Twickenham Studios (St Margaret’s)
Twickenham Studios (St Margaret's) - TV Studio History
Dr Ralph Jupp owned a chain of cinemas during the 1900s which in later years were bought up by Gaumont-British.  Flushed with the success of this enterprise, in 1912 he acquired a skating rink (constructed in 1909) and associated buildings in St. Margaret’s, near Twickenham.  He turned the rink into what was at the time the biggest shooting stage in the UK (165 x 75ft) with the intention of filming movies to be shown in his cinemas.  He called the site ‘St Margaret’s Studios.’ 
The Ideal Company then leased the one stage and made several reasonably successful pictures here with some of the top actors of the day.  In 1920, a few months before he died, Jupp sold the studios to the Alliance Company.  This company spent £23,000 on new lighting equipment – a lot of cash in those days.  Sadly, 2 years later Alliance went bust.

Twickenham Film Studios
Twickenham Film Studios - Wikipedia
In 1913, the studios were constructed by the newly formed London Film Company, and were at that time the largest in Britain. London Film was a leading producer during the First World War, but the company struggled and went out of business in 1920