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The Desmond Campbell Collection contains over 1,200 photos of BBC TV from 1937 to 1951.
Campbell stored the negs in his garden shed for many years, where they deteriorated.
APTS has restored these images over several years - this channel is the result.
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#OTD 14 June 1946 - John Logie Baird died aged 57.
Best known for pioneering television and demonstrating the world’s first working TV system, he spent his final years developing advanced colour and large-screen television technologies that were decades ahead of their time.
#JohnLogieBaird #BairdTelevision #TelevisionHistory #TVHistory
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#OTD in 1873, Alexandra Palace consumed by fire, less than three weeks after the official opening.
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Jun 9
#OTD - 9 June 1938
Trooping the Colour first was televised for the first time with cameras overlooking Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall.
Commentators for the event were John Snagge & Major JBS Bourne May.
Presentation by Philip Dortè
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Jun 4
BBC Television Service tuning signal, May 1948
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Jun 4
4 Feb 1949 Manchester's Lord Mayor, Alderman Mary Kingsmill Jones, became the city's first citizen to be televised as the BBC's Olympic Games equipment exhibition at the Gas Showrooms.
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Jun 5
Reginald Tate, the first Professor Quatermass and Anthony Bushell, Colonel Breen in Quatermass and The Pit, in an except from A School For Scandal the BBC demonstration film Television is Here Again (1946)
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Jun 7
From Daily Express Sylvie Saint Clair as she appeared on the TV screen 10 June 1946 on the recently re-opened BBC Television service
Announcer Jasmin Bligh loses her chin
Hattie Jacques makes her TV debut with Leonard Sachs in Late Joys
Transatlantic Quiz with Lionel Hale
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Jun 7
Sylvie Saint Clair singing on her own show on the BBC, 1946
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Jun 7
The Sphere 20 July 1946 Sir Seymour Hicks being televised at the BBC's Alexandra Palace studios
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Jun 7
A least one camera broke down an a cameraman fainted during the BBC's live televising of the revue Better Late from the Garrick Theatre 15 July 1946
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Jun 8
Singer Michele de Lys rehearing at the BBC's Alexandra Palace Studios
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Jun 8
Announcer Winifred Shotter doing a test at the BBC's Alexandra Palace
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Jun 8
#OTD 8 June 1946
Victory parade televised.
The first outside broadcast of the newly re-opened BBC Television Service. The OB unit was based in The Mall, opposite the saluting base. Frederick Grisewood and Richard Dimbleby were the commentators.
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#OTD 7 June 1946.
Just after 3pm, after tuning signals & an image of the #AlexandraPalace mast with #EricCoates #TelevisionMarch, #JasmineBligh emerged from a car, and spoke - “Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh?”
#BBCTelevision had returned after its war-time close-down.
#BBCTV80Anniversary #TelevisionHistory #YourAllyPally #BBCTVHistory #BBCTV
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Jun 6
Please check out this great entry, written by my friend Paul Hayes, on the History of the BBC website - it's a great read.
Sunday will be the 80th anniversary of TV's return, so I've done a piece for the History of the BBC site.
If you're a BBC Local Radio listener you may also hear some bits of the comeback today, as I've done a piece for CNS which some stations are running
bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/te…
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#OTD 6th June 1954.
First Eurovision European exchange of television programmes with eight countries taking part. This marked the official launch of the Eurovision television network by the European Broadcasting Union (#EBU). This historic, month-long summer experiment connected eight participating countries.
Image courtesy of Andrew Wiseman via x.com
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Upcoming Film Convention
The Film is Fabulous! team are delighted to participate in the 50th British Film Collectors’ Convention, which will be held at The Barn Theatre, 25 Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, on Saturday 30th May 2026.
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#OTD - 21 May 1950
BBC Newsreel reported on the BBC's first day at Lime Grove, the former Gainsborough film studios, which was the new home of Children's Hour
#LimeGroveStudios #LimeGrove #BBCTelevision #ChildrensHour #VioletAttlee #BBCNewsreel
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