Love Story – photos by Janice Rider

Photos by Janice Rider, no reproduction without permission.

Costume designer, Janice Rider, took these polaroid photos for continuity purposes during the recording of the drama serial, Love Story. The drama was produced and transmitted at irregular intervals between 1979-83. In all there were eleven serials, usually of four parts. These polaroids are from the Love Story serial – A Chance to Sit Down parts 1 & 2. They were transmitted on 10th July 1981, and 17th July 1981.

The director was Paul Ciappessoni; the producer, Colin Shindler; script editor, Sally Head; the original writer and adaptor was Meredith Daneman; and the designer was Stanley Morris. The Northern Ballet Company worked on the choreography.

The cast included: Jan Francis as Barbara, Del Henney as George, Alpo Pakarinen as Jack, Cherry Gillespie as Melissa, and Melanie Parr as Jocelyn.

The story centres on Barbara Livesey, who is attempting to succeed as a leading ballet dancer, until she meets the company’s male lead – Jack. In the second episode, she seems to be losing the battle for Jack’s attention, with fellow dancer, Melissa.

 

 

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Tony Wadsworth deep in thought!


Tony Wadsworth Programme Organiser WM 1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tony Wadsworth, deep in thought at his desk, whilst working as Programme Organiser at Radio WM at Pebble Mill in 1994.

Grade ‘C’ Course – Wood Norton 1964

Grade C No 46 June 1964 PS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The photo is of the ‘Grade C’ No. 46 trainees at Wood Norton, from June 1964! Pebble Mill’s telecine engineer: Jim Gregory is on the front row, fourth from the left, and Pete Simpkin (who became a Radio Birmingham producer/presenter, after a stint in Southampton), is third from the left in the middle row.

Pete remembers that the trainees had a use a mix of different cameras, including two Marconi Mk 1′s, an EMI vidicon and an Marconi Mk 3 3″ IO.

Thanks to Pete Simpkin for making the photo available.

Paul Grice added the following information about the Grade ‘C’ course, on the Pebble Mill Facebook group:

‘The ‘C’ course was the final course in gaining ETSIs (engineering training standing instructions) for people recruited as school leavers or graduates. School leavers had to do part one (electronics) and part two ( TV, radio or transmitters) while graduates only did part two. It took part in the 2nd or 3rd years of careers and was recognised all over the world as the bet qualification for broadcast engineers. I taught at Wood Norton from 1977 to 1988 when I moved to Pebble Mill.’

Pebble Mill Site – Tom Poole

PM site Tom Poole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo by Tom Poole, no reproduction without permission.

Tom got up around 5.30am to take this photo of the still vacant Pebble Mill site, 8 years after the BBC studios were demolished!

CMCR9 – Cheshire Commercial Vehicle Run

North 3 at Lymm B 28 Roger D copy
Photo by Roger Dowling, no reproduction without permission.
Owner, Steve Harris took CMCR9 CM1/ North 3 and two friends on the Cheshire Commercial Vehicle Run last Sunday and sent the ‘postcard’ below. That will have blown a few cobwebs out of the system, ready for the summer show season. The run was 112 miles!
Jerry Clegg
CMCR9 on the Cheshire Run JC