Blue plaque for Rotherhithe Picture Research Library and Sands Films Studio

Rotherhithe Picture Research Library and Sands Film Studio invited actor Derek Jacobi to unveil their blue plaque on January 23 2009. The blue plaque will be erected on the Grade II listed building later on in the year. 

Opened in 1976, the library and film studio in St Marychurch Street, Rotherhithe, have become an internationally recognised period costume house, studio location and research resource.

"Over the years the library and studio have been involved with many productions, from Death on the Nile, The Butterfly Effect, Pride and Prejudice, The Other Boleyn Girl, to our own productions of Little Dorrit and As You Like It.

"In 2001 the Sands Films production of 'The Children's Midsummer Night Dream' involved 364 children from eight local schools in a brilliant feature film production of Shakespeare's play."

Olivier Stockman, Rotherhithe Picture Research Library and Sands Film Studio manager