A small collection of mainly printed ephemera and photographs left behind by a BBC employee, Miss E.S. MacGregor, spanning 1942-1981.

Author: 
[The British Broadcasting Corporation; BBC]
The British Broadcasting Corporation
Publication details: 
[1942-1981].
£225.00
SKU: 10429

17 items, as follows: three photographs, 10 x 9, 16 x 11, 22 x 16cm (i. 14 members of staff captioned News and Newsreel, 40s?; ii. circa 30 people who attended the BBC Staff Dance in 1942; iii. Photo. with stain, Studio view from above, cameras , gantry, sets, and schoolboys posturing in front of camera 2 (Jennings? or William?); c. Plan of BBC Television Studios.Lime Grove. Studio 'G' 1/4 Scale , dated 4.2.[19]58 (Pugwash, first shown in 1957), 82 x 60cm, plan for Captain Pugwash, Producer, Gordon Murray, including geography of the studio (a mass of information from Fire Exit to To Make Up Room, much electrical), pencil sketch inc. Table, Easel, Narrator, etc.; Typescript, Presentation of Engineering Operation Schedule Third Arabic Service Brown [producer?] Network, 31 July 1945, including Cues and Instructions, 32 x 20cm; Page 163 of the Final Shooting Script of 'Great Expectations' (Paddle Steamer sequence, death of Compeyson under wheel), with marginal information in red, A page from the script of 'Great Expectations' [David Lean] Daily Express 'Fifty Years of Films' Exhibition, Dorland Hall, 1946, and *This is the scene you will see in model form in the Exhibition; Message from the Governors to the Staff, printed letter, one page, c.1952, congratulatory and exhortatory for the new 10 year charter; Menu for dinner at Television Centre Opening Night, 29 June 1960, some staining but a tasteful item; BBC Staff Regulations (booklet, x 3), 1949,1957, 1961; ticket for the Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of John Charles Walsham Reith (1971); Invitation from the Chairman and Board of Governors to the celebration of the 30th year of Broadcasting and renewal of the Charter (1952); 4 Typed |Letters Signed by Charles Curran (2), Hugh Greene (1) and D.E. Creasey (Engineering - her Dept.)), marking landmarks in her long career with the BBC, 1966-1972 (last retired).