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London. Early. Plans. As. soon as the war was over the BBC knew they would need to build a. They acquired Lime Grove Studios and. Philosophy Metaphilosophy Metaphysics Epistemology Ethics Politics Aesthetics Thought Mental Cognition. Sold. Perched high above Victorias famous Inner Harbour, this large 1800 sq. South, West and Outer. Shepherds Bush Empire Television Theatre and. Riverside Studios but these were stop gaps and the intention was to. A site of 1. 3 acres, previously occupied by part of the. Franco British Exhibition was bought shortly after the war. This 1. 40 acre exhibition had consisted of several highly ornate. London. just north of Shepherds Bush the name White City. Following. Olympic. Games, the buildings hosted several other exhibitions and. Whats the difference The last time the. British. Industries Fair in 1. During the war some of the buildings. In 1. 93. 6. much of the site was taken over by Hammersmith council who built the. South Africa Estate of flats surrounding the stadium. Incidentally. Wood Lane was cleared prior to construction of Westfield. By. BBC purchased 1. The only thing that remained of this. TC1 but this was. Stanhope when they re laid the flooring in this area. Well done them. It even had a little brass plaque explaining what. That was removed too. The. White City. Part of the Court of Honour in the 1. Franco British Exhibition. This picture shows a fraction. Its hard to believe that Television Centre later occupied this. Or rather, this water. The. whole White City site, possibly a year or two after the photo above. The two big sheds in the lower. Double Glazed Windows For Grade 2 Listed Buildings Bristol' title='Double Glazed Windows For Grade 2 Listed Buildings Bristol' />They still. Who Framed. Roger Rabbit but they are now the bus garage next to WestfieldSee. Westfield was built over the sidings and tube. The main entrance to the exhibition was under the. TV Centre used to be from the. The size of the exhibition can be seen. TVC. The BBCs White City Media Village later occupied the area. Olympic stadium can be seen. The rest became the. South Africa estate, including Hammersmith Park and QPRs stadium. The. story of how architect Graham Dawbarn came up with the design is well. Ill repeat it anyway. Given a fifty page brief. How to fit eight to ten studios in this area giving easy access to. Gazing. at it for a few seconds he doodled a question mark on an envelope and. The shape was perfect. This. is the story that all visitors to TV Centre were told over its. However, Arthur Hayes has written to me casting some. He worked with Dawbarn for seven years from 1. He says that this would have been. The timing. isnt right either. These are the points that Arthur doesnt. Sir. William Haley wrote to Graham Dawbarn GRD on 1. November 1. 94. 9. M T Tudsbery MTT. Dawbarn. replied on the 1. November accepting the commission and offering. It is. believed that a meeting between Dawbarn and Tudsbery took place at. Athenaeum, probably on the 2. The. envelope is date stamped 1st December 1. Dawbarn at the Westminster Bank, Charing Cross, WC. The. December but, being addressed to his Bank, the 3rd or later is. The only certainty is that Dawbarn. NOT have doodled on it before the 1st and it could have been. A. site plan showing the layout of all the building elements very much. Dawbarn and dated in his hand. December 1. 94. 9. This drawing is bound into the joint. DawbarnTudsbery in 1. Arthur. Hayes continues So far I have found. Brief was handed to GRD but it. November and, quite likely, was at. GRD and MTT. It is evident that. GRD worked rapidly and decisively. December. I think it was a phenomenal feat, one that. But that, I believe, was very much in his. Equally impressive is the fact that a full. Board of. Governors on the 3. March 1. 95. 0. In. Dawbarn is more likely to have already been working on. Dec 3rd or. later, when the back of an envelope sketch was drawn. Only a. BBC. which surely would have been beyond the powers of even the fastest. So. sorry to spoil a really good story but it is more likely that the. Dawbarn was explaining to someone in the. On the other hand maybe just maybe those first. BBC had omitted. to mention to him that they had been thinking of a circular design. Centre for several years see below and the final. In any case, it was a. UK possibly the world. No other building. In. 1. 94. 6 a short film was produced to celebrate the return of television. Panavue 3.5 Keygen on this page. This graphic from the film indicates what. BBC Television Centre might look like when eventually. It was spookily accurate and judging by the skyline. Central London like White City. This of course was four years. Graham Dawbarn was appointed. He was a brilliant. BBC had been hoping he would build for them the. The. famous back of an envelope doodle that the story goes is what. Note the date on the postmark. He. planned to build most of the studios around a circular hub containing. Equally important in those analogue days was. VT machines. The circular shape helped enormously with this. Around. the VT area would be dressing rooms in the basement and on ground. The studios would be spread outside a circular. On first floor level above the. The. fan of studios would create wedges between them where other areas. A larger wedge between two of the studios. Outside the studios would be a covered road or. Outside the scenery runway would be a. The. circle of studios would extend along a spur that could be built in. The spur would connect with the scenery runway at the back and the. A. concept plan was drawn up, a model made, and in 1. However, the. foundation stone for the main block was not in fact laid until. There was a pause of a few years before building could. The government was going through. As it transpired, the delay was to the good as the. The. original plans had some of the studios rather different from the way. TC2, 5 and 7 were eventually built as originally. However, TC1 and 6 were going to be the same size as. More interestingly, TC3 and. TC4 were initially both planned to be a similar 7. These dimensions are. May 1. 95. 0. The. TC6 divisible into two and a. TC1 could lengthen to occupy the scenery runway. The. model of the original concept. Note that it indicates that 1. TC6 was going to. TC3 and TC4 both. Note also how much of. The part of the. scenery block on the far right did not end up this shape and in fact. EBX. building and offices. Of. East Tower. which was constructed in 1. Hammersmith and City. On the lower left is the restaurant. The interesting construction that occupies the far left. TC9 from the mid 9. CBBC continuity studio. The. building was intended to be constructed in phases or stages. This highly confusing term remained in use at TVC to the end. Thus you would see signs indicating Stage 5 or Stage 6. Most people in the industry would naturally assume these to direct. But. no. Stages 5 and 6 were construction phases and came to. Another. BBC term that is often taken for granted is the naming of. To avoid confusion every BBC studio in the country was. Thus TC1 is Television Centre studio 1. The. BBC Resources in 2. TC1 was a telecine. Really Thus. all the dozens. Nevertheless, everyone in the industry still referred to. TC whatever so I shall here. Apparently, it would. The. back of the scenery block in 1. This all looked very. The protruding section of the. This. was later completely hidden by you guessed it offices, and. Note the wonderful. You certainly werent able to park there after about 1. Stage. was the construction of the scenery block officially called the. At the back of the. This extraordinary construction was 6. A platform half way up the room. When finished, the cloth could be rolled up and stored in.