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followed by pilot boat Huron Spirit
Port Huron, Michigan, USA
cargo
flag: Antigua-Barbuda
owner: Briese Schiffahrts GMBH, Leer, Germany
Chartered by:
BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH, Leer, Germany
length: 119.72m / 393 ft
built: 2007
IMO: 9360207
Name: BBC DART
Vessel Type - Generic: Cargo
Vessel Type - Detailed: General Cargo
Status: Active
MMSI: 305187000
Call Sign: V2DE6
Flag: Antigua Barbuda [AG]
Gross Tonnage: 7223
Summer DWT: 7969 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 119.84 x 20 m
Year Built: 2008
Home Port: SAINT JOHN'S
The BBC HD and TV4 (Sweden) satellite uplink trucks at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland
Photo of the BBC Model B micro computer, taken from TV Cream Toys www.tvcreamtoys.co.uk - more photos, plus write ups, at the web site.
Detroit, Michigan, USA
bulk carrier
flag: Antigua Barbuda [AG]
owner: Briese Schiffahrts GMBH, Leer Germany
chratered by: BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH, Leer Germany
length: 125.8m / 413ft
built: 2011
In this BBC Australia Episode called, Why am I still Fat, The reporter went to various research institutes, to seek the new trials on obesity and its related diseases, such as diabetes.
The following video shows how Purple Colored Fruits and Vegetables may Cure...
belly-fat-blaze.com/purple-colored-fruits-and-vegetables-...
Keytops from my spare-parts BBC B. Now lapel pins. My only concern is that people will be inclined to push them while I'm wearing them thus impaling me on the metal part. Even with the back on they're quite sharp.
Detroit, Michigan, USA
cargo
flag: Antigua-Barbuda
owner: W. Bockstiegel Reederei,
Emden, Germany
Chartered by: BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH, Leer, Germany
length: 138.5m / 454ft
built: 2012
Port Huron, Michigan, USA
cargo
flag: Germany
owner: Briese Schiffahrts GMBH, Leer, Germany
Chartered by: BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH, Leer, Germany
length: 119.72m / 393ft
built: 2008
It was great to get an email from the BBC today to say they had chosen my Short-eared owl image as their Photo of the day. They used it on their Facebook page www.facebook.com/bbcnature
Take a look at www.markmedcalf.co.uk
IMO 9473248
Detroit, Michigan, USA
heavy lift
flag: Antigua-Barbuda
owner: Krey Schiffahrts,
Leer, Germany
Chartered by: BBC Chartering & Logistic GmbH, Leer, Germany
length: 144.9m / 475ft
built: 2011
ex names:
Stinnes Passat 2018 - 2019
Clipper Newhaven 2011 - 2018
BBC Look North Charlotte Leeming readyfor her aerotow flight in ASK21 at Burn Gliding Club.
Interested in flying: www.burnglidingclub.co.uk
Twitter: @burn_gliding
The photograph that keeps on giving ...
One of the most average and yet, surprisingly ... the most viewed photograph on my Flickr site by a million miles (currently over 24,000 views and 8 faves at July 2026) ...
I can only assume that many people do a search on Flickr for BBC Television Centre - but why this one comes up so often as opposed to many of my other photographs of TVC is a mystery to me.
See also www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/albums/72157620433973808
and www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/albums/72157628230096145
Any explanation gratefully received at jake_bernard@btinternet.com
This room was my working home and editing room, for six years (2007 - 2013) at the old BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane W12 - shown here just after Christmas 2010, hence the crackers and the Cadbury's Snaps (won in the staff "Children in Need" raffle after spending £7 on tickets). See
www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/3655747313/in/photolist-21R...
The room, located right at the back, on the third floor 1980's extension (West Periphery) www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/3490583903 was often described by (Comedy Producer) Jo Sargent as being ".... like a boy's bedroom" www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/5251430160/in/album-7215762.... I had to get the red car rug for the sofa (right hand edge of frame) because the cushions were covered by saliva from Miranda Hart's dog, Peggy www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/3907409735/in/album-7215762... (an occasional visitor when I was editing all three series of Miranda). See - www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/3908186778/in/album-7215762...
The true story of how I became a resident of TVC ( I was never staff at the BBC) is not unique; there were about twenty of us, conveniently hidden in various rooms scattered along the circular corridors - particularly in the outer reaches of the building on the second and third floors. Our 'troupe' included at least one member of the cleaning staff who, clearly unofficially, turned one of the small offices into a bedsit and was often seen doing strip down washes in one of the toilets.
