1951: Building the HOLME MOSS TRANSMITTER | Newsreel | Making of... | BBC Archive

Derek Burrell-Davis visits the BBC's new transmitter at Holme Moss - the highest transmitting station in England, and explains how a team of surveyors, broadcast engineers and determined labourers and construction workers managed to erect the massive transmitting tower atop the area's highest peak.

Clip taken from BBC Television Newsreel, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 12 October, 1951.




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