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To be honest, I'm not entirely sure who took the original photograph at the moment, but I do know that we've secured use of it for the forthcoming article on the site!
But it really is purely by chance that it was spotted. For a long time, we in the Production team had wondered whether it was actually still there, but we'd concluded that when the building 'changed hands' from ATV to Central, it would simply have been taken down and junked. Not so, as we now see, the whole thing was simply covered up with a fresh piece of aluminium, with the Central logos placed on top of that. It was there all the time - 28 years!
The way I understand it is that one of our forum members spotted it on another forum, or within somebody's recent collection of photographs on an image hosting site (you know, like flickr... or similar). Obviously in the production of a programme like this, we're keeping an eye on the ongoing status of the site. Following a brief discussion as to its validity, we concluded that it needed checking out quickly. At least if it were a hoax (and that was the growing assumption) we would know. So we got onto the developers, who as I said we've been working with closely for a long time, and arranged to go over to check it out. This all happened within the space of 3 days, and luckily you see the results.
But it really is purely by chance that it was spotted. For a long time, we in the Production team had wondered whether it was actually still there, but we'd concluded that when the building 'changed hands' from ATV to Central, it would simply have been taken down and junked. Not so, as we now see, the whole thing was simply covered up with a fresh piece of aluminium, with the Central logos placed on top of that. It was there all the time - 28 years!
The way I understand it is that one of our forum members spotted it on another forum, or within somebody's recent collection of photographs on an image hosting site (you know, like flickr... or similar). Obviously in the production of a programme like this, we're keeping an eye on the ongoing status of the site. Following a brief discussion as to its validity, we concluded that it needed checking out quickly. At least if it were a hoax (and that was the growing assumption) we would know. So we got onto the developers, who as I said we've been working with closely for a long time, and arranged to go over to check it out. This all happened within the space of 3 days, and luckily you see the results.
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