{"id":4676,"date":"2015-12-02T08:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T08:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=4676"},"modified":"2024-03-24T14:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:01:48","slug":"blue-peter-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/blue-peter-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBlue Peter\u201d Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Andrew Dixon<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When I went to have a good look around while the art installation was in the scenery block recently (2015).  I persuaded a security man at the car park entrance to let me take the attached photo. Hastily shot as you can see! It’s the first level car ramp in the multi story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The square in the floor contained the \u201cBlue Peter\u201d time capsule and the nearby wall, a plaque (now missing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I lit the transmission of the laying in state sometime around 1985. Firmly engraved on my memory as just before TX the sun (reflected off something I suppose) came smack down the camera lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder if anyone remembers the occasion, or has details of the box’s contents? What happened to it and to the plaque?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second photo I could call “here lie the remains of my first appointment”… TK engineer 1968! Very sad to see it now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Neill<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I recently e-mailed the current \u201cBlue Peter\u201d editor about the hanging that used to be above the walkway to the canteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judging by the tone of this reply, the time capsule will be safe. Somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201c…I\u2019ve got some good news for you. Before TVC closed I personally made sure
     that all our \u201cBlue Peter\u201d heritage items were removed and they are now either in
     storage or with us at MediaCity. The barkcloth that you mention is now within
     the British Museum collection and below is a link to more information about it.
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     With best wishes from everyone at Blue Peter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Ewan…\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dick Blencowe<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I was on the crew, as SA2, that did the time capsule laying in the car park, but I can’t remember what was in it or the date. The main show came from TC3 in which the scene doors opened opposite East Hill which led down to the railway arch with the new car park beyond. The car park was not finished and was a building site. The builders had prepared the hole ready on the ramp and filled it with concrete after the box was lowered in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cables were rigged through the scene doors and down the road to the car park and I think the doors remained at least ajar or fully open during the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show started in the studio with an item unrelated to the time capsule and I remember silly comments as I operated the boom with wellies on: the car park was muddy. It was not summer as I remember using a wet weather jacket from stores but it didn’t rain. After the first item in the studio there was a film sequence while we all moved down to the car park and I believe the show good byes were from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recall a programme driving a vintage or veteran car up to the roof when the car park was completed, was this \u201cBlue Peter\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colin Hassell<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I remember working on that \u201cBlue Peter\u201d too, in the Car Park building site. It must have been sometime before the end of 1982, as that\u2019s when I transferred to OBs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some years later I was lent back to Studios and worked on a \u201cBlue Peter\u201d which had an item involving an elephant, out in the Ring Road. Dave Silk suggested that I should man the 816 being an OBs chap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albert Barber<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anyone remember the time an Elephant sat on one of the TVC\u2019s bollards and crushed it and they banned filming at TVC?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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