Category: Factual

Gardener of the Year 1999 – Vanessa Jackson

Photos by Vanessa Jackson, no reproduction without permission.

These photos were taken on location shoots for the heats of the ‘Gardener of the Year’ competition in late spring 1999.  They show gardening expert Nigel Colborn interviewing contributors, and visiting their gardens.

The ‘Gardener of the Year’ competition began in 1999.  It comprised of regional heats, which were held at the Botanical Gardens of Wales, and then a Final which was held at the Earth Centre in Doncaster.  The regional heats included question rounds on a specialist subject, a general knowledge gardening round, as well as skills tests, and a visit to the shortlisted candidates’ gardens. The judges included Nigel Colborn, Adam Pasco and Ali Ward.  The series was presented by Alan Titchmarsh.

I was the series producer of the competition in its first year. Subsequently the regional heats were dropped, but the Final, which included designing and building a show garden remained for the next ten years.Roger Casstles was the executive producer.

The competition was transmitted on BBC 2 in the Gardeners’ World Friday night slot in the run up to Christmas.

Vanessa Jackson

 

 

 

Golden Oldie Picture Show – ‘After the Gold Rush’ – photos by Gail Herbert



Photos by Gail Herbert, no reproduction without permission.

These photos are of a location shoot for the 1980’s series: ‘Golden Oldie Picture Show’, presented by Dave Lee Travis.  The show was made up of specially shot music videos, created for hits which pre-dated the advent of commercial music videos.  John King was the executive producer.

This shoot was for the 1970 Neil Young hit, ‘After the Gold Rush’.

The first photo includes Gail Herbert, with the clipboard, who was the PA on the series. Camerman, Jim Knights, is on the right hand side in the white shirt. The third photo shows Gail testing out the racing car!

Please add a comment if you can identify the other people in the photos.

Children in Need – photos from Ruth Kiosses

Andria Fletcher, Ruth Kiosses, Alex Pargeter

Ruth Kiosses

Ruth Kiosses & Andria Fletcher

Photos from Ruth Kiosses, no reproduction without permission.

The photos were taken at Pebble Mill on a ‘Children in Need’ day, with the Wardrobe department volunteering and manning the phones.

‘The photos date from 1991/2. It was the busiest week of the Wardrobe year with van loads of costumes arriving daily from TVC and our own Selly Oak stores. You couldn’t move in the basement for costume rails ready for the CIN broadcast in the evening. It was always stressful but fun on the night. We raised a lot of cash dressed as a racehorse from Pebble Mill’s drama ‘Trainer’ one year, and yes, I was the back end! ‘

Ruth Kiosses

Pebble Mill at One, Bob Langley – Jane Mclean

 

Bob Langley on location in Italy

(This memory is of an incident which occurred in the 1970s, when Jane Mclean was working on autocue on ‘Pebble Mill at One’).

The one and only time I ever saw Bob Langley lose his rag was when I had altered the autocue/loo roll so much that it was too thick to go through the machine and stuck. Too much for Bob who couldn’t speak his own name without autocue – bless!! – so when autocue stopped, so did he!!

Jane Mclean

(photo by Ian Collins)

Golden Oldie Picture Show – ‘He’s in Town’ – photo by Gail Herbert

Photo by Gail Herbert, no reproduction without permission.

‘The Golden Oldie Picture Show’ was an entertainment show consisting of specially shot videos for music hits which predated the era of music videos.  The show included a number of different music videos each week, linked by Radio 1 DJ, Dave Lee Travis. It went out between 1985-8.

The show was produced at Pebble Mill by John King.

This photo is of the location shoot in Bristol of the hit ‘He’s in Town’.  I’m sure which version of the song was used.

Gail Herbert was the production assistant on the series.