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The photo is of the 1960’s drama ‘Newcomers’, recorded at Gosta Green.
Myles Lang and Michael Edwards were from Design, Keith Bullock was from Lighting. Two back from Reg, white coast balding head, Fred Parsons, Lighting Electrician.
Thanks to Kevin Lakin, and Adrian Parsons for identifying some of the members of staff in the photo.
Please add a comment if you can identify others in it.
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‘The Newcomers’ is a Cast & Crew publicity shot for a soap called ‘The Newcomers’, which was shot at Gosta Green in the mid 60’s. It was a very happy production telling the story of London families relocated to a ‘Town in East Anglia’. The show gave a first break to Wendy Richard, who went on to ‘Are You Being Served’, ‘East Enders’ etc. It was directors included Ronald Wilson, Eric Hills and Paddy Russell, produced by Bill Sellars, script by Barry Letts, Kenneth Hill and Patrick Scanlan, and the story was by John Cresswell. The series also starred George Woodbridge, Megs Jenkins, Alan Browning, Naomi Chance, and Robert Brown.
Apart from the people, note the archaic lighting equipment c/f today!
1959 old Delicia Picture House
This press cutting shows the Delicia Picture House in 1959, which was one of the main BBC studios in Birmingham before the opening of BBC Pebble Mill in 1971.
The Gosta Green studios were where many early television studios were recorded.
Thanks to Gail Herbert for making the cutting available.
This little booklet documents the first 50 years of BBC broadcasting in the Midlands – from 1922-72. The forward is written by Phil Sidey, the Head of Network Production Centre at Pebble Mill in the 1970s and early 80s. The booklet tells the story of broadcasting in the Midlands, from the first studio in Witton in 1922, to the premises in New Street, followed by Broad Street, Carpenter Road (Edgbaston), Gosta Green and then Pebble Mill.
Many of the photographs were taken by Willoughby Gullachsen.
Thanks to Pete Simpkin for making the booklet available.
This brochure was produced to celebrate the opening of BBC Pebble Mill in 1971. Thanks to Juliet Dean for keeping her copy safe all these years. The last image is a picture of the original Pebble Mill farm, which was on the site before the building was erected. Before the building of Pebble Mill, production in Birmingham was scattered between sites in Carpenter Road, Edgbaston with a television studio at Gosta Green. It was sold for the princely sum of 20p!
Brochure front cover
