Thanks for posting. I wondered what it was like but the building was secure when I checked it out. I took this in 2005 when it was still open:

CosgroveHall.jpg
 
Me too:cry:


Why would there be a mould for dangermouse's hand,wasn't he a cartoon character?? Not a puppet:confused:

good point. it must be of a different character then
 
Last edited:
Thanks for posting. I wondered what it was like but the building was secure when I checked it out. I took this in 2005 when it was still open:

CosgroveHall.jpg

that picture instantly made me feel a little sad, when i got in this part was gone. looking back at my photos it does get me down a bit... i get far too attached to buildings and it feels like a small piece of me has been destroyed for ever every time one gets demolished (am i the only one?)
 
Great pics. I remember Dangermouse really well; I used to love it as a child. I'm confused aboiut the hand mould though - wasn't Dangermouse a drawn cartoon rather than a clay animation? Was there a later series that I didn't see where they changed the style?
 
yeah, that mould wasn't for dangermouse.
i don't know what made me think it was, sorry for the confusion.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top