Pat Heigham

Scene guys or sparks reminds me of an occasion:
Hospitality!

LG’s hospitality suite was named Sangers 35, but I don’t know why, to this day! I never got there.

The Geophysical Year programmes had managed to obtain the services of the Duke of Edinburgh as presenter, and he was excellent.

At the supper break, before recording, there was to be a reception shindig in Sangers 35, with all sorts of people invited, unconnected with the programme…

(There exists in the Film Industry, a 10 point list of the progress of a production. No.10 is "reward of the uninvolved")

HRH wasn’t there! Panic! Where was he…? Not in the dressing room, not in wardrobe, not in make-up, not in the loo.

No – he had discovered that one of the sparks had served on his ship in the Navy, so he was drinking tea out of a tin mug in the electricians’ cubby hole in the studio!

 

Mike Jordan

Ref Sangers Yard: do you think this was the company in about 1895 who are shown as “Trunk and Portmanteau Works” in this map and 35 may have been one of the factories there?

Most of the site was the station! Lime Grove Map

By 1947, it was of course Gainsborough and the baths had appeared Lime Grove 1947-ish

(don’t spend TOO long looking at this brilliant site!)

and the site in 2018:

Alec Bray

I am getting worried … The first places I worked (BBC) – TV Centre, Lime Grove, Riverside – all demolished, all gone (TV Centre – well, half demolished). Where I went to college – C.F. Mott College of Education, Prescot, Liverpool – demolished, flattened completely, now a housing estate.  The pub we students used to go to, the “Hillside Hotel” – flattened.  The school I taught at – Ashmead School, Reading– well, half of it fell down, the rest was pulled down ..  Help!  Is destruction following in my wake?