What old recordings have you found?

ooh i hope you're not going for long - you'll have a backlog of look north tapes to watch on your return

A couple of others to add to the list from around that era are...

Sesames Treet by Smart E's from 1992 which also made on to the This Morning segement on Telethon 92!
Raynboe (Rainbow) by Eurobop from 1993

Erm... VHS Long Play is FAR superior to any DVD mode from LP downwards!!!

Must be a popular one - I've got that too, as does my girlfriend. I think it's from 1992 or so?

There's a couple of old things that I know are lying around on tapes at home - the most interesting one I've found so far is the royal opening of the Glasgow Garden Festival in May 1988, attended by Charles and Diana - it's an hour long OB following them round their tour of the park, and pretty interesting in itself, as I think they managed it with just three or four cameras over a massive area; and only one of them roaming. It also includes the tail end of a news bulletin; and I've not had a chance to see what's at the end yet.


At uni, we've got some student TV back stuff going back to the 70s on lo-band U-Matic. Now there's a tape you could knock someone unconscious with.

Funny you should mention school tapes. Schools tend to keep tapes for decades on end. I remember watching a program at school in 2001 which was so old it actually had the old BBC1 Mirror Globe before it. I mean if a program is useful why throw it away?

I work at a college now in the media department. I bet there is all sorts of presentation goldmines in the tape storage here, must take a look one day.

We get a lot of drugs and alcohol programmes from the 1970s/1980s.

In my old school, the best place to look would have been the Science prep room. Science always used to show loads of videos in lessons, and I remember seeing all sorts of idents from the 1980s on some tapes.

Yes science tapes especially are timeless because the content never ages. Unless something is re-discovered or found out to be different of course. Whereas other lessons such as English, Religious Education, Social Studies etc have to have their tapes renewed all the time to keep up with current trends.

Although I remember also watching a tape in GCSE Religious Education about the importance of love, and it featured a Radio 1 DJ playing love LPs, and I think it was Tony Blackburn!!! Or someone that old anyway. There were neon lights everywhere!

In Year 5 i saw a tape that had Josie D'Arby in the BBC control room!
It was a literacy video.And it's literacy,not english. It was Literacy in my old school so it's literacy now!
Back to the actual topic...

Same with our school, in Year 8 science we watched the whole series of Your Living Body, which then was about 16 years old anyway, also remember that the year before we watched the entire series of Grampian's Living and Growing, which AFAIK is still being shown at our school. There's also some Science programme preceeded by a Daytime on 2 ident from the striped 2 era. (=2=) and someone told me that in Physics they watched something that was preceeded by a BBC1 Schools and Colleges logo.

Our History department had alot of stuff from the 'TWO' era, with rather odd programme slides such as one which had 'BBC' in plain lettering at the top of the screen. When we were doing Business Studies last year we watched something from the very early days of The Learning Zone as it had the pre-1997 ident, and about the last 5 minutes of The X Files and some Weather before it! And again someone left the tape running, so when whoever taped it let it go on for too long as we ended up watching CBBC for a few minutes in our lesson! But that department usually has videos from coporations etc or stuff that was designed for schools, some BBC stuff, in Chemistry we watched 'An ICI Film for Schools and Colleges' from the mid 1970's and in Physics we watched a bought tape which was released by Pickwick Video and TV-am had something to do with it. Anyway......

We ended up watching a couple of old 4 trailers aswell and a break bumper with weird men hitting the screen!
Getting back to the topic [we only half moved away though],I've got loads of old This Morning,but only one with titles.

True, I prefer VHS noise to MPG artefacts any day, but done properly a transfer to DVD is going to be better than an LP VHS re-recording of and LP VHS.