These photos by cameraman Bhasker Solanki are from a Showaddywaddy performance at BBC Pebble Mill. The camera operator in the lower photo is the late Bob Hubbard, and seated next to him is Robin Sunderland, also a camera operator, probably then an assistant. Robin has kept the hat safe all these years, and here he is with it in 2021.

He worked on several Pebble Mill dramas in the 1970s and early '80s, often with producer Peter Ansorge. His first Pebble Mill production was Black Christmas, in 1977; followed by Empire Road (series 1 and 2), the first black British soap opera, 1988-9; and Easy Money, part of Playhouse, 1982. He also wrote an episode of Doctors in 2001, which ...

The Pebble Mill building proved ideal in providing multiple locations for 'Doctors'. With a little dressing the corridors and exterior could be made to look like a hospital or police station. The photos include: Kenny Ralston (swinging the boom in the second photo), Tabitha Wady, Natalie J. Robb, Tom Butcher, and Corrine Wickes.

Planning history of Pebble Mill When the BBC moved out of its Pebble Mill studios, Birmingham City Council with Advantage West Midlands and the Rover Task Force undertook a detailed study to see if the site was suitable for new, technology based employment and services for local people. Outline planning permission was granted in 2003 for a ...

University Science Park, Pebble Mill 36,000m² of research and industrial space for specialist biomedical sciences on site of former BBC Midlands headquarters.Developer: Calthorpe Estates/Advantage West Midlands/University of Birmingham/Birmingham City Council Architects: David Lock Associates (Masterplanners) Status: Approved in Outline

The development agency Advantage West Midlands was scrapped by the government - a BBC investigation reveals what happened to its assets. ... The site where the BBC's Pebble Mill studios once stood ...

Selly Oak New Road - April 2010 Update B. Following my preceding post, Selly Oak New Road - April 2010 Update A, this update includes pictures on the current developments to the Selly Oak New Road and works to link the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital to the road and information from BIRSE Civils who are the main contractors working on the site.

Birmingham Metro Area. A38 Technology Corridor - Pebble Mill, Edgbaston - Medical Research Park. Tags calthorpe estates

The 6F2 was overlain with geosynthetic material and topsoil, reclaimed from Advantage West Midlands' nearby Pebble Mill site Project challenges Due to its location, innovative methods of dust suppression, including inventive use of a cherry picker and a bespoke dust screen, were required to prevent dust travelling to the adjacent prestigious ...

Here is a link to 'TV Ark', a site which includes short clips from a number of 'Midlands Today' episodes. Clips include the first Midlands Today from 1971, as well as excerpts from presenters David Stevens, Alan Towers, Kathy Rochford, Nick Owen, Sue Beardsmore, Kay Alexander, Brian Conway, David Davies, Bernadette Kearney, Andy Knowles, Richard Uridge, Lawrence Lee, …

The BBC's Pebble Mill complex opened in 1971 on a 6 acre site and was the hub of regional programming – including the popular Pebble Mill at 1 show which ran from 1973 to 1986 along with regional news programmes and Gardening Today for which the BBC also 'annexed' part of Kings Heath Park. ... Advantage West Midlands, the Regional ...

University Science Park, Pebble Mill 36,000m² of research and industrial space for specialist biomedical sciences on site of former BBC Midlands headquarters.Developer: Calthorpe Estates/Advantage West Midlands/University of Birmingham/Birmingham City Council Developer: Pebble Mill Investments Architects: David Lock Associates (Masterplanners)

A meeting of members at Pebble Mill voted to start a trawl for voluntary redundancies after the first meeting with management to discuss the planned closure of both BBC TV studios in Birmingham. Members also backed BECTU's efforts to mount a campaign among local MPs and councillors over the controversial shut-down of the West Midlands' last ...

Advantage West Midlands say they are currently concluding negotiations with the freeholder, Calthorpe Estates, who will promote the site as a new biomedical science park.

Note that the presenters included Michael Ball, alongside Midlands Today presenters: Nick Owen and Nina Nannar. Thanks to Harvey Pope for making the list available. The following comments were left on the Pebble Mill Facebook Group: Matthew Sly: 'I was Pudsey Bear that year, we did the majority of it from Nat West in the Town Centre.

