Broadcasting House, Salford Quays & TVC

On a happier note its nice to post a restoration picture of TVC showing full use of the basement area.

It looks like the demolition vandals were held off enough to allow time to rescue quite a lot of 'architectural salvage' for the BBC Archives. The plan is to return these to their rightful place very soon...

Good to see those signs survived. They'd been there thoughout TVC's entire life, it would have been awful to see them lost forever!

Some of the other studio signs seemed to have had their acrylic panels replaced while TVC was still operating, with "Studio 7" etc in a Times New Roman Italic style font.

I guess it's also a good thing they saved the signs before the staff started looting them. If anyone can remember the stories from the last couple of weeks at TVC where audience members couldn't find the toilets because the signs had been taken!

Delighted to see that. Those signs were iconic.

One resource manager ended up having to write some directions on the walls in marker pen in south hall because all the signs had gone.

Meanwhile at Elstree, The new EastEnders set on the front lot has been confirmed as being a permanent build. Planning permission has been finally given.

So I was in reception at NBH today and I noticed the old 'have a go at the news' set and desk had been removed, the area looks rather dull now. Does anyone know what happened to it, is it no longer on the tour or was it moved elsewhere in the building?

Was that similar to the Breakfast sofa and table in the reception area at Quay House at Salford ?

Myself and Mrs MM were given a tour of the building recently by a BBC staffer friend. We weren't permitted
to take a picture of ourselves doing a Bill'n'Louise on the real set, so we made do with the mock up in reception. It's good enough to fool anybody outside of this forum

On the one hand there's a dirty big hole and a pile of rubble at the front....



Meanwhile round the back the piles are going in for building work.

Nice show on Radio 4 Extra today called the BBC Tour. Three hours of archive material presented in the form of a tour of BBC buildings past and present.

Didn't notice any obvious historical howlers, which is rare for this kind of show.