January 7th 2011
I am now adding all thoughts about Ray to a new page in Recollections as they come in.
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January 6th 2011
Ray Johnson RIP
January 1st 2011
Dave Devlin was watching the “Two Ronnies, the studio recordings” just before Christmas and spotted some shots of VT and TK in the titles. The material was shot around the late 70s, and I have grabbed a few stills. An edited version of the title sequence can be found in VT on TV just below the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook titles. Can anyone out there remember being part of the show?
Or, this VT engineer?
Were you the TK operator?
Anyone recognise the Sound Supervisor?
And, finally, any familiar faces in the gallery?
Along with the DVD of the programme, Dave sent this C Course exam paper he sat in June 1970 – apologies for the missing corner, but it is over 40 years old!!!
December 19th 2010
The two remembrances of Dan George and Rob Deacon are now available in Recollections.
December 10th 2010
More sad news in recent days.
Dan GeorgeRIP
Rob Deacon RIP
December 4th 2010
Along with pictures of the Surbiton Lunch, Rod Green has sent me the photograph below of the new Salford Quays development – thanks very much, Rod.
November 6th 2010
Bob Oakley has dug out this job advertisement from 1970, some 8½ years prior to Ian Williams’ editor’s advert on October 5th.
October 16th 2010
Gary Critcher has just sent me this picture of ….. Tape Servicing. Although for many of us this bears no relationship to our experience of Tape Servicing in the early days, it has prompted me to add a new section explaining the development of servicing tape which will most likely appear shortly as on offshoot of Hardware. The photo, featuring Gary and a load of kit(!) was taken in the Tape Servicing area in the Basement next door to VT Despatch. Gary reckons the date is around 1985.
As my experience of servicing was twenty years earlier(!) any additional information and pictures from over the years would be greatly appreciated – especially any technical notes about the machinery used, and locations for the area.
October 8th 2010
Information about Roger Harvey’s funeral has just come in from John Llewellyn.
“Roger’s funeral is on Friday 15th October, 09.40 at Kingston Crematorium. At the moment the plans are family only; no flowers. This might change. Cause of death was heart-failure. Please pass this information on and I will send further e-mails if I hear of any developments.”
John has a fairly vast distribution list and we will try and keep you up to date here as well.
Wrong Geoff! (see below) I’ve just received an email from Geoff Taylor (Shift 1 boss at the time) :-
“I was never one for keeping a detailed diary, but often jotted down the highlights of GMcDonough’s message from the day before, as relayed on audio cassette. For what it’s worth, on 31 October 1978, I find the entry “Editor:KP”. So the money’s on Ken Pimenta getting the job, unless someone knows better!”
Over to you Ken!!!
October 5th 2010
After the sad news of the past couple of months, Ian Williams has cheered me up a bit with this job advertisement from 1978 – I’m looking for a permanent home for it, most likely in Editing.
However, before that, does anyone out remember applying for that job? It closed on September 5th 1978.
As a memory jogger, this was shortly after the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta – perhaps Geoff Higgs can recall the board – he was a boss then!
The two remembrances of RDH and Henry are now available in Recollections, along with further recollections of colleagues who are no longer with us.