An Aerial photos of Pebble Mill Plans for a technology park on the site of the BBC's Pebble Mill studios have been unveiled by Advantage West Midlands and …

Pebble Mill is the accumulation of over a decade of strategic planning and implementation, working in partnership with Birmingham City Council, the former Advantage West Midlands and a number of strategic partners to develop the …

The stories from Pebble Mill, the BBC studios in the West Midlands. This site is to celebrate and document programme making at BBC Pebble Mill from the building opening in 1971 to being demolished in 2005. There are video interviews, photographs …

Pebble Mill is the accumulation of a decade of working. The Estate has worked with partners including Advantage West Midlands and Birmingham City Council to realise its vision for the former BBC in the Midlands site.

Network West Midlands 5; New Street 2; New Street Station 83; NHS 3; NIA 6; Northfield 1; Old Rep 1; Pallasades Shopping Centre 4; Paradise 3; Paradise Circus 23; Park Central 9; Patel Taylor 2; Pebble Mill 6; photography 4; Purnell's 2; Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham 8; Resorts World 2; River Rea 1; Rotary International 1; Rough Guide 1 ...

Demolition of Pebble Mill Simon Dale & Martin Smith Advantage West Midlands Questions and discussion 15:20 Conference close See overleaf for day one programme wEDnEsDAy 01 MARch 2006. BRE is the UK's leading centre of expertise for …

And Advantage West Midlands and others ... ' and the recently opened Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry on the site of the old BBC studios at Pebble Mill, the cluster is attracting world leading businesses – such as biotechnology specialist Binding Site – and encouraging property developers to build out further to ...

Property Advantage West Midlands. Issue 20 ... such as Pebble Mill, and the Heartlands Medipark. ..., and Poston Mill Park who picked up an award for Excellence in ...

Pebble Mill. Ferris, I. Advantage West Midlands. 13/01/03 → 31/07/03. Project: Other Government Departments. Central Coherence Test Pilot Project. ... Involving Lay Assessors in the Selection of GP Trainees in the West Midlands. Bullock, A. NHS EXECUTIVE. 1/05/02 → 30/04/03. Project: Other Government Departments. MOET : Managing Obstetric ...

The photo is from the first of four World Rally series produced by BBC Pebble Mill. It was taken on 13 April 1995 in Kenya. Jim Knights (camera) and Gordon Nightingale (sound), from Magpie were part of the crew on all the World Rallies done at Pebble Mill.

The company is currently providing support on the redevelopment of Longbridge with Advantage West Midlands, Pebble Mill with Calthorpe Estates and The Cube at the Mailbox. From Birmingham International Airport's ongoing developments, and the redevelopment of New Street Station to the next generation of schools for the Region's children ...

Advantage West Midlands is looking to shake up its multi-million pound land and property operation as a big sell-off looms.

Pebble Mill was home to the BBC in the West Midlands for 33 years Bulldozers have begun demolishing the main building at the former home of the BBC in the West Midlands, Pebble Mill. The famous broadcasting centre, from where programmes such as Top Gear and Dalziel and Pascoe were made, closed for good at the end of 2004.

Fort Dunlop, the site of the former tyre factory which was built in 1916 was left derelict for years until money became available through Advantage West Midlands the Regional Development Agency. This used to be one of the world's largest factories but with money from Advantage West Midlands it was converted to retail and multi purpose use.

Regional development agency Advantage West Midlands has a 95 year lease on the site. Advantage West Midlands Chief Executive John Edwards said: "The demolition of Pebble Mill is the first step on ...

Pebble Mill is the accumulation of over a decade of strategic planning and implementation, working in partnership with Birmingham City Council, the former Advantage West Midlands and a number of strategic partners to develop the 27 acre site.

University Science Park, Pebble Mill 36,000m² of research and industrial space for specialist biomedical sciences on site of former BBC Midlands headquarters. Developer: Calthorpe Estates/Advantage West Midlands/University of Birmingham/Birmingham City Council

Advantage West Midlands has taken over the lease of the nine-acre BBC's site. Pebble Mill, which opened in 1971, is expected to be converted into a business park.

When the BBC moved out of its Pebble Mill studios, Birmingham City Council with Advantage West Midlands and the Rover Task Force undertook a detailed study to see if the site was suitable for new, technology based employment and services for local people. Outline planning permission was granted in 2003 for a Science Park on the Pebble Mill site ...