John Wyver writes: Television's treat on the evening of Tuesday 18 April 1939 was the third Coliseum Night presenting the first half of the variety bill at Sir Oswald Stoll's flagship theatre in London's St Martin's Lane. Featured artists more
John Wyver writes: Just after 3pm on Saturday 17 April 1937 BBC Television began an 'outside broadcast' from the railway terminus adjacent to Alexandra Palace. Billed as Demonstration of Railway Locomotives, and organised with London North Eastern Railway, the transmission more
John Wyver writes: Characterised by The Times as ‘an animated scene’, the interior of the Marble Arch Pavilion cinema was packed on the evening of 23 February 1939 with ‘an audience of men and women who were evidently boxing enthusiasts.’ Every more
John Wyver writes: The afternoon of Saturday 19 February 1938 saw high drama enacted in and around Alexandra Palace. Fire Up Aloft was a 25-minute fire-fighting demonstration given by members of the Enfield Fire Brigade, with the full-hearted participation of more
John Wyver writes: on Thursday 13 January 1938 the schedule carried an outside broadcast from the Chiswick headquarters of the London Transport Passenger Board. The focus was the training of a London bus driver, created as what in the language more
John Wyver writes: the afternoon of Tuesday 4 January 1938 saw the first outside broadcast visit to Bertram Mills's Circus at Olympia (above), from where broadcasts would be shown across the next five days. This first transmission featured the opening more