Specific Transmitter Sites
Mike Brown's excellent web site www.mb21.co.uk includes a great deal of information on UK Terrestrial Radio & TV Transmitters and it includes a Mast Gallery.
Some BBC transmitter sites are of particular interest and further links are given below.
2LO (The BBC's first transmitter)
Vintage BBC Transmitters - 2LO and AP
The Emergence of Broadcasting in Britain
Alexandra Palace (The BBC's first television transmitter)
The story of the birth of television at Alexandra Palace
AP history, with some good recent pictures
Alexandra Palace Television Society
A Society to preserve, for present and future generations, the oral and written
history of the pioneers who inaugurated the world's first, regular, public
high-definition television service from Alexandra Palace, North London, in
1936.
Alexandra Palace - Direct
Television
Personal experiences of the early days of BBC Television from Alexandra Palace
between 1952 and 1963. In addition there are some experiences of Lime
Grove and Riverside Studios in the mid-1950s.
N.B. Unfortunately this web site seems to have closed down in 2006 but it can be
seen buy entering
www.bbctv-ap.co.uk/bbctvp1.htm into
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Vintage BBC Transmitters - 2LO and AP
Ascension
Memories of Ascension - Phil Brooks and more Ascension pictures - David Dunmall
Athlone
Athlone
transmitting station (not BBC)
Pictures of early Marconi and Brown-Boveri transmitters that are
still in their original RTE (Radio Telefis
Eireann) building. All of the BBC transmitters of this vintage were scrapped and
so this web site provides an interesting view of an equivalent installation.
Brookmans Park
Brookmans Park - Pictures and Memories - Peter Gutteridge
Brookmans Park.
The London Twin-Wave Broadcasting Station,
A Descriptive
BBC Souvenir 1930.
A History of Brookmans Park Transmitting Station
By Lilian Caras 1982 (revised January
2002)
Daventry
Starting with the BBC in 1941 - Reminiscences about Daventry - Don Bowman
Daventry-Index
Click on Photo Tour to see an interesting history of Daventry
transmitting station, with pictures.
New: Divis
Two videos: Television
arrives in Northern Ireland (1954) and antenna replacement (1992).
Droitwich
Droitwich Calling - The Story of Droitwich Transmitting Station
Emley Moor (ITA site)
Collapse of ITA Emley Moor mast on 19 March 1969 - James F Middlemiss
Lisnagarvey
Lisnagarvey and the Blaw-Knox mast - Aubrey McKibben
Rampisham
Resplendent Rampisham
Report of a visit to this HF transmitting station.
Short Wave Magazine.
January 2004.
Wonderful Woofferton - 60 Years Old
Report of a visit to this HF transmitting station.
Short Wave Magazine.
September 2003.
Skelton
Sutton Coldfield
Tales from
Cold Field by Ray Cooper
An excellent feature on the MB21 web site about this important transmitting
station.
Start Point
Start Point's special role following D Day - Stuart Frost
New: Wenvoe
Video of the open day in 1965.
Woofferton
Fifty years of transmitting at BBC Woofferton - Jeff Cant. (75 page, 7MB PDF file)
Life at Woofferton 1961 - 1995 - Eileen Briggs
Woofferton: Ancient and Modern - Richard Buckby
Diamond Jubilee - For Woofferton's
Wireless Wonder
Report of a visit to this HF transmitting station.
Practical Wireless.
September 2003.
Writtle (forerunner of BBC transmitters)
2MT Writtle: the birth of British broadcasting.
A good book describing events leading up to the start of the BBC, with particular emphasis on transmitters and characters such as P.P.Eckersley. author: WANDER T R publisher: Capella year: 1988 isbn: 0-946443-10-6
Two Emma Toch - Writtle
A play made for hospital radio which depicts some of the events leading up to
the formation of the BBC. The main character is Peter Eckersley who later
became the BBC's first Chief Engineer. This very entertaining play
recreates the atmosphere in the famous hut where broadcasting pioneers built up
an enthusiastic audience during 1922. Written by Tim Wander and Dennis Rookard,
the play is based on the book "2MT Writtle: The Birth of
British broadcasting" (see details above).