Alexandra Palace Television Society

List of the written accounts held in the Archive as of 1st February 2000

This list contains links to some of the written accounts - follow the link and read them on-line

A.P.T.S. Reunion 1997	Alexandra Palace during World War II
Account of taking part in "Exhibition" in July 1939	Llewellyn Rees
BBC TV Studio Operations & Engineering - The Early Days	Larry Coalston
Domino versus Y-Great	Alexandra Palace, February 1941
Early Days at TV	Eric Crozier	From 'After Long Pursuit' by Nancy & Eric Crozier 1992
Experiments with Colour	Lawrence Cragg
Experiments with Electronic Backgrounds	Lawrence Cragg
From "Paff's" Scrapbook	Paff's war-time work at Alexandra Palace
From the Victory Parade to the Coronation 1946 - 1952	Sybil Cave (nee Drewitt)
Further Memories From Ros Pool	Ros Pool
Light Entertainment Production at Alexandra Palace	Joy May
Line-up of Emitron Camera: Also its operation	Ted Ludbrook	To be read in conjunction with photograph of 'A' RACKS
Looking Back	Gladys Davies	Re-typed from 'Digit' - April 1985
Memories of a Hypnotist	Isobel Strachan	Re-typed from 'Digit' - April 1985
Memories of early Television	Philip Bate	Recalling memories of Mr Middleton
Memories of Life in Television	Joy May	Transcription from audio tape
Memories of Life in Television	Ros Pool	Transcription from audio tape
Memories of Television	Henry Kuttner - Junior Engineer 1953 - 1955	Recalling memories of life as Transmitter Engineer
Memories of working at Ally Pally	Edward (Ted) Shankster
Mixing Memories	Bob Mears	Re-typed from 'Digit' - 1987
Molly's Memories	Molly Brownless, nee Heritage, then Frood	Re-typed from 'Digit' - April 1985
Personal Reminiscences of Television - B Paulson	Collected at History of Television Exhibition	28 June - 13 July 1993
Personal Reminiscences of Television - K E Madan Mohan	Collected at History of Television Exhibition	28 June - 13 July 1993
Personal Reminiscences of Television - K Lister	Collected at History of Television Exhibition	28 June - 13 July 1993
Personal Reminiscences of Television - N A Hewitt	Collected at History of Television Exhibition	28 June - 13 July 1993
Personal Reminiscences of Television - N R Croft	Collected at History of Television Exhibition	28 June - 13 July 1993
Post-War Television at Ally Pally	A Drama Secretary's eye-view by Valerie Silk	5-page account of life at Alexandra Palace
Small tribute to BBC Research Engineers from Vision Mixer	Rachel Blayney	Re-typed from 'Digit' - October 1984
Some thoughts on Rehearsal Rooms	Sheelagh Rees	Transcription from audio tape
Telecine Machines & Operations: (Never Break A Habit)	Lawrence Cragg
Telelvision Outside Broadcasts from 1937 - 1962	J N (Bill) Bailey
Television Wardrobe at Alexandra Palace	Isabel Winthrop	To be read in conjunction with sketch of floor plan
Test Card by Television	Ralph Parrott	To be read in conjunction with 'Test Score by TV'
Through the Lens View of Ally Pally	ZERB - Journal of the Guild of Television Cameramen	Spring 1996
Transmitter Operations - (Never Judge A Book By Its Cover)	Lawrence Cragg
Way It Was, The	Margaret Carter	5-page account of life at Alexandra Palace in the early years
We Never Knew Boredom at Alexandra Palace	W C "Paff" Pafford	The Alexandra Palace played during WWII

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