27th May – 2nd August 1963

BBC Engineering Training Establishment

Course Schedule

Course Attendees

Accommodation

On the left, the posh block – on the right, D Block for those on the Tech Ops course.

The rooms Block D were very small and sparsely furnished. Two beds,two chairs, one wardrobe, a radiator under the single window, a wall light above the head of each bed, and a single overhead room light.

Course Activities

Practice with lighting

Practice with Sound

One day we were mixing between two gram decks.  The idea was that you set a 45 or 78 rpm record going on one deck, then, as it was playing, you had to cue up the same record on the second deck so that you could then mix between the two sound sources with no “join”.  The record was Jimmy Shand and His Band (very popular at one time)(“Eightsome Reel”). It was a very tricky job –  very little defined differences between the phrases but we had to hit the exact changeover.  For light relief we took a feed from The Light Programme – as it was then – to mix to – only to find that the Light Programme was playing exactly the same record!

TV Production – Film insert (TK)

The road was shot with a tripod mounted in Chris Pocock’s sports car

There were rules for the use of the TV Studio (Phoenix) …

Woodnorton Canteen Evening Menu for May 1963

Here is the club guide issued to the course members on TO 16:

Wood Norton Hall Welfare and Club Guide – TO16

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Transport to and from Woodnorton Hall to the BBC Club and the high life of Evesham:

Evesham Great Western Station in 1962: no 7031 “Cromwell’s Castle” with the 5.39 from Paddington – and then onward to Worcester and Hereford. This scene could still be seen in 1963.

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