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I have poked around the internet to see what I can find about the buildings on Stirling Corner Borehamwood. I assume these were the Opperman premises – but if anyone knows differently then please correct me.
The Ordnance Survey maps show a building appeared at Stirling Corner in 1938 – Opperman started there in 1938/39. This building no longer exists as the Morrisons supermarket building has replaced it.
The same footprint of buildings is on a 1945 image.
Interestingly, the roundabout at Sterling Corner features in many films, presumably because the Elstree Studios are only 1.5 miles up the road and filming was done in this area. The buildings on this corner appear briefly in an episode of the 1958 detective series ‘Dial 999’ – I looked at the film and have a screenshot. Were these the Borehamwood Opperman premises?
Monty Python filmed the sketch “The 127th Upper Class Twit of the Year” on the sports field on the opposite side of the road to the buildings, but it’s too vague to see anything.