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This isn't quite tech-ops, but I thought it might be of interest. My late father-in-law never threw anything
away, and the time has come for those of us left to clear the house, which is taking months and many van loads.
Deep in a shed were the hand-outs obtained when he bought a tv in 1955... |
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The front page of an HMV brochure featuring models ranging in price from 67 to 114 guineas. Guineas was a strange ancient measure of money
dating from the 17th century, or maybe earlier, but used in the 1950s to disguise the real price, as 1 guinea was worth £1.05. Thus the most
expensive of the sets actually cost £119.70. A calculation based on figures in Whittakers Almanack gives a current equivalent price of over £2000.
In the photo, singer Alma Cogan is leaning on this expensive machine. Here's some more from the collection - some technical details, a TV licence, a sell for special "fringe" machines, and Cossors finest. Click each for big... 
  There's a Times supplement produced especially for the 1955 Radio Show. This is a page, not quite at random. The whole supplement is amazingly tedious, but this page has not only an appropriate tech-ops picture, but also an article entitled "Lighter Fare" which turns out to be anything but.... 
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Some Heron pics... Paul Ewing sent this one. Geoff Thonger is on the front, and that may be Brendan Carr on the back. It's in either TC2 or 3 about 1966  And this one is from John Latus, on the set of Every Second Counts...Nigel Taylor on the front, and Chris Price on the back 
Here are more John Latus pics - first Don't Wait Up - 
Producer Harold Snoad with vision mixer Hilary West on the left, and a floor shot with John Corby on camera. And here is a montage of shots from a CBBC drama called Alphonso Bonzo in 1989. Gerry Tivers and crew feature. 
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