On Morden's death in 1934, building tycoon Charles Boot bought the land and turned it into a Country Club.

Charles Boot based his designs upon what were at the time the latest ideas being employed by other film studios in the production of movies at Hollywood, California, USA and Boot officially named their new studio Pinewood, because "... of the number of trees which grow there still contains huge pine trees and because it seemed to suggest something of the American film centre in its second syllable.

In this respect, Boot is the UK equivalent of Snoopy from Charles.

Having first created a film production company and having made a movie at another studio, Rank, Lady Yule and John Corfield began talking to Charles Boot who had recently bought the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of turning it into a movie studio that would rival those in Hollywood, California.

Charles Boot built a folly tower overlooking Strines Reservoir in 1927 known as Boot's Folly, it is a prominent landmark for miles around.

When Grant Morden died in 1934 the estate was purchased at auction by Charles Boot, who had recently inherited a large construction firm from his father Henry Boot, who died in 1931.

Within twelve months Charles Boot transformed Heatherden Hall into the office building for a film studio complex.

Charles Boot named it Pinewood Film Studios, reflecting the numerous pine trees surrounding the area.

In 1934 Charles Boot had undertaken to construct a new film studio in the village of Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire.

His location was set among the Pine trees on the estate grounds of a mansion called Heatherden Hall that Charles Boot had recently bought at auction.

By 1935 Charles Boot had approached British National about taking over ownership and management of the new studios and a contract was entered into.

When Grant Morden died in 1934 the estate was purchased at auction by Charles Boot who had recently inherited a large construction firm from his father Henry Boot, who died in 1931.

Within twelve months Charles Boot transformed Heatherden Hall into the office building for a new movie complex which occupied the grounds.

Charles Boot was the eldest son of Henry Boot and the second of 13 children born to Henry and Hannah.

Charles Boot died in 1945.

Charles ’ business career is detailed under Henry Boot PLC.

Henry Boot was the eldest surviving son of Charles and Ann Boot.

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

The son of Dr. Charles Marris and Margaret Marris JP, he was born in Wolverhampton and partially educated in the state system at Warstones Primary School, before attending Birchfield Preparatory School and St. Edward's School in Oxford.

He was the great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles John Tottenham, DL, JP, eldest son of the Right Reverend Lord Robert Tottenham ( who had not assumed the surname Loftus ), second son of the first Marquess.

Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP ( 7 September 1876 – 18 October 1961 ) a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was a golf writer and high-standard amateur golfer.

Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, PC, QC, JP ( 12 May 1850 – 23 January 1934 ), known as Sir Charles McLaren, 1st Baronet between 1902 and 1911, was a Scottish jurist and Liberal Party politician.

Charles Parker JP ( 4 March 1809 – 29 June 1898 ) was a New Zealand politician and a carpenter.

Around the same time the historian Charles Guillaume Loys de Bochat ( 1695 – 1754 ) and the philosopher JP de Crousaz ( 1663 – 1750 ), were working the Vaud region, which was at the time part of the Canton of Bern.

* Charles Pepys Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon ( 1870 – 1927 ) ( grandson ) Son of Henry Reginald, Lord Courtenay ( d. 1898 ), a barrister and JP, Poor Law inspector for the Western District, who predeceased his own father, by his wife Lady Evelyn Pepys, daughter of Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham ( 1781 – 1851 ).

* Charles James Hughes JP, pioneer of Association Football, co-founder of Northwich Victoria F. C., FA Cup Finals referee.

About 40 turned up on the day of the trial, including Woolf herself, Forster and such diverse figures as biologist Julian Huxley, Laurence Housman of the British Sexological Society, Robert Cust JP of the London Morality Council, Charles Ricketts of the Royal Academy of Art and Rabbi Joseph Frederick Stern of the East London Synagogue.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

Carl was still Charles A. Sandburg.

He `` legitimized '' Paula for Lilian Steichen, and it was Paula who insisted on Carl for Charles.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.

Somehow Dr. Charles Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed out into the dingy corridor.

So Charles was dead.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.

Charles Reynolds of Pumpkin Ridge was rabbit showmanship champion.

Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.