Stan Laundon's photo is of a Mark 3 Desk at BBC Radio Cleveland. Stan thinks it's from 1983 or 84, around the time when the station moved into a new home in the centre of Middlesbrough and changed it's name from BBC Radio Teesside (now, of course it's BBC Tees).
Note the Spotmaster triple stacked cart machine (with no record capability so there's an extra recording machine to the right just in front of the carousel) and the tape machines dropped into the wing of the desk, which must have editing uncomfortable.
Like BBC Radio Lancashire the station had previously been equipped with the Mark 2 Desk, as documented on Roger Beckwith's great Old BBC Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories site.
Thanks to Stan for allowing me to use his photo.
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