Photo from Eurwyn Jones, no reproduction without permission.
The photo includes: 2nd from the left, Eurwyn Jones, who was an assistant floor manager on Nanny, next to Sian Phillips. Wendy Craig played the title role in the drama series.
Nanny was a London production, hosted at Pebble Mill. There were three series, transmitted in between 1981 and 1983. It was a period drama set in the 1930s.
Thanks to Eurwyn Jones for sharing the photo.
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This BBC Engineering magazine was brought out in 1971, just as the Pebble Mill building was opening.
To view the whole magazine, please click here.
Thanks to Ray Lee for sharing the magazine.
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This article, by David Norris, about Pebble Mill appeared in the BBC retirees’ magazine, Prospero, recently.
Thanks to Peter Poole for sharing this article.
The following comment was left on the Pebble Mill Facebook group:
Keith Brook: ‘Ah, Brothers.
My ‘roll your own’ cigarettes, in brown Rizla papers, featured heavily in the series when Hilary Tindall smoked them in a sophisticated way.
I had to make them fatter to look like imported ciggies. Fair play to the girl, she wasn’t a smoker, but she inhaled my super strong, no filter tip, Old Holborn masterpieces.
The whole series cost me a fortune!!’
Mainly because of the retakes cause by Paddy O’Connell, which required another hastily make one.
Shooting on early film cameras from pebblemill on Vimeo.
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Specially shot interview with film cameraman, John Williams, talking about working on early film cameras, e.g. Arriflex cameras, early zoom lenses, and blimps.
John Williams
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‘That photo! How NOT to dress appropriately for a Quarry Bank chain shop. The man behind me is Sam Bloomer, one of the last hand chain makers -and I still have that interview, along with many others recorded over the 7 years I compiled and presented “Wulfrun Echo” in the Black Country for BBC Radio Birmingham. Many of these interviews have been hailed by Professor Carl Chinn as being as important as the BBC RADIO BALLADS for their verbal depiction of working class life and times – it makes me very proud to have this legacy for my 40 years in broadcasting. I had spent nearly a decade capturing memories of individuals who had never been in front of a microphone -I then spent 5 years on Channel 4 ‘s “The Tube” capturing people who couldn’t wait to get in front of the camera [when they had something to sell, of course] .
The photo was used in a Radio Times article following me out and and about in the patch, likening me to a human whippet. It was written by Booker Prize contender, Jim Crace. The powder blue jacket? Destroyed by oil spray and soot when I recorded a ride on a traction engine in Wolverhampton – the price of vanity. When it comes to clothes I have never learnt my lesson.’
Chris Phipps
‘Chris was the first full time Wolverhampton reporter based in his own studio in the town and among his regular productions was the ‘Wulfrun Echo’, weekly news magazine on Radio Birmingham. He was followed by Mike Henfield and then the late Barry Lankester. I took over for the year of 1984.’
Pete Simpkin