Here's one that got away. This picture is of a Mark 3 Desk in the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker. The bunker is in Cheshire, but I believe the desk in one from BBC Shropshire. We've already seen a desk from Shropshire on the blog, and although they are very similar I don't think it's the same one.I'm pretty sure that no Mark 3's were ever installed in cold war bunkers; they're too bulky, complex from an engineering point of view, and don't work without some of the gubbins usually hidden away in the apps room. This Wikipedia article has more information about the BBC's plans for a Wartime Broadcasting Service.
The gram faders have been swapped with the panel that had the split prefade control (among others) on it. I'm annoyed ;)
ReplyDeleteThat's nothing. The mono prototype Mk 3 desks used at the old Radio Cumbria had the OS and Rep source panels the "wrong" way round, so you had Gram 1, Gram 2, Tape 1, Tape 2, Cart 1, Cart 2, Cart 3, Mics and Echo Return, then OS 1, OS 2, OS 3, OS 4 and RBS. I never used it myself, but saw someone driving a show on it and it looked very wrong.
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