Hi all,
The Broadcast Engineering Museum will open its doors for Heritage Open Days on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September 2024.
The museum is still under development and does not yet open regularly, so this is a rare chance to see our vast collection of historic broadcast equipment.
We expect to display two of our fully restored outside broadcast vehicles, a satellite uplink van, more than a dozen 2" and 1" videotape machines, five telecines, dozens of vintage studio cameras, lenses and pedestals, audio desks, rare broadcast
microphones dating back to the 1920s and much more.
Since our open days last year:
* Studio 1's floor has been replaced and we've parked some of our OB trucks in there for the time being;
* The Central Apparatus Room has been more fully kitted out;
* We have the beginnings of a transmitter hall with a 40 kW TV transmitter (ex Crystal Palace) and parts of a 250 kW radio transmitter (ex Woofferton);
* Three pre-war types of BBC audio recorder are on display: type C disc recorder, Marconi-Stille steel tape recorder and Philips-Miller film recorder;
* We now have an Eidophor video projector originally used to show live events at the Odeon Leicester Square;
* We have started to create a TV studio production gallery;
* We have added display area relating to theatrical and television lighting.
The museum is located in a large building that was originally the sergeants' mess at the RAF Hemswell bomber base in Lincolnshire in the war.
The base, now an entirely civilian village known as Hemswell Cliff, is also home to Europe's largest antiques centre.
Free admission
Free parking
For more information and directions, please see
https://becg.org.uk/event/heritage-open-days-2024/
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Richard Lamont
Trustee
Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group
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