http://greenbank-records.com/1930s-recordings daily 0.75 2023-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1488577926448-25SLUOKFMP4MBTYBD0LW/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The Cameo (est. 1914) still sits on the route into town from Greenbank. In 1996 it hosted the world premier of "Trainspotting". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1462035692838-CXY2ONTCYQNK6AIE2VL1/untitled.png 30s Echoes Mr Kiplings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1462276027525-LZ3CWGJYFEIE6LQWMEEZ/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1462291918317-1SW6OAEMKPLCRDXPC8KK/image-asset.png 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1462276190536-S3L6D2SR8P14MXPPOVB8/image-asset.png 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1466141045380-IGMQUJOTAYO3UWC1ZX77/IMG_2018.JPG 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1466141049102-PHIMB58VG6OM8LWGIRAH/IMG_2020.JPG 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1466141049486-769M3X7Y27OEANC0C8S5/IMG_2021.JPG 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1465993057209-XW504HCY43CEXLOBF431/image-asset.png 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1466709094496-WUU7OF2B0OCKYAP5UVW0/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1465733597865-BWLUA6Q8S95GVEK3XYAC/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1466709060561-RMUW2YBK76W1ZHENAIZZ/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1465992461045-QHURD8MYGM1Z0QZTPS8Y/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1465882694695-WN1LVOISJDHLXXNTP1HZ/image-asset.png 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1465752403008-NVCXHSON3XM0LMK3EV3W/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1466709118799-C2YV0V0S67Y52WDXFAF9/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1466708929293-GMEC4DFKYSA96ANMHWB8/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1466709035568-Q2GRDK9Z3V0P7TK9KT79/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1468251839977-517IEV1QE56CTU3EUC66/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes WD40 ... admittedly an American invention https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1467829873452-ZS097NMC8KG6RKY6ODIC/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1467826013353-XPDDJLONY5OYY2Z6D3FZ/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1468248091166-W9KC4MUZURB5D26KEEYX/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes His Master's Voice "78" (sold to the public with profits given to charity) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1468187457834-YRS5HGRI5IKT11SKP9ZR/image-asset.png 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1468100947212-WLQ8IW1QA5M2VKZG2PJF/image-asset.png 30s Echoes Greenbank, Edinburgh (built in the 1930s and the first modern houses designed for domestic electrical supplies, appliances and light) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1468101147143-7OMSBGCB23YEMB2WGD37/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Broadcasting House, London (opened 1932) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1467983300942-P6B826JMIKS80WO3YTNA/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Sandringham, Norfolk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1467998738897-93VH2MCCAGB7P7IUX2QX/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1467825965729-UXDNND1QZSQL9OS7EKEH/image-asset.png 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1467987827010-3SB6XDKXKT9YFY5FZ2TF/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469650682701-4KXM9TRGGE91N74ZS6QV/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469188977354-RJ53D2GXMWJYF0N42WNL/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes There is evidence that many people sympathised with Edward VIIIs position during the crisis and that George Vs succession might be weak. His public speaking difficulties would not have eased the government's concern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469212243406-WBDRQZX4FPBPJCBE5DED/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469212135549-UUOED7S40AF4R89K7R4H/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469272389734-4HEUQEBLUNIN7EL07N0O/bringing.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469272402701-0EFWPMV8AC3SR6LMY138/12400.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469272428422-TAG0TO9R42AXN957ATRP/tony-bush-blair-george_si.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469167676816-ECUUUVH8V7SI2FVPKQ1U/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes It seems likely that reports of a "panic" were exaggerated by the newspapers to prompt a regulatory clampdown on their rival radio counterparts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469129772557-XZF5Z1Z5O6C7PQTYX06O/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes "March of Time" A CBS "newsreel" of the 1930s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469598708076-0ABI38LTJ2LLLPESAKRL/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes "Mr Pipes" attacks the Ghostwatch studio ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1470940731581-JA95PBTY7VW4PYSJ45J7/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Sponsored by Macleans the toothpaste https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1471026683292-4WK9Z8K8CD2FM0N68B2S/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Splendid chap Reginald Foort ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1471026015975-3116WUH4T0358WEGEOZ7/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1470940792125-CDW0YPDOFGDF1SJLZOHD/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Reginald reunited with his organ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1470941230342-7PUBDE0WKUQRVMXIJ3H5/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The Compton Organ at the Stockport