I have just heard from Yvonne Littlewood that Frank Holland, former Property Master, died last week.

Apparently Frank was suffering from parkinson's disease, and had been in hospital for the past three months.

Frank started at Alexandra Palace, for the BBC Television Service, as a call-boy and retired as Property Master.

A few years ago Frank donated the BBC Prop Book to the APTS Archives.  This was a record of all properties in the stores circa mid-1950s.  Until this record book was devised items of props had been known by who used them most; there was the Algenon Blackwood chair, the Philip Harben counter, the Joan Gilbert chair, the Kaleidoscope set!  This was confusing for new people, so a system of numbers was devised and Frank implemented it.

Frank was a mine of information and was a delightful man to talk with.  Yet another original member of the Alexandra Palace staff is no longer with us!

Sadly, Yvonne did not know any of the funeral details, so I am unable to pass these on.