Belt Craft Studio is a 2600 sq ft vintage style Film and Photography Location in a converted former textile factory that oozes character and charm. Comprising an open plan main space with numerous alcoves, different shooting areas and textured backgrounds, the space has been stripped back to original aged brickwork, a peeling paint wooden ceiling and distressed with aged wooden flooring. There’s numerous different feature walls providing a huge variety of background options.
The space has an abundance of natural light with large windows running around two thirds of the perimeter whilst also having the option to be blacked out. We have a large prop selection that is being constantly updated with items ranging from chesterfield sofas to vintage signage and old oil pumps to cinema chairs. Separate from the main studio there is a kitchen area, a green room, a makeup room, change room and three toilets.
- We have industrial gas fan heating in the main studio and heating in the other rooms
- Power – 13 Amp and 63 Amp Single and 3 Phase
- Black Out Acoustic curtains for shoots that need controlled lighting on request
- Clothes Steamer, 3 x make up mirrors and a clothes rail
- Vodafone 70mb Wi Fi
- Sound System
- Bathrooms
- Kitchenette – Small Fridge, Microwave, Oven, Tea and coffee
Floor Plans (Click on Link) – https://www.beltcraftstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Belt-Craft-Studios-Floor-Plans-2025.pdf
There is a 1000 sq ft outdoor space for shooting shared by both studios. Each studio has it’s own direct access to the outdoor area. The yard also works to combine the 2 studios when they are hired out together with the direct access between the 2 studios as an alternative to street access.
15 years ago we stumbled upon a dilapidated factory full of badly put together partition walls, linoleum flooring, erie office spaces and a tree growing from floor to ceiling and straight the roof.
Piles of post jammed the door on the way in. With some light detective work and some fascinating conversations with the eclectic mix of neighbours we discovered that Unit 7 Gourley place had been a grow house, a squat, a storage space for stolen motor vehicles and sweatshop where workers were locked in for 12 hour periods with no break , having to winch fast food takeaways from the street through the windows.
3 Months of furiously long work days ensued, we stripped back the linoleum to find laminate flooring. Ee stripped that back to find hideous carpet tiles. This process imitated itself with the walls and ceiling each layer revealing another more ridiculous layer of cheap materials from the the past several decades. Huge skips were filled until one day we were back to the beginning, ground zero. The space revealed stunning timber flooring running angular across the space, steel beams criss crossing the ceiling above which timber panels peeling with paint rested, details and history revealed themselves and in the dim morning light or the din of the afternoon we realised rather than build again we had unearthed a gem. Belt Craft Studio was born. A week later after a small advert on gumtree we had our first shoot with no toilets , no power or running water, the photographer declared himself happy.
These days things are different in some regards. We have every angle covered for the needs of professional location jobs but one thing that hasn’t changed is that stunning shooting space.