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Roundabout Full Member Offline Posts: 214	Calling ex Pebble Mill staff Jun 25^th, 2010, 11:51am Following an item in Prospero I responded with some memories of my Local Radio days at PM and am pleased to see that the site is now on-line,albeit still under construction. The Organiser is ex BBC and would welcome contributions from all staff who worked there in any capacity. Details at www.pebblemill.org
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Administrator YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 3265	Pebble Mill Reply #1 - Jun 25^th, 2010, 1:48pm Best wishes to your site! If there's anyone around with memories, photographs, or stories about Pebble Mill, please pass them on to www.pebblemill.org (Tell us at www.ex-bbc.net as well!). Those who were involved with Broad Street and Carpenter's Road are included! Admin. An everyday story of Midland Region Folk?
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Roundabout Full Member Offline Posts: 214	Re: Calling ex Pebble Mill staff Reply #2 - Oct 3^rd, 2010, 11:01pm Following the success of the new website I was inspired by a set of photographs taken by Charles White to compose a short ode and set it to a selection of the pctures of the now derelict Pebble Mill site. You might care to view this at...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Lsvlu7Jmk
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Dickie Mint Senior Member Offline Posts: 259 Solihull, West Midlands Gender:	Re: Calling ex Pebble Mill staff Reply #3 - Oct 7^th, 2010, 9:10am That's fantastic, Pete. Ignore my private message to you! I didn't look to see where you posted first! Richard
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Reply #4 - Oct 19^th, 2010, 11:33am

Thanks for the memories Pete. Sorry you couldn't make the gathering in August at Canon Hill centre, where I was delighted to meet some former colleagues including Nick Owen. I too went to gaze at Pebble Mill two years ago and took pictures. When I saw the derelict site it made me wonder why a move was made as I understand there was just a peppercorn rent.

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Reply #5 - Oct 19^th, 2010, 4:20pm

Don't get me started on that one!!!!

Basically it was because the London mandarins didn't want any regional production centres.

The Lease was indeed peppercorn, about £125 a year I think. There's a FoI on the move I requested a couple of years back, giving costs of moving out. Can't find it on the bbc.co.uk FoI site, but I think they drop the older ones to keep the site small.

The costs of moving out plus those for the three premises PM was replaced by don't add up. Plus PM was being considered as a Disaster Recovery Centre, which would have brought in income.

And now there's rumours of yet another move!!

Richard

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David Shute YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	Re: Calling ex Pebble Mill staff Reply #6 - Jul 12^th, 2013, 11:03am Think bulging back pockets and triples all round. And now there's the - wait for it - BS of Er - what's it called - Er, Ah Yes Salford. Er right. Sort of a mirror image of ano kerching and triples all round isn't it! Laws of Libel prevent further details re P. Mill farce.
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Roundabout Full Member Offline Posts: 214	Re: Calling ex Pebble Mill staff Reply #7 - Jul 21^st, 2013, 2:23pm Dickie....well just look now at what has appeared in the Birmingham Post http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/mediacity-guru-switches-focus-sa... ....what a surprise???
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