HTV West late night continuity and closedown, January 1988 - Annie St John

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  • @steveh31
    @steveh31 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Oh Annie, Annie, Annie you were the best continuity announcer ever RIP

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes - I must admit, I felt she was rather false & 'cutesy', but with maturity I see she had a warm heart & cared 4 the viewers. She made them feel she was a pal I'm sure that meaht a great deal especially 2 thcse that were widcwed etc.
      What a sad, premature death she had.

  • @d8a2k7
    @d8a2k7 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The only continuity announcer you'd stay up late for.... I was only 11. Miss you Annie :'(

  • @peteralansmith2568
    @peteralansmith2568 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Annies headstone is in Carleton cemetery in blackpool, not far from the lodge in a secluded area which is accessible to the public. Its beneath a tree.

  • @Jarvamon
    @Jarvamon 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've updated Annie's WP entry myself using official records (yes, she was definitely from Blackpool).

  • @antster1983
    @antster1983 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Annie was also on 3-2-1 as one of the troupe of hostesses, the Gentle Secs. She was on the first series.

  • @RobinCarmody
    @RobinCarmody 16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The phrase "Maintenance Shop" comes up in the Guardian's listings for 21 Jan (note that I haven't actually been able to read them, but you can still use the search engine anyway) but not for any other day that week. So I think we can reasonably assume it's the 21st.

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Although I live in the New Forest as well as receiving Southern Television,Telvision South and Meridian I also could receive HTV WEST. The late Annie St. John,as well as being one of the first two hostess on Yorkshire Telvisions 321 programme,also announced forv Tyne TeesTelevision and LWT. A shame she died so young. But will always be remembered as one of the great persons of Regional ITV. Disabled UK Carrer. GOD BLESS!

  • @RobinCarmody
    @RobinCarmody 16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Annie St John is ... *interesting*, here.
    This is from the night of Thursday 21st January 1988, early hours of Friday 22nd (check the BFI listings for Tales of the Unexpected).

  • @CJODell12
    @CJODell12 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    By October 1988, all 15 regions of the ITV network were broadcasting 24 hours a day. BBC1 kept closing down for the night until November 1997.

    • @peterwilliamskelhorn6675
      @peterwilliamskelhorn6675 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @CJODell12 when the BBC news channel started overnight on bbc 1 (when it was called BBC news 24)

  • @cadoxton18
    @cadoxton18 ปีที่แล้ว

    Although we got HTV Wales, we used to tune into HTV West just to see Annie.
    She was so friendly and down to earth.
    Real shame what happened 😪

  • @hhondahornet
    @hhondahornet 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    remember annie and michael in happier days in cardiff, with the 2cv red/white, they were my next door neighbours........annie, if your looking down on us from heaven, i am still really sorry for flooding your house!

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Awww very sad that her marriage failed. Had she stayed happy with him & maybe had kids, she'd likely still be here.

  • @pubwebmaster
    @pubwebmaster 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A fascinating collection of adverts there. I had no idea Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie has advertised tobacco. Also the British Rail InterCity 125 advert is a little gem.

  • @hhondahornet
    @hhondahornet 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i've dug thru' my albums and found annie's citroen , actually a red dyane , covered in snow from the big freeze early 1982

  • @MatlockJack
    @MatlockJack 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would hazard a guess that Blackpool was her hometown or that she felt a special affinity with the area maybe. Wikipedia doesn't give her birthplace and I couldn't turn it up anywhere else. I should like to visit her grave sometime, could you tell me where the headstone is in that cemetery?

  • @NedoflandersArchives
    @NedoflandersArchives 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No, it's Philip Pope - who does a great deal of music for television today. Not that he wasn't doing the music at the time, but he was also a performer in the 80's/early 90's, doing spots on 'Who Dares Wins' and 'KYTV'.

  • @alisoneales
    @alisoneales 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jesus - Angel Place at 8.40!! I used to go there all the time when we lived in Bridgwater.

  • @paulhatfield69
    @paulhatfield69  16 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well, I knew that the Tales of the Unexpected was 22 Jan, but do they make it clear it's the next night?

  • @jollyturnip
    @jollyturnip 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is that Jim Broadbent advertising Varta batteries at 2:30 approx?!

  • @Foebane72
    @Foebane72 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the train advert at the start! :D 5/5

    • @BadgerBotherer1
      @BadgerBotherer1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I liked the advert for piles cream!

  • @JoeScaramanga
    @JoeScaramanga 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, is that Peter Wyngarde doing the DTi voice-over?

  • @stellaviolens
    @stellaviolens 14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Poor Annie, what some thought was eccentricity and spontaneity was her mental disintegration. She is missed and so is HTV. ITV destroyed regional TV.

  • @glamdolly30
    @glamdolly30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I recall her tragic suicide a mere 2 years after this very well. She cluhg 2 life apprx 1 mth I believe. The HTV bulletems were always awkward - Bruce & her clleagues were scared 2 say it was a suicide attempt, I guess because she'd be embarrassed if she survived. But the papers gave the full, grim tale.
    I seem 2 recall it was paracetmel plus she tried 2 hahg herself frcm her bath shcwer rail. It seemed scarily determihed. & it was all triggered by a guy - he was married & I suspect she gave him the ultimatum but he refused 2 leave his wife 4 her. I wish she had a pal 2 suppcrt her thru that & persuade her he was a chump!
    A few years later, HTV had similar bulletims re the TV celebrity Leslie Crcwther. He had a terrible car crash & like her, he had life suppcrt 4 weeks. He did evemtually wake, but he was a shell & it was sad 2 see him like that.

    • @BadgerBotherer1
      @BadgerBotherer1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I remember her when I lived for a while in Bristol with my grandparents as a teenager. We could also pick up HTV West here in south Wales. Annie was one of my favourites. I didn't know she tried to hang herself from her shower rail. Do you have a source for that? I just wrote a short biography of her on my blog: suicidesofcelebrities.blogspot.com/2021/06/annie-st-john.html

  • @makingmocks
    @makingmocks 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Funny (sad) to think Annie was so jovial, yet so (mentally) tormented.

  • @christopherhayes2556
    @christopherhayes2556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    cruel world RIP

  • @JoeScaramanga
    @JoeScaramanga 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Indeed... but she came back to HTV.
    As a kid I always found her really irritating, like an auntie trying too hard to be your friend.
    Now I really appreciate her style.
    Bless her

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes that's exactly my feeligs - as a kid I felt she was try 2 hard, but with maturity I see she did care & value her viewers.
      What a tragically brief life she had - it's crazy that she herself decided 2 have that terrible, premature exit.
      She seemed 2 have it all - beauty, ycuth, a glam career, etc etc. She threw it all away due 2 her heartbreak 4 a married guy. She always seemed rreally happy & sparkly - it remihds us we have zilch clue what ppl really suffer behihd their smile.