Pebble Mill

BBC WM have posted this picture on Facebook today and hinted at the site's future use:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=415861&id=120319491340099

Indeed, what a shame. Anyone for a piece of history:
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg338/scaled.php?tn=0&server=338&filename=qzkd.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Didn't Pebble Mill have to go as it had concrete cancer?

No, that was a wider part of the conspiracy....

There was nothing fundmentally wrong with Pebble Mill & it was far cheaper to restore the building than lease insufficient space at the Shoebox. Pebble Mill went because of internal politics and a mad ethos at the time that the BBC had to be seen to be at the centre of the community. Hence the headlong rush to build studios in impractical office spaces just to get a good city centre frontage - with a shop & open centre.