Photo from John Waldron, no reproduction without permission.
This photo is of cameraman, Andy Payne, on a Doctors’ shoot, in Ladywood, Birmingham. Andy, sadly died last month.
‘Terry’ in the caption is director, Terry Iland.
Thanks to John Waldron for sharing the photo.
Photos from Lyn Washbrook, no reproduction without permission.
These photos are from wrap parties in 2002 and 2003, for the continuing drama series, Doctors.
Andy Payne and Dave Farline were the first cameramen that Lyn met when she started working on Doctors in 2001; sadly neither of them are still with us.
Andy is second from the left, in the top photo, also included are Kenny Ralston, Tom Hines and Ben Hoffmann. Thanks to Merlyn Mary Miller Rice for identifying everyone.
Photo from Andy Walters, no reproduction without permission.
BBC Radio Birmingham presenters Pete Simpkin and Richard Jeffs, with BBC WM presenter Danny Kelly, live from Sutton Park this morning [4th August 2016] with memories of the summer of 1976.
The following comment was left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Colin Pierpoint: ‘I remember the hot summer of 1976, the Pebble Mill front lawn turned brown. The government appointed a minister for drought; the BBC followed him making live statements on the television news, and everywhere he went it rained!’
Photo from Karen Lamb, no reproduction without permission.
The photo shows the Pebble Mill camera crews and dates from the early 1990s, probably from the leaving do of Robin Sunderland, and perhaps Dave Wilkins.
Included are:
Back row, Phil Wilson, Doug Smith, Noel Paley, James French, Adrian Kelly, Don Cooper, Dave Lawson (far left)
Middle row, Karen Lamb, Eric Wise, Dave Farline, Dave Wilkins, Dave Ballantyne,
Front row, Keith Salmon, Robin Sunderland, Andy Payne, John Moorcroft.
Radio Links
Dave Thumpston and Graham Hewitt in Radio Links van. Photo by Colin Pierpoint, no reproduction without permission.
Here is a photograph in one of the Birmingham Radio Links vehicles, with Graham Hewitt (right) and Dave Thumpston. To me, the routing of television signal was no different from sound switching
in the control room; you check the quality, pass the signal on, and if there is a fault you query it with the previous station. But there were some Comms staff who resented me coming in from Operations, and what they saw incorrectly as the “Radio” Control Room. Some gave me advice on how to do the job “on the road”, not realising that I had already done many Outside Broadcasts for Radio OBs in the Audio Unit.
Engineering
I was used quite a bit for real engineering with a soldering iron, working to Stan Smith the ACSE (Assistant Communications Systems Engineer). He got me to supervise the wiremen putting in new jumpers on the main distribution frame in the basement of Pebble Mill. Jumpering is adding pairs of wires to provide new circuits. It was necessary because the Comms Centre as it was handed over after installation to Birmingham staff, was missing quite a lot of sound circuits.