Pictures of Bush House

[Chick]

All of this has gone now.

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[uncleglen]

I'm not surprised- all that equipment probably fits into a metre cube these days!

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> I'm not surprised- all that equipment probably

> fits into a metre cube these days!

Sure but that?s not the point. George Orwell broadcast from here during the war as did General de Gaul to the free French. Its history all but gone. They have stopped all their shortwave broadcasting relying on the internet and local FM transmitters. There are several single points of failure, no to mention Governments who can turn off the internet when they wish. To receive shortwave you just need a radio. Some of the mixing desks were hand built by BBC engineers, the one in picture 4121 was but they made it to short to get your knees underneath. I just think it?s a bit sad really.

[Jeremy]

Great photos, Chick.

But times change, technonolgy becomes redundant eventually. The fact that all that stuff has stayed in use until now speaks volumes about its quality.

I don't agree with you about shortwave vs internet though. Who owns a shortwave receiver these days? Certainly not me!

[Chick]

Well I own two. Thinking about people in lots of parts of the world who don?t have access to the internet. And you can get "wind up" short wave radios. Short wave will always be with us, plus I know the engineers who lost their jobs when BBC sw closed. The 648 KHz service was excellent, and I am not a Luddite, bit of a dinosaur perhaps. Glad you liked the pictures.

[jimmah]

Its not really lost though, it's all being auctioned off so any enthusiast/member of public can buy and own it. If they want a piece of history it's there for the taking.

Inevitably technology changes so this stuff would still have ended up being disposed of, what's more of a shame is that the lease was surrendered at Bush House. That's the biggest shame.

BTW if a government turned off the internet surely people would just make their own radio broadcasts (like pirate radio days)

[Annette Curtain]

Love those pictures chick

There's a bit of a "James Bond" feel about them

Or KGB a vibe

[southmark]

Have you seen the prices on ebay for them?