{"id":1066,"date":"2012-07-06T14:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2012-07-07T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T10:05:33","slug":"practical-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/2012\/07\/practical-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Mags, Vids, and Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the Dorking Book Fair….. where a man wanted \u00a340 for a huge pile of ancient Practical \u00a0Television and Practical Radio magazines. \u00a0I couldn’t quite get interested in articles on how to service the Ferguson 922T receiver and similar stuff (though I can copy the item if anyone needs to know). I did notice, though, that a number of the covers featured familiar places and people, so I did a slightly over priced deal and bought just a few….<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

Is that Colin Reid in the first one?<\/p>\n

Here’s an article about the new BBC Television headquarters in Shepherds Bush, taken from the March 1960 edition….<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n

A much more readable version is here<\/a><\/p>\n

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At the end of 2011, John Henshall caused a storm amongst the anorak fraternity by remembering that he had a copy of David Bowie singing “The Jean Genie” on Top of the Pops. It turned out that he had the only copy –<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yEmGQYCuc6M[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

John is even in the show –<\/p>\n

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Anyway, all this stirred Peter Hider into remembering that John was his lab partner at Evesham –<\/p>\n

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Bill Parkinson, the\u00a0Studio Team Leader at BBC Westminster, has a very high resolution version of the TC Higgs and Hill plan from the 1950s. This isn’t it, as the file is 30Mb. The big one is here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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