Plaza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472103896732-TJLL8G1MD9CYPODEY0JY/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472104125420-Z98HZETP3UQ0D0DT501W/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472104034532-J5VGCF0VKJWT6KN9UCPQ/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472104535318-746VWGBWGZ7IVPLPP3JM/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472304344685-0YOWEKP9D7DLJYQRNHC1/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472103496637-VTUOF4KCOLVUKULOF3YU/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472103534464-8DWGF721WPAUT185MJV8/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1473401134115-XQKA2DDPXH5OS3M6O33L/image-asset.png 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1473401042186-89MCRX7NQP7MCNF4RD3I/image-asset.png 30s Echoes Bond certificates were issued with coupons which would be cut out and exchanged for cash at the Post Office https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1474149006768-DG4IBU4MYVWM2Q2ALUFO/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1473497740012-KHC0TDEHWZV2Z6P4TOF7/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Unemployed workers from the industrial regions march on London in protest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1475924221740-YH8NMPMHIZMGEBD3OCY6/Echoes+of+1932.jpg 30s Echoes Echoes of '32 ... Extraordinary Entanglements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1476031810143-YACZVN85QM2J7CGJJ16A/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes "Mobile Connectivity" has democratised broadcasting and can empower us enormously but can also isolate us from nature and leave us vulnerable to blind populism, "groupthink" or the vanity of our own egos when we could be educating ourselves from our own direct explorations and observations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1475930769391-JLW66TSTHDCC3BKN11BO/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Prospero and Ariel located above the entrance of BBC Broadcasting House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1475937483584-W69PWLJDPCH1SQAKOWVA/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The labels are etched with the words "New BBC Band", "Home" and "15/3/32" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1475929289453-EUEKPRTZLFUIQUM3ZQFL/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The room that never slept ... the control room at BBC Broadcasting House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1479635736098-KW505G0MN6IVYJRVJXUZ/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478211061431-I9FKEMUHQAFZCDRHPBXN/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478205921251-7FCGTYVVS58L41DU293M/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes A rare image of Elizabeth Scott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478205179765-WLO6R58LD8NTIZ791UZ8/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Edward, the Prince of Wales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478205801245-JSM448PXIPNSJHJUB3LS/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The opening ceremonies started as early as July 1929 when 600 freemasons marched through the town after anointing and laying the foundation stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478206033364-5UL289CKUXYYJ0V03XC0/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478284986723-GK8B3DCZ8JWDJRF5FG8R/IMG_2204.JPG 30s Echoes Empty echoes of celebrity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1480011193611-WHPZTWDSVYO377URSXYS/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1479933158636-OJZI55BGT781KVMSIK38/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The other side of this disc contains a speech made by the Prince of Wales at the opening of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre earlier that same day (see "Modern English") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1479933258766-5ACWVD3OM37698D92TK4/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes On the left is the Scottish Regional Programme schedule, which departed from the National Programme schedule (on the right) at 4:45pm after that day's FA Cup Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1479933000478-040KO5AMRUP5IR02B2X2/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The above functional block diagram has been compiled from recollections of BBC engineering personnel available on the website www.bbceng.info https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1479932293873-C52WTLG1HYYQV9B680KX/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The circles represent transmitter reach, noting the reach of 5XX (blue circle) reflects the new evidence of F.O.Brown's 1932 recordings below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1479932856175-63AA991XM7R77G3GKQAD/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes "When the station is in full operation - about 3 months hence - dual programmes will be transmitted" The Glasgow Herald, May 21st 1932 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1480013558378-LQKA08GWTO7V6QPJ0X1W/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Remnants of 5XX, these Marconi water cooled valves were lost in 1992 but have now been found and displayed in Daventry's Town Council Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1481988124213-IPT054D1QUD3ZTNRY47C/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1481986415104-UZBRPRBMMNG86W70MGY3/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The Blatterphone was an early reel-to-reel tape recorder with whom BBC operators shared an odd sado-masochistic relationship. Notoriously unreliable it would often shred its steel tape before whipping its attendant with the razor sharp remnants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1481985425658-V6LPT2EXWBXH5FUYUMSU/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1481986304593-RUZVWNZM0L2BSG52XXSH/image-asset.gif 30s Echoes Like light mirrored from a window pane, shortwaves (10 to 187m) will scatter off the atmosphere at a large enough angle of approach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1481986563315-51ZUNIUEKMP5VZ572P3B/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1484857233722-X08WSWF91ZBJOLKQFGZA/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes The illegitimate son of a ploughman from Lossiemouth, McDonald was Britain’s first Labour prime minister. In 1932 King George V asked him to form a National Government to deal with the Great