From Star Wars to Downton Abbey: Real rags to riches story of world's biggest supplier of film and TV costumes (a family-run affair since 1840 that's won 36 Oscars)
Costume business Angels started life as a second-hand clothes store near Covent Garden
Warehouse in north-west London contains around 5million items of clothing - on 8.5 miles of rails
This year, won its latest Oscar for Best Achievement in Costume Design with The Grand Budapest Hotel
Other Academy Awards include Cleopatra, The Great Gatsby (1974 and 2014), Chariots Of Fire, Gandhi, Gladiator, Titanic (1997), Shakespeare In Love, Star Wars and Bram Stoker's Dracula
Also supplied clothes for Harry Potter, The Imitation Game, Goodfellas and The Theory Of Everything
TV credits include Game Of Thrones, Sharpe and Boardwalk Empire
Sean Bean and Allie Byrne in TV show Sharpe. Bean's principal outfit from the series is in a military 'lock-up' room at Angels
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2821958/From-Star-Wars-Downton-inside-Angels-world-s-biggest-supplier-film-TV-costumes.htmlI'd love to roam around in there for ours.
