[…]e I thought I must get another job as quickly as possible. So my father being in the City, had a few contacts, and so on, and one of his contacts was Baird, John Logie Baird. You see the reason being that the Baird Company was just in the throes of floating a company. That's another story. The early[…]
[…]he didn't believe in it. Furthermore, he thought it wasn't properly developed. And to certain extent, he was right in as much as everyone thought the Baird system is going to work and of course it clearly was not going to work it was going to be an electronic system and not a mechanical system. And […]
[…]o go and see dear old AGD West who'd been head of the sound department at Ealing who'd also fallen fowl of Dean and I said what's he doing. He's with Baird Television, he's looking for somebody for some photographic process they're into. I went to see West and he greeted me like a long lost brother […]
[…] hospital nurse, that's all I remember.[Laughter]John P Hamilton With a yellow face!Roy Fowler: Was it - I wonder - was it the experimental Baird system? Which is why you had to move to it?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes, I think it was. I suppose it was.John P Hamilton Yes it was, yes, bec[…]
[…] my time, and people like Sydney Stone and Greeve Del Strother had been trained there.  So, I went down there and I was introduced to Teddy Baird.  And Teddy Baird introduced me to other people. And that's the way I was able to look around and see what was going on with Conrad Ve[…]
[…]sets were having to be done at Wembley. But I met him there and he was a very fatherly man.WT: Do you know who I first worked with for television, Mr Baird.LW: How did that happen.WT: When he was experimenting in a room behind the BBC, he was always asking for people to come and jig up and down in f[…]
[…]mber, about four or five months before it actually officially opened and started on the installation. And that's where I met you. That's right on the Baird side, down, down the corridor and EMI were in Studio A . Alan Lawson  1:37  What. What did you do? Did you have anythin[…]
[…] area?Reg Sutton: I was a little while at Ally Pally when I first started with the BBC. I spent a couple of weeks at Ally Pally when they were on the Baird system.Roy Fowler: Really?Reg Sutton: In fact in my younger days I made a Baird television.Roy Fowler: What are your memories of the Baird syste[…]
