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Title: Peter Rose
Post by GeoffR on Aug 14^th, 2012, 8:31am

My father, Peter Rose has recently passed away (10/08/12)

Dad joined the Beeb in November 1962, worked at Television Centre and was promoted to sound supervisor in 1969. He left television centre in 1979 and moved to BBC Bristol where he worked at Broadcasting House until redundancy in 1994. He continued to do various bits and pieces which reduced to just the Antiques Roadshow. It was during the record of the Antiques Roadshow near Wolverhampton, July 25th-26th that he was taken ill with appendicitis, after surgery he subsequently developed pneumonia and after a two week fight passed away at New Cross hospital, Wolverhampton 10th August 2012.

The funeral will be at St Joseph's Church, Portishead near Bristol, Tuesday 21st August at 11.30am.

Title: Re: Peter Rose
Post by Al Bear on Aug 29^th, 2012, 5:18pm

GeoffR wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012, 8:31am:

This is the tribute in the order of service booklet.
A fitting tribute.
Peter Geoffrey Rose
Born in Evesham 22nd February 1942.

He was baptised, confirmed and altar-served at St Peter's CofE Church,
Bengeworth and attended St Peter's Primary School. He passed the 11+ aged 10
and went to Prince Henry's Grammar School, where he played in the school
orchestra and rowed for the school. He received the Staff Prize for Good Service to
the School and the Randall Memorial Prize for Physics when he left in 1960. He
was also involved doing the lighting for school plays where he met Mary aged 16.
He went to Manchester University to study Electrical Engineering where he also
became a Catholic.

He joined the BBC in November 1962 as Trainee Technical Operator. As a young
Sound Assistant, with colleagues and flatmates they spent many hours making
music (guitars this time) and had a band called the Nochos. He specialised in
Television sound where his musical knowledge found him score-reading for some
top Light Entertainment shows such as the Black and White Minstrel Show. Moving
on to a Sound Supervisor job in 1969, he mixed many light entertainment shows
including the inimitable Monty Python shows.

In April 1964 he and Mary married in St Joseph the Worker Church, Bidford-on-
Avon. The family started to come along beginning with Robert in 1968, then Helen
and Christopher, of whom he was very very proud.
Being roped in to help with the technical side of the South East Berks Gang Show
led to a 20 year involvement with the Scouting movement, first with cubs and later
with scouts.

In 1979 a move to Bristol brought a 4th child Geoffrey in 1980, and a slight change
in focus so that he did Radio and television, studio and outside broadcasts. When
Robert started to play the clarinet, he brought his back out which had barely been
touched since he left school. First Shirehampton Wind Band (now West Bristol
Wind Band), then Portishead Concert Band and latterly a S^-Worle Wind Band,
where he joined daughter and grand-daughter and enjoyed the 3 generations
making music together. He collected various woodwind instruments and played
most of them with PCB!

His music continued into his ministry in the church, where he always sang,
sometimes played, but spent long hours scanning music into the computer to
produce discs to play through the keyboard.

In everything he did he always took great pains to get things right - a true
perfectionist!

He always had an interest in cars and motorbikes starting with a BSA Winged
Wheel with its whiskered-up plug which had to be cleaned once or twice during
the 7 mile ride between Evesham and Bidford. As well as a car for day-to-day use,
he had a succession of cars and motorbikes which were modified, repaired and
rebuilt including a 1937 KSS Velocette, an F2 Morgan 3-wheeler (which he raced),
and a Morgan 4/4 which fell apart after 2 years and he rebuilt over 10 years. As
the family grew he exchanged the F2 for an F4 (4 seats). At one point he sold
everything, but this was followed by the purchase of a box of bits which he rebuilt
into a 1933 Sports 2 sealer, 3-wheeler V-twin Morgan (with body frame built by
his Dad).

In the early 1990s, being made redundant by the BBC, he continued to work on TV
programmes as a freelance Sound Supervisor, including work on Antiques
Roadshow for 34 years. At the same time, answering the call to start training for
the Diaconate, he was ordained in October 1998 and has faithfully served God and
the Community to the best of his ability, following the Scouting maxims 'Be
Prepared' and 'Do your Best'. He was never prepared to accept that something
had outlived its usefulness and would make every attempt to perform a repair
even if it was a Heath-Robinson job!

He was working on Antiques Roadshow when he was taken ill. After two weeks in
Critical Care in Wolverhampton Hospital he died on the 10th August 2012 on the
feast of St Lawrence, a 3rd Century Deacon.

The parish has loved him as their Deacon, but for us, the family, he was a loving,
clever, funny, musical, thoughtful, unassuming, dedicated, sometimes-grumpy-
always hard-working, much-loved nutcase of a family member.

He will leave a big gap, but he will always be with us.

Title: Re: Peter Rose
Post by PatrickH on Aug 29^th, 2012, 6:02pm

Pete Rose was a contemporary of mine at TVC in the 60's - a really nice chap, we got on well.
Following his sad death, Bob Foley, another chum, and I attended the funeral on Tuesday 21st August.
It was in Portishead, beyond Bristol, and Bob kindly undertook the driving.
A full RC Requiem Mass was celebrated and the Church was packed to overflowing, with extra accommodation being provided in the church hall
and a marquee in the grounds, with a video/audio link from the Church.
Excellent picture and sound quality, and the singing was splendid.
Afterwards, delicious and plentiful refreshments were in a sports/social club in the town.

Peter's wife, Mary, was very pleased to see some of his old colleagues from TVC; apart from Bob and I, there were John Howell ('Hibou') and his wife, Dave Mundy, John Wilson and Martin Harries (think that's the spelling?)

Pat Heigham (Tech Ops 1962-68)

Title: Re: Peter Rose
Post by Administrator on Dec 30^th, 2012, 10:21pm

Tonight's transmission of "Antiques Roadshow" included a tribute caption to Peter within the closing credit sequence.

Title: Re: Peter Rose
Post by Administrator on Mar 20^th, 2013, 10:01pm

An old friend of Peter has kindly sent this memory of Peter to our site:-

"As a boy of around 8 I remember Peter who lived at the back of our house in Ascot. I remember being fascinated by the fact he worked on top of the pops which was a huge program back in the day where he met all the stars. I also remember him acquiring a morgan for a short time. He encouraged me to take up guitar and when I was about 14 he had to put up with the racket we made as a schoolboy band with electric guitars blaring out from our practice sessions at our house in Mill Ride. He never complained, just encouraged us. Eventually in 1977 I left Mill ride and went to work in London at Laskys in Oxford Street where I served on the calculator counter with a preening 18 year old called Simon Cowell but occasionaly went back to Mill ride until my mum also moved to another part of Ascot and by then Peter had moved away. I always used to look to see if his name came up in the credits on programs but didn't see anything for years until the antiques road show. I too lived in Wolverhampton for a while near New Cross before moving abroad to Ibiza, so was sad to hear that Peter had been taken ill there. I remember him with fondness and wish his family all the best for the future as my father too has past away so understand how they feel. He was a good man and they can rightly be proud of his achievements and inspiration.

Dave Butler"