(Copyright of the photo remains with the original holder) I was asked to man the lift when Princess Anne opened the building….even bought a new scarf for the occasion. As a PA of only 4’11″ stature and spending most of my time in the 2nd floor bar, nervous personnel doctored the lift buttons to make [...]
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Tagged as: Asian Programme Unit,Bob Gale,Carole Glover,Charles Hill,Coral Higson,David Rose,Dr Who,Gerry Hynes,Heather Storr,Jane Alderson,Jenny Homer,Karen Davies,Pam Relton,Pebble Mill at One,Polly Whitehouse,Princess Anne | Posted in: Blog, Building, Factual, Memories, Television
The following memories of BBC technical training at Wood Norton were posted on the Pebble Mill Facebook Group: Pete Simpkin: ‘I was at Wood Norton in the mid 60s and our engineerng course TA16 was the first engineer group to be allowed to produce a show in the famous Gym studio. It was relayed to [...]
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Tagged as: Gordon Astley,Pebble Mill,Pete Simpkin,Stuart Gandy,Tom Poole,Wood Norton | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories, Photos
I remember going to Pebble Mill as a Scout, for some anniversary or other, being told wonderful rubbish about how the programme wanted to show the ‘modern’ scouts and then almost all the programme focused on the old “dib dib dib” (a phrase [...]
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Tagged as: Dave Ackrill,Giles Herburt,Pebble Mill,Pete Simpkin | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories
(Here are some memories from Paul Vanezis of Pebble Mill film editor, Peter Snow who died recently). You know, I knew Peter so long ago it’s weird looking back and remembering the man. He always seemed older than he was for some reason. I can tell you [...]
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Tagged as: BBC Nottingham,Film Unit,Paul Vanezis,Pebble Mill,Peter Snow,VT | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories
(Norman McLeod remembers the following incident involving the VPR20, a portable 1″ recorder) Nigel Evans and Ian Dewar spent 3 days and nights trying to repair the beast in Raffles Hotel Singapore – a ‘Pebble Mill at One’ Summer shoot in 1984 with Donny MacLeod, Paul Coia, Peter Seabrook. Eventually, an Ampex engineer was diverted [...]
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Tagged as: Arthur Binney,Dick Bentley,Don Cooper,Donny MacLeod,Ian Dewar,John Smith,Nicky Barfoot,Nigel Evans,Norman McLeod,Norman Steemson,Paul Coia,Pebble Mill at One,Peter Seabrook,Roger Casstles,VPR20 | Posted in: Blog, Building, Factual, Memories, Photos, Television
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