As a freelance editor, I'd been working for the BBC on and off since 1991. In 2007 I was up at Pinewood Studios for a month (on one of the first transportable Avids, self-built into a couple of flight cases) cutting Jennifer Saunder's 'The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle' - a 6-part comedy series, parodying ITV's confessional "The Jeremy Kyle Show" for BBC2 directed by Rupert Jones (brother of actor Toby Jones) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Times_of_Vivienne_Vyle. When it came to the six weeks of 'fine cutting', I was, quite casually, offered the room at TVC by a very kind BBC Production Manager and, having recently given up The Edge (as in the company I set up with Caroline) outrageously expensive cutting rooms in Shepherds Bush, this 'free' option seemed like a bit of a gift. With the help of my then teenage son, Sam, and one of his friends, Jack, we moved all my editing equipment in one afternoon, set up shop ... and, basically, never left - simply because nobody asked me to.
After 'VV' another job came along ... and another etc. Of course it was, in many respects, a two-way street and I paid my dues, in full, in quite a number of ways. Very quickly everyone assumed I was 'staff'. A BBC pass was standard issue if you were in the building for more than a week, quickly followed by your BBC email account. From then on it was only a matter of time and formality before I was offered a brand new BBC laptop, laser printer, and water cooler (for one!). I was obliged to join the BBC Club to take advantage of the slightly subsidised bar - although I did win the club lottery twice - and stayed a member until the middle of 2018. Naturally, I served on various committees looking at the future of BBC Editing (yes, the tail end of DMI) see www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/6939384541/in/photolist-bzd..., did a very large number of unpaid 'favours' (mostly small scale DVD/VHS duplication) for other departments. In my swansong I wrote an 11,000 word report for Drama Department (which I actually got paid for) on cost savings in Post Production (rapturously received although none of my recommendations were ever implemented) see www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/6939384541/in/album-7215762... . I donated free editing services on every 'Children in Need'/'Comic Relief' and, if the building hadn't closed, I would probably still be there. www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/6174605830/in/album-7215762...
In between all this, I cut 19 episodes of 'Miranda', 17 Episodes of Jennifer Saunder's 'Jam &Jerusalem', 2 episodes of 'Jonathan Creek', a few 'Ab Fabs'
www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/6254919781/in/photolist-awJ...
... the second series of Dawn French/Alfred Molina's 'Roger and Val', at least three 'New Tricks' and a series or two of 'Watson and Oliver' - plus a number of other series - names escape me for the moment.
As a special treat, I used to give tours of the building to friends/family. Based on the official BBC tour (£9.50/person!), My (free) tour also included your photograph taken with a Dalek, by the Tardis and in front of the BBC Cubes (see example at www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/albums/72157620433973808). It used to include a visit to the Blue Peter Garden (never included on the official tour), www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/5893876792/in/album-7215761... but this moved to BBC Salford at the end of 2012 (more devastating than anything Les Ferdinand and Dennis Wise could ever have done in 1983 See - www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/21/1 ). More importantly, I tried to include lunch in the (staff) Classics Restaurant. Typically, these tours happened on a Friday (often the busiest day at TVC) when the lunch menu featured a rather good pangasius (a fish similar to haddock) and chips with mushy peas. www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/6534009491/in/photolist-egb...
On the floor of the room: numerous Digital Betacam video tapes from "Dick and Dom's Funny Business" (CBBC) See www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/albums/72157625972303657, which I must have been editing at the time (for Simon London) www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/5476665548/in/album-7215762.... Being 2010, there are the last vestiges of Standard Definition 4:3 'tube (CRT) TVs' - including, in the immediate foreground, a Grade 2 Sony Trinitron that, brand new in 2000, cost The Edge over £3,000 ... and was 'skipped' (i.e. thrown in a skip) just two years after this photograph was taken (2012), when Hi-Def 16:9 took hold. Note also, the oldest (and, in my opinion, still the best ever) working Avid in the world (ABVB board set with the original series Vers. 7.2 v2 software on a beige Mac G3, running OS 8), far right, purchased second hand, in 2000, for a steal at £13,000 and eight black Avid LVD SCSII drives - state-of-the-art and £1,100 each, ten years previously (circa 2000), and capable of storing a once mind-blowing 36GB of data (i.e. pictures) each ... but by 2013 only useful as door stops. Nothing so cruel as progress.
Other technical idiosyncratic icons of the era (we're talking Digital Standard Def 16:9 Anamorphic) include (extreme right) a DVD duplicator with a pile of sound FX CDs - and two Digibeta decks (bought for £23k each in 2000 - which I sold as a pair on eBay in 2023 - displaying errors 02, 03 and 04 - for £65 each). There's also a bottle of isopropyl alcohol for video-head cleaning - later (2014) proved to be quite hazardous to health if the fumes are inhaled (something that was practically inevitable). There's also an analogue BetaSP deck hidden right at the back. If you're eagle-eyed, you may notice a black Peli case on the floor by the sofa - used for transporting hard drives (before the days of sending files over high speed internet) - which (and tests proved) could survive a close range blast from a sawn-off shot gun. An important factor if you had to get files from W12 to Soho.