Depression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1484858113700-J1E283LXUT0CXD38B9N0/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes An alternate Nazi-free world depicted in the 2004 film “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1484857720928-A6LK6GYC7S68V3PCHAVB/irmi-seidl-hooked-on-economic-growth-how-to-get-rid-of-colloqui-di-martina-franca-2014-4-638.jpg 30s Echoes The war is a “blip” on the growing curve of our Anglo-American and European prosperity, which has been rising since the turn of the century. There is no evidence it has influenced the long term trend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1484857999121-6IE6EAGVOYX85MINSU8A/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Alan Turing’s computing paper of 1936 (re-issued). The war did not give Turing his ideas. It gave him resources and a peer community he could have found elsewhere. In 1938 it was Princeton, USA and not Bletchley Park, England where he built his first electromechanical computer. In the absence of war he would likely have stayed there, advancing the field with John Von Neumann. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1484991312124-UPMJCYLL6MV1DVHQOT2I/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes King George V (front, centre) with his prime ministers at the 1926 Imperial Conference. Standing (left to right): Monroe (Newfoundland), Coates (New Zealand), Bruce (Australia), Hertzog (Union of South Africa), Cosgrave (Irish Free State). Seated: Baldwin (United Kingdom), King George V, William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1485103783854-1KALLPCR8PCF23OLIAU8/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1484857409952-YQ1L0EB52GR9JTV81R6T/image-asset.jpeg 30s Echoes Commando comic was popular reading among the boys in our small town, where Scouts, Boys Brigade and Army Cadets gave us our extra-curricular activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1488102803646-Z42RIOK9M0P8CY9SVYS6/1391W-2013114173240_original.jpg 30s Echoes EKCO disc (Aluminium) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1488103204688-ET8FB4S49P44Z7BQMVV6/Echoes+of+1932.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1488102959135-YRH2PYTVBFIRI6EYS6H5/1391W-2013114173240_original.jpg 30s Echoes EKCO Radiocorder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1467809384812-QYUGW92LKOX302Q0VQPO/IMG_2052.JPG 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1501428026461-PQWCKAYDZ6MRY6F3GK2G/1391W-2013114173240_original.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1474178422530-YELQZVHD16D9NRP8BE7A/th8FLHP5NK.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1476555879866-EWSK4HTOAGRF8RB1TMOD/IMG_2183.JPG 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478030356425-ZOKCUQC8Q89X3RNJGPGL/IMG_2208.JPG 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478976957937-PXNXVXD82N95IASXWZSV/thBQ5O3HJD.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478977221293-9R1CZSVVIQE1TPKMU7BX/coronationRT1536P.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478977439347-D3PZPFNAT711W8QH2SPI/3265118.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478977840831-IQUBOIU5IW8YQTUYYNGD/ac8cd1808dc30460a81cab1b0e6652fa_700x259.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1479667009257-30LAMSXAY3PVIV2NG15P/The+EarlyNet.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1481988445823-M3GF3RAXOAF157CL1K66/p027m2xn.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1485104776152-KW62RHXAIZTDF2JE8HUI/AirCarriers.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1488099814821-ZENSYRGKWJD23K4ACSYD/2286674252_bc9620b49b_z.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1500579633950-OB8QKLP08K7S21C14HK4/0_street_views_-_greenbank_road_lamp_post_in_garden.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1501428132101-H12Y9YPIVDB6Y4QYSN0H/BBC-1930s.jpg 30s Echoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1701550096851-VAN0JREPDY5WO1P3P6IQ/Sample+5+Interview+with+Mrs+Girby.JPG 30s Echoes http://greenbank-records.com/blog daily 0.75 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1468255892341-4N3554LWE6JOZYL7NCM7/IMG_2052.JPG Blog http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2018/6/9/i-mean-nothing-to-her monthly 0.5 2018-06-09 http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2017/12/3/royal-variety-show-1932 monthly 0.5 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1512297126221-VUGRRU01D8HRAJEM7DM7/300px-DMir_1915_12_21_015.jpg Blog - Royal Variety Show Newspaper cutting from 1915 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1512302177540-4ADL9ME5Y8CP042M6WRW/1460130847-britains-got-talent-elitesquad-royalz.jpg Blog - Royal Variety Show Broadcast by ITV and drawing up to 17m live viewers alone, the winner of Britain's Got Talent is automatically selected for the Royal Variety Show https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1512300395881-KITYCQPML90IN9HKRD21/IMG_2257.JPG Blog - Royal Variety Show https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1512296893960-EMD7E666GBZJRD8O5ZHJ/jack_buchanan.jpg Blog - Royal Variety Show Scots-born Buchanan always played the English Gentleman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1512296512922-LSYMLY1MTZEHJ4AMFM1B/HT0WR8.jpg Blog - Royal Variety Show A rare photograph of the show during the 1930s with King George V and Queen Mary, when it was called the Royal Command Performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1512300010539-7M0EXYYVLZFK52UJOOTL/IMG_2260.JPG Blog - Royal Variety Show The two lost ECKO discs produced "off-air" by my grandad F.O.Brown labelled "Command Performance" dated 30th May 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1512296246252-UWPWT5C8Z6MIYHA1KP3E/12803922705_17171096fa_b.jpg Blog - Royal Variety Show http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2017/3/15/calling-all-stars-1937 monthly 0.5 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1489607789946-RO6N2DJESJ9M0ZB68MEB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Calling All Stars Bronx bombshell Dall clashed with English girl-next-door Lynn. When bra-less Dall bounced on stage, duff notes popped out the