Photo by Robin Sunderland, no reproduction without permission
Barrie Foster, and Dave Doogood on camera.
Thanks to Robin Sunderland for sharing the photo.
Cameramen Barrie Foster and Dave Doogood
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Studio B in action
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Studio B in action at BBC Pebble Mill circa 1975/6. Jack Rooke on the left hand camera and Dave Doogood on the right hand one. The presenter looks like a young Tom Coyne, who presented Midlands Today.
Studio B was used for Midlands Today as well as many other programmes, which didn’t need the much larger, Studio A.
Thanks to Stuart Gandy for making the photograph available.
The following comments were left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Malcolm Hickman: ‘EMI 2001s on HP peds.’
Richard Stevenson: ‘Although the cameras changed, pretty sure those peds stayed until the end.’
Carole Haysom: ‘Early Sunday mornings for Farming today…remember getting a few shorts straws for that!!!!’
Susan Astle: ‘Farming and Asian progs on a Sunday, early days at Pebble Mill! I remember Samantha once coming in the night before frock! They were early starts!!’
Helen Smith: ‘Love this – that is my Dad on the right hand camera!’
Richard Stevenson: ‘Many happy days being trained by your father. He taught me a lot for which I will always be grateful.’
GTC Award to Pebble Mill Camera Department
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This was the presentation of the GTC’s (Guild of Television Camermen) TiCA (Television Cameraman’s Award) to the Pebble Mill camera department for Pebble Mill at One circa 1979.
The names are as follows:
Back (L to R): Doug Smith, Robin Sunderland, Bob Meikle, Don Cooper, Paul Woolston, Tony Wigley, Phil Wilson, Mike Solomons (GTC Chairman from Thames TV), Brian Cave, Jim Gray, Bob Hubbard, Chris Allen, not sure (perhaps Phil Sidey?), Jack Rooke, Keith Salmon, Dave Lawson, Dave Doogood, Dave Wilkins, Pete Edwards, Tim Konewko, Bhasker Solanki.
Kneeling down (L to R): Barrie Foster, Keith ‘Scouse’ Brook, Roger Mulliner, Dave Ballantyne, John Couzens, Eric Wise
(Thanks to James French for providing the names, Annie Gumbley Williams for sending me the photo and to Roger Mulliner for sharing it in the first place).
The following comments were left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Richard Stevenson: ‘That is an amazing picture! I have never seen so many cameramen in ties! Brilliant.’
Lynn Cullimore: ‘They all look so young and thats because they were – then. hah.’
Bob Bishop: ‘There are no women in the photograph, would that be the same today.’
Keith Brook (Scouse): ‘We were told to dress up by management. Bhaskar Solanki, far right (physically, not politically) went on to be a very, very successful news cameraman and is now a senior producer. Good for him!! I should also mention that I’m the only one wearing a waistcoat. Even then, standards were sloppy!!’
Vote for Them – Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells
Photos by Roy Thompson, no reproduction without permission.
These photos are from the 1989 three part serial: Vote for Them. They were taken at the Regal Cinema in Tenbury Wells, which stood in for an Egyptian cinema. Roy Thompson took these location photos whilst on attachment at Pebble Mill, from Wood Norton. A 5am make up call at Pebble Mill was necessary!
The cameraman in the top photo is Dave Doogood, with Simon Tooley in the striped top.
Pebble Mill Reunion 2010
Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission. Thanks to Jane Mclean for making the photo available.
The photo was taken at Keith Salmon’s get together at the Saracen’s in 2010.
Included are: John Smith, John Endall, Yvonne Ackrill, Keith Ackrill, Jim Dumighan, Roy Ronnie, Margaret & Brian Barton, Gordon White, Keith Salmon, John Kimberley, Dave Ballantyne, Toby Horwood, Bob Jacobs, Wilf Welch, Tony Wolfe, James French, John Couzens, behind Jane Mclean (front with orange juice), Kath Woolston, John Abbott. Simon Evans wearing shades at back and Eric Wise standing in the front between Dave Ballantyne and Bob Jacobs. It might be Keith Bullock behind Margaret Barton, Dave Doogood behind Bob Jacobs and Mark Kershaw between Wilf Welch and Tony Wolfe. Probably Phil Wilson behind Kath Woolston. Simon Albu on left in front of John Smith.
Thanks to Dave Bushell, Jayne Savage, Janet Collins, Yvonne Ackrill and Jane Mclean for identifying everyone.