Photo by Albert Sheard, no reproduction without permission
Soldiers in the blacksmiths, Great Expectations, 1981. The set was created in Studio A of Pebble Mill.
The following comment was added to the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Camilla Fisher: ‘Tony Fisher worked on this production and also took photos. A few years later our daughter told her teacher that her daddy had been at the battle of Waterloo. She was disbelieved. So to prove her point she took the photos into to school.’
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/583616358678065/?t=0
Tom Coyne shows the viewers of Nationwide around the brand new Pebble Mill studios in 1971, including TV Studios A and B, and Radio studio 3, the home of The Archers.
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Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac, by Andre Maurois, was transmitted in autumn 1975 on BBC2. The interiors would have been recorded in Studio A.
Below is the entry from the Radio Times, from the BBC Genome project:
‘The BBC2 serial: written for television in six parts by DAVID turner starring Nicky Henson as Balzac 1: Apprenticeship of a Genius Honore Balzac , ablaze with vitality, determined to embrace greatness as a writer, embraces instead the first great love of his life.
Costume designer, Joyce HAWKINS; Script editor Lennox PHILLIPS; Designer, Margaret PEACOCK; Producer Richard Hevnon; Director Joan CRAFT
Contributors
Mme Balzac: Helen Ryan
M Balzac: William Squire
Laure Balzac: Rosemary McHale
Laurence Balzac: Elizabeth Romilly
Père Dablin: Leslie French
Eugene Surville: Tim Woodward
Comtesse de Berny: Elizabeth Spriggs
Comte de Berny: Barry Sinclair
Emilie de Berny: Rosie Kerslake
Augustine de Berny: Phoebe Nicholis
Jeanne de Berny: Kate Lock
Victorine de Berny: Tracey Childs
Raisson: Jeremy Clyde
Peasant girl: Vanessa Millard
Buisson: Paul Imbusch’
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f0762eee12e34531a98afebdf8888018
The photos were originally posted on the Pebble Mill Engineers Facebook group, and I suspect they are probably from costume designer, Joyce Hawkins.
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These photos are of the blacksmith’s set in the 1981 adaptation of Dickens’ Great Expectations, in Studio A.
They were originally posted on the Pebble Mill Engineers’ Facebook group.
Stan Morgan book keeping all the moves
Stan Morgan
Stan and John larking around on Great Expectations
Photos by Albert Sheard, no reproduction without permission. The photos show Stan Morgan on the props team at work on Great Expectations.
Thanks to Albert Sheard for sharing the photos.
Albert has added the following information: ‘Stan’s job was to mark the floor with tape each time furniture moved for camera shots and the other chap was John Mills, sadly both guys no longer with us, seems like yesterday when I took that picture, they were good times.’