Last ever Pebble Mill at One (1986) part 2

A man with a dodgy t-shirt. Military band and balloons in the grounds, as the show comes to a close.

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• pebble
• mill
• at
• one
• bbc
• birmingham
• last
• 1986

[doubledeckers]

Richard claimed never to have seen Pebble Mill. I met them in the early 1990's and asked him!

[thorpebankroad]

The gradual decline of entertaining television as one by one, these institutions have been axed, only to be replaced by programming like "day break"......

[TrillionGrams]

Get your tits out!

[moondog102]

Agreed without a doubt, I don't know why they axed it.

I used to watch it everyday when I came home from school for my lunch.

[UKSazzy67]

Richard and Judy SO copied Pebble Mill for This Morning, even down to doing the whole show from the foyer, with the general public walking past outside. ITVs This Morning owes everthing to Pebble Mill. The BBC were the first pioneers of the daytime magazine/chat show!

[AidanLunn]

well its south of where I live as well, but I say they moved North because Nottingham is North of Elstree.

[Ampex196]

Thanks for making that clear.

The purchase of Elstree gave us EastEnder's (dead-ender's or double-ender's if you prefer).

To us here: Nottingham is a very long way SOUTH - lol!

[AidanLunn]

no, I mean ATV Birmingham.

ATV Elstree became Central TV Borehamwood in 1982 and was then sold to the Beeb in August 1984 when Central moved their main production facilities up north to Niottingham.

[Ampex196]

Thanks for that.

Strangely enough I've just been discussing the problems of asbestos in old buildings. By 'ATV centre' I take it you mean Elstree? A lot of work has been carried out at TVC - which should be clear by now.

Asbestos is only harmful if it is disturbed; certainly not in voids' etc. where it never sees the light of day.