In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
Seeing this all again brought back memories. I visited the EMI factory
many times in the 1970s. In fact there was little difference between
the EMI, CBS and Decca factories. I also paid a visit to the old Saga
factory at Kensal Rise, and the factory of Charles Rumble (yes really!)
down in sunny Surrey.

In the '60s a pal of mine who was a trainee cameraman at the BBC got the
chop. Dunno why as he appeared pretty promising at his job, and a nice
chap to boot. I'd guess a personality clash on his crew or whatever.

He then got a night shift job doing pretty well everything at Saga -
certainly the pressing, but I'm not sure about cutting.

His name was Reg Smythe. Often wondered what happened to him - I moved out
of the house in Westbourne Park Villas which was near totally occupied by
BBC types.

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On Tue, 20 May 2008 19:19:47 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
Seeing this all again brought back memories. I visited the EMI factory
many times in the 1970s. In fact there was little difference between
the EMI, CBS and Decca factories. I also paid a visit to the old Saga
factory at Kensal Rise, and the factory of Charles Rumble (yes really!)
down in sunny Surrey.

In the '60s a pal of mine who was a trainee cameraman at the BBC got the
chop. Dunno why as he appeared pretty promising at his job, and a nice
chap to boot. I'd guess a personality clash on his crew or whatever.

He then got a night shift job doing pretty well everything at Saga -
certainly the pressing, but I'm not sure about cutting.

His name was Reg Smythe. Often wondered what happened to him - I moved out
of the house in Westbourne Park Villas which was near totally occupied by
BBC types.

Didn't he get a more lucrative job drawing Andy Capp cartoons?

d

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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
Seeing this all again brought back memories. I visited the EMI factory
many times in the 1970s. In fact there was little difference between
the EMI, CBS and Decca factories. I also paid a visit to the old Saga
factory at Kensal Rise, and the factory of Charles Rumble (yes really!)
down in sunny Surrey.

In the '60s a pal of mine who was a trainee cameraman at the BBC got the
chop. Dunno why as he appeared pretty promising at his job, and a nice
chap to boot. I'd guess a personality clash on his crew or whatever.

He then got a night shift job doing pretty well everything at Saga -
certainly the pressing, but I'm not sure about cutting.

Cutting was not done at Kensal Rise. Saga used independent cutting
facilities like Recorded Productions Ltd, before they got their own lathe
at the studios at Maresfield Gardens. Their recording engineer was
indeed a BBC sound man, Richard (can't recall his second name) He
moved to the North later on, IIRC. My brother, in a freelance capacity
produced several albums for Saga in their military and brass band series.


His name was Reg Smythe. Often wondered what happened to him - I moved out
of the house in Westbourne Park Villas which was near totally occupied by
BBC types.

He probably went on to great things. Many ex BBC people did.

Iain