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Title: Buildings - new and old
Post by Forum Admin on May 11^th, 2004, 6:51pm

New buildings
The BBC's new "media village" - five new buildings on the White City site - is to be opened on Wednesday May 12.
There is a large amount of information available from this page of the BBC Web site.
Historic buildings
There are also information pages about the history of 10 BBC buildings, nine of them in the London area, plus Wood Norton.
These are available from this page on the BBC Web site.

Title: Re: Buildings - new and old
Post by pamie on Feb 13^th, 2007, 10:25pm

:)i am trying to trace some old photos of the dickenson road studios manchester where my father James Buddle worked until it closed i would be grateful if anybody has some to send to me i am trying to build up a book on my fathers life with the bbc until he died. thankyou in anticipation his daughter pamela.

Title: Re: Buildings - new and old
Post by John Noakes on Feb 14^th, 2007, 9:51am

Pamela,

I am sorry that I can't provide any photos of Dickenson Road Studios but I would like to say that I learnt a lot from your father when I was posted to Manchester for two years on joining the BBC.

I hope you make progress with your Dad's life story, family history can be very rewarding if not a little frustrating at times.

Regards,
John Noakes

Title: Re: Buildings - new and old
Post by pamie on Feb 14^th, 2007, 9:22pm

thank you for your reply i know my father always enjoyed passing on his knowledge and his work at the bbc was important to him as much as his family.
Regards Pamela

Title: Re: Buildings - new and old
Post by John Noakes on Feb 14^th, 2007, 10:36pm

Pamela,

I have found one photo of Dickenson Road but it is not of the outside of the building. See this web site http://www.bakerlite.co.uk/beeb.htm

The Manchester Evening News has many references to the Dickenson Road Studio and so I wonder if they might have photos.

John

Title: Re: Buildings - new and old
Post by ian on Mar 9^th, 2007, 10:53pm

Malcolm Carr has posted a photo of Dickenson Road Studios on the tech-ops website:
http://tech-ops.co.uk/phpBB2/index.php

and I've just transferred it to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:dickenson.jpg

Regards Ian H

Title: Re: Buildings - new and old
Post by pamie on Mar 9^th, 2007, 11:12pm

:)thank you for the info the photo is great beginning to build up quite a profile on my father now and still looking for any photos if any body out there have any of my father james buddle also would be grateful

Title: Re: Buildings - new and old
Post by Ian on Mar 14^th, 2007, 10:56am

As well as such programmes as Top of the Pops, Juke Box Jury, and Dee Time - Dickenson Road produced a lot of children's programmes, Sooty, Pinky & Perky, etc.....

C:\DocumentsandSettings\Master\MyDocuments\pinkyandperky.jpg
Jan & Vlasta Dalibor with Bertie Bonkers & Morton Frog on a BBC Camera (maybe even at Dickenson Road) from
Pinky and Perky Show 1960's

For more see: http://www.pinkyandperky.co.uk

Regards Ian

C:\DocumentsandSettings\Master\MyDocuments\DickensonRd.jpg

Title: Re: Buildings - new and old
Post by Bill_Jenkin on Jun 2^nd, 2007, 10:48am

There are some pics of the demolition of BH Extension here
http://www.bostonmanor.plus.com/ExBHComms/Demolition_Pics_index.html