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Wood Norton Course Photographs
Mar 21^st, 2010, 3:50pm

Would anyone know what happened to all the Course Photographs which were taken at Wood Norton (many of which were hung on the walls of the Main building) when that facility was closed?
I know there are copies of many photos of the SM courses (and related) to be found on the Old SMs website - but what happened to all the others? Surely they weren't just abandoned in the haste to rid the Corporation of one of its most undervalued resources?
Do they exist in some unrevealed store? Huh

Could they be made available somehow, in a similar way to the aforementioned SM photographs?

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Amigo Full Member Offline Posts: 174	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #1 - Mar 21^st, 2010, 4:30pm What a good question. I'd like to see my old TO, STO, and "A" course photographs as well! They will probably be residing in some land-fill site near Evesham.
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F.M. Junior Member Offline Posts: 64	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #2 - Mar 22^nd, 2010, 7:22am A few years ago I contacted Wood Norton & requested my ITO group photograph. They were happy to oblige & swiftly dispatched hard copies to me. I'm pleased now that I asked for them.
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Mikej Full Member Offline Posts: 230	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #3 - Mar 22^nd, 2010, 2:35pm There are of course (sic) many at http://www.vtoldboys.com/main.htm with ETD ones especially at http://www.vtoldboys.com/etd/etd.htm and at http://www.oldsms.co.uk/main.php Mike
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Reply #4 - Mar 23^rd, 2010, 9:45am

Are there any members of TA course 16 in the early sixties...I have photos if required. We were not TOs but as so many of us were from the then 'new' subregional ' studios and had to carry out both TA and TO operations we were permitted to produce a TV programme at WN in the old great Hall...one chap...name long gone...from Belfast... built a custom vision mier and we had an enornmout amount of fun and learned much to take back to our little news studios.

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F.M. Junior Member Offline Posts: 64	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #5 - Mar 23^rd, 2010, 9:52am Those sites are fantastic. Thanks very much for the links. One of the first photos I clicked on was of Sidney Lotterby & a crowd of r o's & editors in main block VT at TV Centre. I worked with him in the mid 80's on 'Yes Prime Minister'.
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Dickie Mint Senior Member Offline Posts: 261 Solihull, West Midlands Gender:	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #6 - Mar 31^st, 2010, 5:58pm F.M. wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2010, 7:22am: A few years ago I contacted Wood Norton & requested my ITO group photograph. They were happy to oblige & swiftly dispatched hard copies to me. I'm pleased now that I asked for them. Couldn't give me the name at Wood Norton, could you please? Richard
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F.M. Junior Member Offline Posts: 64	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #7 - Apr 1^st, 2010, 8:28am Pauline Smith\| PA to Head of LP&S and LD BBC Training & Development\|Wood Norton, Evesham WR11 4PY \| T: (01386 4) 20206 \| M: 07739 920298\| E: pauline.smith@bbc.co.uk there you go.
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Dickie Mint Senior Member Offline Posts: 261 Solihull, West Midlands Gender:	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #8 - Apr 1^st, 2010, 11:09am Thanks F.M. Have emailed her today. Fingers crossed. Richard
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JohnW Senior Member Offline Posts: 282 Eggington, Bedfordshire Gender:	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #9 - Apr 11^th, 2010, 3:24pm Be interested to know how you got on!!
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the graphics error YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Glasgow Gender:	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #10 - Apr 20^th, 2010, 9:08pm more Wood Norton photos can be found @ http://www.bbceng.info/Information/training_top.htm I know one of the Em's in pq managed to salvage quite a few when the green sheds at the top of the compound were aboy to be demolished I'll try and find if he has uploaded them somewhere and post address!
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Dickie Mint Senior Member Offline Posts: 261 Solihull, West Midlands Gender:	Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs Reply #11 - Apr 21^st, 2010, 5:59pm JohnW wrote on Apr 11^th, 2010, 3:24pm: Be interested to know how you got on!! Just back from holiday in England, so have only just seen your post. Pauline is a star! She found a few photos for me. I'm still looking for the TA32 part 1 one though..... Richard
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Re: Wood Norton Course Photographs
Reply #12 - Apr 24^th, 2010, 8:37am

more Wood Norton photos can be found @ http://www.bbceng.info/Information/training_top.htm

I know one of the Em's in pq managed to salvage quite a few when the green sheds at the top of the compound were aboy to be demolished I'll try and find if he has uploaded them somewhere and post address!

I remember some of the faces from the 93' photo.
Steve Westlake, Roger Wyatt, Neal Garner (who I met at TV Centre just before taking up his new post at WN), Simon Pilbeam ( still going strong training Avid users I believe), Ian Wheyms, Hugh Robjohns. These are a few who taught on my variuos corses over the years. No Mike Collier though. I guess he must have retired by then.

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