Photo from Maggy Whitehouse, no reproduction without permission.
The photo is of the ‘Pebble Mill at One’ production team.
Included are, left to right, back row: Magnus Magnusson, Norma Scott, David Lancaster, Josephine Buchan, Anne Varley, Bob Langley, Pat Langley, Steph Silk, Steve Weddle. Crouching: David Weir, Jane Clement, Viv Ellis, Marian Foster, Di Reid. Front row: Jo Dewar, Beverleigh Wildman (now Thompson), Sue Ashcroft, Peta Newbold, Paul Coia.
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This photo was taken just after the last ever ‘Pebble Mill at One’ on 23 May 1986. In fact you can just see the last few members of the audience leaving on the left hand side of the photo.
Included in the photo are:
Back row: Michael Smith (celebrity chef), David Lancaster (glasses), Caroline Marshall, Steve Weddle.
Next to back: Julian Hitchcock (with pink balloon), Chris Wright, Roger Sutton (just behind the others), possibly Barrie Edgar peeking out behind, Tony Rayner, Peter Urie, Peter Hercombe, Claire Chambers, Norma Scott, Mary Clyne, Mark Kershaw, Trudy Stanton, Steph Silk, Richard ?.
Third row from back: Girl in red dress below Tony Rayner is Jacqui Goodwin, Fran Groves, Ann Varley, Di Reid (red dress), Margaret Allen (with belt), John Westcott (FM), Annie Gumbley Williams (standing purple dress)
Back seated row: Sue Ashcroft, Debbie Hood, Caroline Matthews, Denny Hodge , Paul Coia
Middle seated row: Gareth Williams, Jo Buchan, Magnus Magnusson, Marian Foster, Bob Langley, Bev Wildman (Thompson), David Weir
Fron row: Tom Ross (standing), Eileen Bayliss just behind Tom, Maggy Whitehouse, Jane Clement, Viv Ellis, Peta Newbold, Colette Foster (central short brown dress), Nicky Barfoot, Claire Stride, Jane McLean, Jo Dewar
Please add a comment if you can fill in any of the people not identified.
Thanks to Mark Kershaw for making the photograph available.
Photos from Gail Herbert, no reproduction without permission.
‘Beautywise’ was the BBC’s first television series devoted to beauty. It had a magazine format and was produced at Pebble Mill for BBC 1 Daytime, under Daytime Editor, Stephanie Silk. The series was presented by beauty journalist, Liz Earle, with reporter Karen Krizanovich. Celia Marks was S.P, Pam Relton the researcher, with Annette Martin producer/director, and Julia Gray directing. The production team also included Claire Campbell, production assistant, Gail Herbert and production secretary, Kulvinder Chudge. The series included studio items and recorded inserts. The location shoots involved some foreign filming in L.A, as shown in the photos.
Beautywise team
Order of Service - Andy's funeral
Andy Meikle’s funeral today was a bitter sweet occasion. It was sad to be saying goodbye to a man who was loved and appreciated by so many people – for his humour, his positive attitude on life and his ability to get stuck in and complete the task in hand, whether that task was a television programme, a DIY job, or some other project.
A lone piper led the cortege into the Crematorium and to the Chapel. There was standing room only inside, and the service is one he would have approved of – a celebration of Andy’s life, rather than all sadness and tears. The coffin was banded with tape – the lower layer advised ‘handle with care’, whilst the upper one said ‘this way up’. Andy would certainly have appreciated the thought – and that health and safety was important to the end!
The service consisted of some well chosen readings, including a verse read by Jon Meikle (Andy’s eldest son), and a beautifully written poem by one of Andy’s grandchildren, Holly, as well as moving memories about Andy’s life at the BBC and beyond by John Williams, and about his childhood and youth by his brother, David. David Hogg (Nicola Silk’s partner) spoke eloquently about his memories of Andy. There were smiles as well as tears – and the service was a certainly a celebration of life rather than a commemoration of death.
It was fitting to see so many former BBC colleagues, and old friends, at Andy’s send off – and lovely to share thoughts of him with them.
There was also a silver lining for me, in meeting up with some of the people who’ve contributed to this website – but that I hadn’t known before!
Our thoughts are with Steph and family, and with Andy’s sons and family at this sad time.
Vanessa
Front door of the ‘On The House’ house
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On The House was a popular DIY magazine programme which went out on Friday evenings on BBC 2 in the late 1980s.
It spawned a whole host of other DIY series in both the daytime and primetime schedules.
The actual house was a timber framed, brick clad house which was erected in the grounds of BBC Pebble Mill behind the main office block. There was an excellent time-lapse sequence of the house being erected. The house operated as a television studio, and was set up so that it was easy to shoot in. You also had to remember not to use the toilet – as it wasn’t connected to any sewage pipes!
The show was the brainchild of producer Andy Meikle with Steph Silk the series producer.
The show was presented by Harry Greene (father of Sarah Greene), Rick Ball and Pattie Coldwell.
