Dub 3 – photos by Ben Peissell

Photos by Ben Peissell, no reproduction without permission.

These photos are of Dubbing Theatre 3 at BBC Pebble Mill.

Ben Peissell was one of the dubbing mixers at Pebble Mill, who worked across a range of programmes in different dubbing theatres.

Dub 3

 

 

 

CM2

 

 

CM 2

Leigh Sinclair in CM2

Photos by Ben Peissell and Tim Savage, no reproduction without permission.

The lower photo shows VT Editor, Leigh Sinclair in CM2.

CM2 was an outside broadcast truck based at BBC Pebble Mill.  It normally had two cameras controlled from it, and was used to record programmes like ‘Gardeners’ World’, before portable single cameras became the norm in the mid 1980s.

Mike Bloore was a VT editor who worked on CM2:

‘There was no edit controller on CM2’s VTR’s. There was only a button to start both machines at the same time and trust to luck! On ‘Gardeners World’ we often did “roll back and mix” which involved playing back the last shot of the previously recorded sequence through the vision mixer allowing the vision mixer(the person) to mix through to the live camera of the next sequence to be shot while recording the whole event on the other VTR. This enabled mixes on location to be possible with only 2 VTR’s. Then someone invented pre-read but thats another story!’

Mike Bloore

Delicia Picture House – cutting from Gail Herbert

1959 old Delicia Picture House

This press cutting shows the Delicia Picture House in 1959, which was one of the main BBC studios in Birmingham before the opening of BBC Pebble Mill in 1971.

The Gosta Green studios were where many early television studios were recorded.

Thanks to Gail Herbert for making the cutting available.

Pebble Mill Building – photos from Gail Herbert

Copyright resides with the original photographer, no reproduction without permission.

These photos of BBC Pebble Mill date from the early 1970s.

Thanks to Gail Herbert for making them available.

John Major – photo from Gail Herbert

Gail Herbert meeting John Major

Prime Minister John Major visited Pebble Mill in the 1990s and appeared on Good Morning with Anne and Nick for a sofa chat.  He is shown here meeting Gail Herbert, Chair of the BBC Club and P.A., outside the front of Pebble Mill Reception.  Between Gail and John Major is David Wayne, the Head of Building.

You’ll notice that John Major has signed the photo for Gail, who was a supporter of his.