band. After a show she would drink whisky and play poker with the chaps while Lynn got the bus home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1489607595432-2398NEU09O6DTIZP3O38/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Calling All Stars The age-worn EKCO disc of 25/12/1937 next to my grandfather's copy of "Eleven More Months and Ten Days More" bought from James Beaton's Gramophone House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1489608224334-SZSJLH7RO7IRVQ0I82VO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Calling All Stars Crooning was a new soft style of singing only made possible by the microphone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1489607335712-EYGQ4XCDOC4FW2CWMRYL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Calling All Stars Bandleader Bert Ambrose with American songstress Evelyn Dall in the Mayfair Hotel. In 1936 she married his manager while enjoying an adulterous affair with the man himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1489606830476-CHXU98O0RG82N6SRFO59/image-asset.png Blog - Calling All Stars An image from the 1984 Queen video “Radio Ga Ga”, a nostalgic ode to the radio era. 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Standing (left to right): Monroe (Newfoundland), Coates (New Zealand), Bruce (Australia), Hertzog (Union of South Africa), Cosgrave (Irish Free State). Seated: Baldwin (United Kingdom), King George V, William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1484854644143-74GQ90KQ5GGE5FENES5N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Dreams of Empire The illegitimate son of a ploughman from Lossiemouth, McDonald was Britain’s first Labour prime minister. In 1932 King George V asked him to form a National Government to deal with the Great Depression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1484855244514-M49TCH8G7XGBJ9KZS56W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Dreams of Empire Alan Turing’s computing paper of 1936 (re-issued). The war did not give Turing his ideas. It gave him resources and a peer community he could have found elsewhere. In 1938 it was Princeton, USA and not Bletchley Park, England where he built his first electromechanical computer. In the absence of war he would likely have stayed there, advancing the field with John Von Neumann. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1484854974374-W8IWSM2PEO7K3AKY879B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Dreams of Empire The war is a “blip” on the growing curve of our Anglo-American and European prosperity, which has been rising since the turn of the century. There is no evidence it has influenced the long term trend.   http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2016/12/24/echoes-of-32-an-empire-calls monthly 0.5 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1482567327493-X0O6DMA73Y5QIFOYZD7H/image-asset.gif Blog - An Empire Calls Like light mirrored from a window pane, shortwaves (10 to 187m) will scatter off the atmosphere at a large enough angle of approach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1482567031688-WTI08ERFSCNZXGWKK2AN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Empire Calls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1482566930136-R4QWUKGG1P1YU34Z2FMQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Empire Calls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1482567456821-PGMM0IQV603VQLYV9BQD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Empire Calls The Blatterphone was an early reel-to-reel tape recorder with whom BBC operators shared an odd sado-masochistic relationship. Notoriously unreliable it would often shred its steel tape before whipping its attendant with the razor sharp remnants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1482567691646-YXRNT6B5CGF4FXG68FG6/Ascension-Island-2016-FDC-BBC-Atlantic-Relay-Station.jpg Blog - An Empire Calls 2016 saw the 50th anniversary of the BBCs World Service relay station on Ascension in the mid-South Atlantic. Could any radio broadcast carry an echo more remote than that? http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2016/11/26/echoes-of-32-surfing-the-earlynet monthly 0.5 2018-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1480184567922-FCE3U36NQYL4VS2QA5GW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfing The Earlynet The other side of this disc contains a speech made by the Prince of Wales at the opening of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre earlier that same day (see "Modern English") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1480150146277-EONX2X8GSM49QKPKF65U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfing The Earlynet On the left is the Scottish Regional Programme schedule, which departed from the National Programme schedule (on the right) at 4:45pm after that day's FA Cup Final https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1480151328373-2I6UA3WL6VEWCYXHNSNR/The+Dane+Tree.jpg Blog - Surfing The Earlynet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1480150531852-BEPJ15NCXJRKQFZ741YB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfing The Earlynet Remnants of 5XX, these Marconi water cooled valves were lost in 1992 but have now been found and displayed in Daventry's Town Council Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1480149641669-4SUZS74GGM2RLXZT2WO8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfing The Earlynet The above functional block diagram has been compiled from recollections of BBC engineering personnel available on the website www.bbceng.info https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1480149432881-9YDQ75Y91G8DTHMAKJGS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfing The Earlynet "When the station is in full operation - about 3 months hence - dual programmes will be transmitted" The Glasgow Herald, May 21st 1932 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1480148787742-LEJ6B7U7SH7CUGS4EYM8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfing The Earlynet The circles represent transmitter reach, noting the reach of 5XX (blue circle) reflects the new evidence of F.O.Brown's 1932 recordings below