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BBC Oxford Road, Manchester is no more...
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British Bulldozing Corporation: Landmark BBC Manchester base on Oxford Road is demolished
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But farewell indeed to the Palace of Glittering Delights. The phrase "get to bed", which I still say as a sort of in-joke with my mum (who got all too used to it during my teenage Radcliffe obsession, long before I'd have touched Westwood), will have a slightly different meaning from now on ...
The Archers come from the Mailbox - does that count ?
I don't get why they went for that one, there are already five Tescos off the top of my head within about 15 minutes walk of it.
Completely passed my by that place getting knocked down though, wonder what'll happen with the site now.
Slightly OT but does anyone know why Kro 2 closed? It used to be packed out on a weekend. I know Manchester has plenty of bars but the last thing we need is more Tescos. Unfortunately exactly the same happened in Didsbury.
There's already one Tesco Express down that road!
Pebble Mill was the name of the BBC studios in Birmingham (which also met the same demise and were demolished).
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/archive/pdffiles/engineering/bbc_engineering_102.pdf
It was designed to be efficient and "low cost", which for the 35 years or so while the technology changed beyond imagination, was quite a remarkable feat.
How very interesting. Can more of these BBC Engineering bulletins be found?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/archive/
The later magazine was "Eng Inf" and they are on this website.
http://www.bbceng.info/Eng_Inf/eng_inf.htm
My primary school has been demolished...
My grammar school has been demolished...
Pebble Mill has been demolished, where I was once in the audience of 'Pebble Mill at One' (oh yes, before 'Pebble Mill')
Now the very building where I went as part of a mob from the University recruited from the Students' Union for the first episode of 'The Oxford Roadshow' featuring an unknown Manchester drama student called Ben Elton... He was ruddy awful.
I was in the ITV / BBC studios on Quay Street Manchester the other day, and as much as they serve a purpose they are getting on a bit really - hope they're not for the chop. I love the old Granada TV logo.
studio complex on Oxford Road which is now being reduced to rubble. The 1950's ugly eyesore office block that forms
part of the Quay Street site is most likely to be bulldozed first, once ITV have moved to Trafford Wharf. They already
took down the iconic red GRANADA TV sign off the top of it over a year ago, due to "health and safety" issues.
Not sure what'll happen to the actual TV studios though. I think it's likely they'll get razed to the ground too, though it'd
be good if ITV could sell them as a going concern to another TV and/or multimedia company that could re-use them.
The big question is what might become of the current exterior set of Corrie, that's been there since 1982. The set was
refused "listed building" status earlier this year. I do believe the nearby Museum of Science and Industry have shown
an interest in acquiring the Corrie set, and integrating it as a museum attraction, but nothing has yet announced
or confirmed, so even Coronation Street as we currently know it could be doomed to demolition!
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1591151
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18398827#