Scenic Workshop
Photos by Willoughby Gullachsen (Gus), no reproduction without permission.
These photos are of the Pebble Mill Scenic Workshop, where the studio sets were made. The Scenic Workshop opened onto Studio A, so that sets could easily be moved into place. You can see the studio doors in the lower photo.
Scenic Workshop
RUM PUNCH DAY FOOTBALL MATCH
These photos are taken of the Pebble Mill football match, organised by the BBC Club, traditionally held on ‘Rum Punch Day’, just before Christmas each year. Thanks to Gail Herbert, who was Chair of the BBC Club at Pebble Mill for many years for making the photos available. The match was ‘Personnel versus the Club’.
Top photo (not sure which year) were the losers, top row left to right: Colin Spears, Rick Thompson, Steve Lee, Alan Towers, Brian King, Peter Urie, Jock Gallagher.
Bottom row: Paul Howell, Bridget allen, Mark Duggan, Jane Morgan, Andy Tylee, Roy Saatchi.
Lower photo: Rum Punch Day Football Match 1985.
Bottom Row: Andy Turley, Mary Mallett, Mel Stevens, Paul Howell, Roy Saatchi, Jock Gallagher Row l to r: Colin Spears, Andy Tylee, Kevin Knock, Peter Urie,?, Brian King,Peter Windows (freelance producer on The Archers, then lecturer at BCU), Ted Woodhead ?.
If you can fill in any of the unidentified players in the second photo, or know the year of the first photo, please add a comment.
Here are some aerial photos of Pebble Mill taken in the early 1970s. Thanks to Keith Ackrill, Juliet Dean and Maggie Humphries for making the photos available. The black and white photo was taken for Pebble Mill at One from a high speed RAF fighter.
Aerial of Pebble Mill taken from an RAF fighter
Phil Sidey's leaving party
Photo from Paul Scholes, of Phil Sidey’s leaving party, in the Pebble Mill Foyer, Studio C, the home of ‘Pebble Mill at One’.
Phil Sidey was the head of centre from 1973 to 1983, when David Waine succeeded him.
Phil Sidey, born in 1926, died on the 15th October 1995 whilst walking in the Peak District, below is a quote from his obituary in the Independent, written by Leonard Miall:
‘As the Head of the BBC Network Production Centre at Birmingham, Phil Sidey was the man who converted Pebble Mill from a structural white elephant into a thriving source of daytime television. He was the first manager of Radio Leeds and played a leading role in establishing lively local broadcasting on a financial shoestring. He was a programme innovator with a spate of lively ideas and an abrasive tongue which tended to upset some of his colleagues. He was also an accomplished public speaker and a successful chairman of the Royal Television Society.’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-phil-sidey-1579330.html
Please add a comment if you knew Phil Sidey and can add more information, or if you can identify people in the photo.
Pebble Mill Garden
THE GARDEN
This was a feature on the ‘Pebble Mill at One’ daily programme but this picture shows our Local Radio production office on the top left, second floor, directly ahead on the second floor level can be seen the Local radio management office. The ground floor offices were part of the PM@1 offices.
Pete Simpkin