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11th Apr 2018, 5:51 pm | #1 |
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Alexandra Palace. What you didn't know!
This is a fascinating document drawn up by a firm of Architects on the state
of Alexandra Palace in 2012. In addition to history and fine detail of the building are many details re the BBC TV part. Many, many interesting facts such as this. Quote........ On the opposite side of the corridor on the studio floor are the artists’ dressing rooms. Five rooms are for men and five for women, each set of rooms having its own bath. There is also a chorus room. Forty artists can be accommodated twenty-one women and nineteen men. In each room are buzzer calling signals operated from the corner of each main studio. There are also an artists’ waiting room and a special make-up room on the same floor. End quote. So men and women didn't share the same bathroom Blimey, I never had a bathroom where I worked !! 21 women and 19 men. How odd. The document is very long but I have never seen such detail on AP before. Just look at those detailed drawings at the end. http://www.alexandrapalace.com/conte...-July-2012.pdf
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11th Apr 2018, 6:11 pm | #2 |
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Re: Alexandra Palace. What you didn't know!
When I was a child I spent a week playing a little devil in an 'am dram' operetta. My costume consisted of black swimming trunks with a tail attached and a pair of horns. The rest of me was painted orange using body make-up. I would not have wanted to have put my outdoor clothes on for the journey home without washing the make-up off first ! As it was the small theatre where we were playing didn't have baths/showers either, so we were handed bowls of warm soapy water and sponges and told to get on with it.
Cheers, GJ
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Re: Alexandra Palace. What you didn't know!
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11th Apr 2018, 11:52 pm | #5 |
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Re: Alexandra Palace. What you didn't know!
Apparently the aerial damage took place on the 14th of Decemeber 1936 and both sound and vision aerials were damaged. The horizontal arms which carry the aerial arrays were hinged in the centre and these were bent upwards as a result of the stays breaking. Efforts were immediately made to remedy the problems and the "ordinary BBC engineers" climbed the mast in spite of the high winds. They succeeded in repairing the sound aerial so an announcement could be put out at 9-00 pm. High powered studio lights were used to illuminate the mast to aid the repairs.
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12th Apr 2018, 7:58 am | #6 |
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Re: Alexandra Palace. What you didn't know!
Thanks for info. Peter.
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