From somewhere on the internet ...
Television Centre (TVC) was the largest television studio complex in the UK. With eight medium to large production studios, five small ones and a further number of news and weather studios it dominated the industry. The building itself was huge; it was only seven stories high, apart from the tall East Tower, but the area it covered was considerable. As well as the studios, scenery block and restaurant block there were countless hundreds of offices. When they ran out of space in the 1980s they built even more offices on the roof of the scenery runway that encircles the main block (aka West and East Periphery). Thousands of people worked here every day - most not having a clue what anyone else did. The waitress service restaurant closed well before I arrived, but there were still two cafeterias and many snack bars, coffee bars, delis and tea bars all over the building, not to mention the BBC Club. The Centre once contained a travel agent, hairdresser, a dry cleaner, a florist (called 'Auntie's Blooms') and even a branch of WH Smith.
TVC closed on Thursday 28th March 2013 - just before Good Friday and I was one of the last to leave. In the end my photo ID was my undoing; 'Real' staff who had a new place to go to at New Broadcasting House had been issued with red lanyards. Being 'freelance', mine was the original blue or green (can't remember). Also, when questioned, I had to confess that I didn't have a Line Manager. Needless to say, I wasn't going to W1A or even Great Portland Street. The people in charge of relocation dropped me like the proverbial hot potato and even the IT department demanded my laptop back. I made a last minute appeal to Mark Freeland (then Head of Comedy) claiming asylum as an indespensible member of the department. He was very sympathetic and made overtues to various editing managers but, like your average refugee, I was seen as an economic migrant by the in-house Post Production Department and the die was cast.
In the final few days - and in scenes reminiscent of the beaches at Dunkirk - nearly all the signage was removed (oopps!) www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/8560349870/in/album-7215762... and many of the publicity photographs taken from the walls (oopps again!). Rumour has it that the blue chair in the picture is still being used in somebody's cutting room at home (but I couldn't possibly comment). And the clock still keeps very good time, somewhere (allegedly). The truth is (and I can only tell it now, ten years later) that I hired a white van and with the help of Danny (another of Sam's friends - who's now a very successful Art Director)
More pictures of the room are at www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/albums/72157628230096145
And more photographs of TVC are at www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/albums/72157620433973808
Apparently, Room 3331, West Periphery now forms part of a one bedroom flat that sold for more than £700,000 in 2015. I doubt you can get pangasius, chips or mushy peas anywhere nearby.
Many people were rightly proud of the community at TVC. The BBC, or more importantly the staff who worked there, believed if you were any good, you were worth hanging on to and employed on a regular basis. For structural reasons there were very few 'staff' jobs available at anything below 'execuive' level (i.e. you had to live on the fourth floor and above), but there was no real 'gig' economy either. It was a great place to work with a unique atmosphere. I know they say that, "nostalgia isn't what it used to be", but maybe, just maybe, Television Centre disproved the rule.
Vessel Identification
Name:Bbc Steinhoeft
IMO:9358046
Flag:Liberia
MMSI:636091188
Callsign:A8KK6
Former name(s):
- Beluga Fusion (Until 2011 Mar 28)
Technical Data
Vessel type:General Cargo
Gross tonnage:9,611 tons
Summer DWT:12,811 tons
Length:138 m
Beam:21 m
Draught:7 m
Additional Information
Home port:Monrovia
Class society:Germanischer Lloyd
Build year:2006
Das Areal in Turgi. Im Zentrum die Gebäude der alten Spinnerei Bebié, welche 1962 von BBC gekauft wurde. Im Hintergrund links das BBC-Areal Ennetturgi (Gemeinde Untersiggenthal).
© D a v e F o r b e s A r c h i v e s
IMO 9137739
Engagement 4,400+
**Ship Broken Up from May 19th 2018**
Inbound River Clyde for Glasgow King George V 2013
Nothing to do with the British Broadcasting Corporation I'm afraid!!....here we see BBC Anglia (IMO 9137739) laden with wind farm components for the renewable energy industry , making good haste as she passes close to Greenock Waterfront and heading east 32 nm upstream on the Clyde
VESSEL BUILDER
Constructed in Gdansk 1997
NAMING HISTORY
1997 > WILGUM
1997 > BREMER FOREST
1997-1999 > INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE
2015 > EMANUEL 49
2015-2018 > NOFIT > END