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Dickenson Road Studios

Dickenson Road Studios was a film and television studio in Rusholme, Manchester, in north-west England. It was originally set up in 1947 in a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel by the film production company Mancunian Films and was acquired by BBC Television in 1954. The studio was used for early editions of the music chart show Top of the Pops between 1964 and 1966.

Dickenson Road Studios

Dickenson Rd Wesleyan Methodist Church

Demolished

Converted church/film and television studio

Gothic Revival

Dickenson Road, Rusholme

Manchester

United Kingdom

53°27′09″N 2°13′11″W / 53.4524°N 2.2197°W / 53.4524; -2.2197

1862

  • 1862 Church opened
  • 1947 converted to film studio

1975

1975

William Haley & Son

Broadcast of the first episodes of Top of the Pops

The studio closed in 1975, when the BBC moved to New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road and the building was demolished.

(1948)

Cup-tie Honeymoon

International Circus Review (1948)

(1948)

Holidays with Pay

Showground of the North (1948)

(1948)

Somewhere in Politics

What a Carry On (1949)

(1949)

School for Randle

(1950)

Over the Garden Wall

Let's Have a Murder (1950)

(1952)

Love's a Luxury

(1952)

Those People Next Door

(1953)

It's a Grand Life

Hunter, I.Q.; Porter, Laraine (4 May 2012). . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-50837-0. Retrieved 29 May 2022.

British Comedy Cinema

Richards, Jeffrey (1997). . Manchester, UK / New York City: Manchester University Press. p. 267. ISBN 9780719047435.

Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army

Simpson, Jeff (2002). . BBC Worldwide. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-563-53476-1. Archived from the original on 26 March 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.

Top of the Pops: 1964-2002

Humphries, Patrick (28 November 2013). . McNidder and Grace Limited. ISBN 978-0-85716-063-8. Retrieved 27 May 2022.

Top of the Pops 50th Anniversary

List of BBC properties

List of British film studios

List of performances on Top of the Pops

Longsight Free Christian Church

. Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive. Archived from the original on 20 June 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2022.

"A tour of Wilmslow Road"

on Wednesday 1 January 1964, as listed in Radio Times

First broadcast of Top of the Pops

on IMDb

Productions at Film Studios Manchester

. Top of the Pops Archive. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2022.

"Top of the Pops 60s Episode Guide"