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Category Archives: Stories
A whole Mole page from Alec Bray
During the time that I worked in BBC TV Technical Operations, there was one piece of equipment that had many, many more tales told about it than anything else – this was the Mole Richardson Crane, or Mole Crane as … Continue reading →
Evesham course pictures, and other various things
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 →
More stories from Alec Bray
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 →
From Alec Bray….
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 →
Norman Taylor’s Emitron
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 →
Roger Bunce and the TM’s dispute
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 →
