Category Archives: Stories

Evesham course pictures, and other various things

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Bernard Newnham

Nick Lake sent the course picture for TO26  (click for big) – …and Mike du Boulay sent TO16 – Nick also sent a Softly Softly Task Force group picture from 1974 – Nick says that  “…. this is  TC4 and, as … Continue reading →

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More stories from Alec Bray

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Bernard Newnham

It’s a Square World Some programs were a joy and a privilege to work on – and one such program was “It’s a Square World”.  It was the only comedy program where I ever saw anyone from the Technical Operations … Continue reading →

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From Alec Bray….

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Bernard Newnham

Alec Bray was in tech-ops  from Jan 1963 – May 1967 on Crews 7 and 13 (and occasionally others) .  Here are some stories and a card…. The Vinten Heron In the mid to late 1960’s there were very few zoom … Continue reading →

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Norman Taylor’s Emitron

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Bernard Newnham

Somehow these pictures got left in a temp folder for two years, for which I have to apologise to Simon Vaughan of the Alexandra Palace Television Society who sent them to me in July 2011. The Emitron belonged to the late … Continue reading →

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Roger Bunce and the TM’s dispute

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Bernard Newnham

Roger remembers……. Remember the T.M.’s Dispute of 1979? I’ve forgotten what the issues were, but the Union backed the T.M.s, so we all became involved. I recall producing cardboard lapel badges with logos like, “Support Your Local T.M.”, etc. It … Continue reading →

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Maurice Fleisher – his working life

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Bernard Newnham

I recently read the article here “Clive Leighton – his working life” and was absolutely fascinated by the similarities in our respective BBC backgrounds…..although it actually goes back even further in that we were both born the same year and … Continue reading →

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