Photo by Martin Fenton, no reproduction without permission
Martin Fenton took this photo in the radio studios area of Pebble Mill in autumn 2003.
Electrical safety was obviously taken very seriously, if only ‘authorised staff’ could put a plug in a socket!
The BBC logo, with the rounded corners seems to date it between 1971-88.
The following comments were left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Kathryn Shuttleworth: ‘I certainly know where this sign is. I have it along with other bits from Studio 3. I was one of the last to leave Pebble Mill and on a final walk round noticed most of the studio signs and door plates had gone. I guess quite a few people took a bit of Pebble Mill with them before the bulldozers turned up.’
Pete Simpkin: ‘In most BBC studios there were visits from musical groups of some sort and another and this notice was to be seen all over the place. I remember doing a late Christmas eve show at WM and was horrified to see my wife in the Ops room pulling out a mains plug (which could have been powering anything!) to plug in a hotplate containing eggs and bacon which she had brought in for the crew!!’