The Camera Room at the B.E.C.G. Broadcast Engineering Museum in Hemswell Cliff

The Camera Room at the Broadcast Engineering Museum, Capper Avenue, Hemswell Cliff, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, DN21 5XS. This video is a tour around the camera room, with commentary. The next open day is in September 2024. Please see link below for the Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group's website. Many thanks to them, and especially to trustee Mr. Richard Harris for showing us around the museum.
becg.org.uk/

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What a fascinating video - a glimpse into my past in a couple of respects, one going just under a decade back and the other around five.
In late 2014 I went for a Tour Guide interview day in Manchester at the 'Coronation Street' set. Sadly, I wasn't successful, but it was a fascinating experience all the same. As part of the interview process there was a role-play where one had to imagine one was a personality on the Manchester musical scene taking a tour round the city on a musical theme. As I'm a bit of a Hollies fan and a wannabe drummer I chose to play Bobby Elliott, which puzzled many of my co-interviewees, who were mostly considerably younger than 'Yours Truly'! At that time I had yet to discover the female Pop of the former Soviet Bloc, that coming in the following year. Had the interview day taken place around a year-and-a-half later, after discovering that Helena Blehárová had played at the 'Daily Mail' International Jazz Festival of 1963, at Belle Vue, Manchester I'd probably have played her, which may have been yet more mystifying!
I see that you focussed on a VCR machine from what you described as your school days. That's the precise make and model that my late mother would have used as the Audio-Visual Aids Technician at the freshly-built Belper High School, where she started in early 1974, shortly after the school's first-ever Christmas/New Year holiday. At that time my older brother had already started at the new school, continuing the O-Levels he had started in the Fourth Form at Herbert Strutt School and I was to follow him up there in September of that year, becoming part of the first-ever academic year making the transition from Fourth Year at Herbert Strutt Middle School to the Lower Year at Belper High School, the Middle Year being my first academic year taking my O-Levels, while my older brother was finishing his A-Levels.
A quarter-century before starting at Belper High School my mother, in the year she turned nineteen, made a two-sided 78 RPM private recording accompanied by her mother on the piano and on the day I learned of her passing in February 2017 I recorded and uploaded that recording to my channel as a tribute to her memory. I hope you enjoy that should you drop by those videos.

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Thank you for your comment and I'm delighted you like the video, Christopher. Love the story about the tour guide interview. I don't think I'd be brave enough to go along to one of those, especially with role-play involved, so it sounds like you did well even to get shortlisted. I'd love to have one of those Ferguson VCRs - they're built like tanks! Bryan, who filmed this video, does have one so I'm very envious:) Will certainly check out the 78rpm record that your mother appears on. What a great and unusual reminder of her to have.