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Wood Norton was the home of the BBC's Monitoring Service [note 1] from August 1939 until early 1943, when Monitoring moved to Caversham Park and Crowsley Park, near Reading. The move was made to release space at Wood Norton so it could be used as the BBC's main broadcasting centre, should London have to be evacuated because of the threat from ...
BBC Radio recording studio at the Cultybraggan nuclear bunker, Perthshire, shortly before it was dismantled in 2014. The Wartime Broadcasting Service is a service of the BBC that is intended to broadcast in the United Kingdom either after a nuclear attack or if conventional bombing destroyed regular BBC facilities in a conventional war.
Scotland's Secret Bunker; RAF Shipton; W. Wood Norton Hall; Y. York Cold War Bunker This page was last edited on 8 July 2024, at 05:22 (UTC). ...
Studios used for BBC TV until the station moved to Lime Grove in 1956. Was also the base for BBC TV News, until it moved to Television Centre in 1969, and for Open University broadcasts. Closed in 1981. [30] BBC Henry Wood House [31] London: Contained some activities of the BBC Audio and Music and BBC Research departments. Bush House: London
Crowsley Park and Caversham Park were acquired by the BBC during the Second World War. In April 1943, the BBC moved the headquarters of its Monitoring Service [note 1] from Wood Norton Hall, near Evesham in Worcestershire, to Caversham Park, with Crowsley Park acting as the service's receiving station, picking up radio broadcasts from Nazi Germany and many other countries.
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As with Catterick, this was a temporary expedient, and the intention was to move into an expanded ex-ROTOR bunker at Shipton, a few miles north of the city. Region 3 (North Midlands) Plans for a new site at Grantham were abandoned, as new assumptions about Soviet targeting strategy assumed that Nottingham would avoid heavy fallout, and so to ...
Royal Air Force Burtonwood (or RAF Burtonwood) is a former Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces base that was located in Burtonwood, 2 miles (3.2 km) Northwest of Warrington in Cheshire, England.