GeoffR wrote on Aug 14th, 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.
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.
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