[QuadList] The Closing of BBC Television Centre

[Brian Summers]

Hi All 
 
My friend Joe, sent me this link and message;-
 
"I spent New Years Day at TV Centre with my camera. I've made my pics  into
a slideshow - thought you might enjoy!"
http://youtu.be/zTqWBEbBxZw=

It brought a little lump to my throat, so empty, so sad!

Regards


Brian S

See the Virtual Museum's  Web Site at www.tvcameramuseum.org  
 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Quinn [mailto:tony at tqvideo.co.uk] 
> Sent: 25 March 2013 17:46
> To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com
> Subject: Re: [QuadList] The Closing of BBC Television Centre
> 
> In message <FFA3B4F3C3534C9DB2AB9EF03B903BA2 at DavidVAIO>, 
> David Dean <dixie at westpoint.tv> writes
> >
> >
> >Hi List
> >
> > 
> >
> >As some of you may already know BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane 
> >London has closed its doors for the last time, as a former employee 
> >there I have to say it bought a tear to my eye. In it?s Quad heyday 
> >there were at least 40 2? Quads there with VR 1200s, VR2000s, TR70s, 
> >AVR2s, 1 AVR1 and a Slomo disk recorder.  This was my 
> introduction to 
> >all this technology in the late 1970s working in the ?Television 
> >Recording Group? (Telecine and VT).
> >
> > 
> >
> >It has been sold to a property company for £200,000,000 
> although they 
> >are ?mothballing? 3 studios, one of which was the biggest tv 
> studio in 
> >Europe. One comment I heard was if they took all the copper 
> wiring out 
> >the place it would probably fall down, and cause a severe dip in the 
> >price of copper!! I for one will sadly miss the old place, I 
> was there 
> >for 8 years and was proud to have worked in the building.
> 
> Much as I hate "me too" posts .... me too :)
> --
> "Remember how stupid the average person is, then realize that 
> half of them are stupider than that.  - G. Carlin"
> 
> 
>