http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2016/11/5/echoes-of-32-modern-english monthly 0.5 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478373695156-S5OUQI80YFEYUNQB6HPM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Modern English The opening ceremonies started as early as July 1929 when 600 freemasons marched through the town after anointing and laying the foundation stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1479635872050-T63AZC9ZT2XRRXD1BJ8O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Modern English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478374413288-JWZOCK6GVSWAINUPMCPB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Modern English Empty echoes of celebrity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478373949949-6SOY07FVCVAUSSRPKVR9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Modern English A rare image of Elisabeth Scott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478374307158-H332DR80D5G4T7UIA5AI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Modern English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478373554969-XB84F5TYP43J4ATIN7LO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Modern English Edward, Prince of Wales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1478374152779-L59O2ENAZV679N7GIKUG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Modern English http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2016/10/14/echoes-of-32-a-brave-new-home monthly 0.5 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1476466179851-3ZD6BCMKHKSSYX80Z6R5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Brave New Home Echoes of '32 ... Extraordinary Entanglements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1476466722300-6X7EQDTSI9LHLXDH0GVY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Brave New Home The labels are etched with the words "New BBC Band", "Home" and "15/3/32" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1476466303803-6YBV5YMQVTX8ZUO6057A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Brave New Home The room that never slept ... the control room at BBC Broadcasting House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1476466447902-UQVO36JIB2BDUI5ZMJRI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Brave New Home Prospero and Ariel located above the entrance to BBC Broadcasting House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1476466613992-A35OZ6EDR6PSB0O5OHQH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Brave New Home "Mobile Connectivity" has democratised broadcasting and can empower us enormously but can also isolate us from nature and leave us vulnerable to blind populism, "groupthink" or the vanity of our own egos when we could be educating ourselves from our own direct explorations and observations http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2016/9/9/the-government-makes-a-killing-1932 monthly 0.5 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1473498030693-7CFZBK3YUAVYMGQM5GSP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chancellor Makes a Killing Unemployed workers from the industrial regions march on London in protest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1473492406929-PV6S4U90MLMII8HC1QDW/image-asset.png Blog - The Chancellor Makes a Killing Bond certificates were issued with coupons which would be cut out and exchanged for cash at the Post Office https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1474150106706-4A7RE49XOKTM1QH5GPKM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Chancellor Makes a Killing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1473492714859-GBEFXZ8O4X35BIMYQPTM/image-asset.png Blog - The Chancellor Makes a Killing http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2016/8/25/god-save-the-king monthly 0.5 2018-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472303102806-O4KX0A09H7IG0NBGN03M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - God Save The King! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472302950903-K39XFYZ6EU03WNL5BCXQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - God Save The King! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472302758272-E2QPHG4KIX2KEBVO8CTA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - God Save The King! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472302282541-42B2JMOU3FXAMUMY7I43/image-asset.jpeg Blog - God Save The King! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472302559839-LB43XWH74YRSNWSF1AJO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - God Save The King! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472302683946-WLOBN6NL404O6NTT1QV4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - God Save The King! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1472302990766-345KXYP8TDI715HMPGQ7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - God Save The King! http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2016/8/11/keep-smiling-1938 monthly 0.5 2018-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1471027404461-83IW3XXEHN8ZGTGKGQAW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keep Smiling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1471028430243-TIR8CULV4ACQ11R63BO0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keep Smiling Sponsored by Macleans the toothpaste ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1471028564622-R2J1AC0R55IEESMZ3LC1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keep Smiling Reginald re-united with his organ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1471028633671-0NCN2OUE0TBPBU81X3RY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keep Smiling The Compton organ at the Stockport Plaza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1471027926766-DTP82864VWUJGA2BUOLH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keep Smiling Splendid chap Reginald Foort ... http://greenbank-records.com/blog/2016/7/28/ding-dong-this-is-london monthly 0.5 2018-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57247517f85082b93e068616/1469729033427-B7SRTFO9F1BBPWYO33ZS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ding! 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