Alec Bray

I have been scanning in some old transparencies and came across these.  It must have been 1964-ish, as, from other pictures, it was when I,  young and proud to be a BBC TV T.O.,  took my maternal grandparents to look round TVC (as you could in those days!).

They all suffer from hairs and blotches and other marks: I have followed the advice given to clean up these, but only very quickly and roughly: they need a lot more work on them – colour balance, scratch and whatnot repair.  The film was Agfacolor Dia, which came back from processing ready-mounted in plastic mounts each with a clear plastic? glass? insert, and even after a careful wipe before scanning are still "horrible".

Anyway, hope you enjoy these few shots of / from TVC:

Tony Crake, Richard Green and Peter Fox pointed out that the original pictures had been scanned the wrong way round.. it’s Frithville Gardens but not as we knew it ..The transparencies were in AGFA mounts – blue one side (with logo) and white on the other: the pictures were scanned with the white side as if to the viewer (discussions as the correct way round to show slides is here:

Slides, Slide Mounts and Slide Scanners for TV .  

Corrected, these are the results. 

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I have various transparency films – from Kodachrome to Ferraniacolor (the latter which I processed myself): this one Agfacolor film seems to be the only one with the emulsion side to the white side of the frame/mount (or rather the emulsion side NOT to the company logo side of the frame).

Yes, I should have checked earlier … Did you have to mount the raw transparencies yourself in Agfa mounts?  In that case, the error was 50 years in the making!  Gosh, in those days, the good words were that transparencies were the thing – neg stock  and colour prints, PAH! – but those transparencies – at least mine – have really suffered over the years.

Talking of Frithville – I’m sure I once saw a Ford Edsel parked there …

Richard Green

I love the shots you have posted, there are not that many of that period.

The last one is before I arrived but it looks like the foundations for the Spur with the wooden building along the Wood Lane perimeter, (I think it was Personnel in 1969) and the 600 Group building in the background. I think the fancy sticky-up lights were over the Main Gate buildings.

I have a 1968 Aerofilms shot of the Centre with the Spur completed and I think those lights are also situated round the Horseshoe roadway.

Tony Crake

I fiddled with the slide of the Scenery Block for a bit… but it is in a rather decomposed condition!

I got rid of some of the whiskers….straightened it and got rid of the blue cast but I could have carried on for hours…!

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Alec Bray

Thank you, Tony, for the rework of the Frithville Gardens picture: you have done a very nice job!  I thought I had done a reasonable job, but you have done so much better!