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Daily Herald Photograph: Passengers watching first BBC television programme

National Science and Media Museum

National Science and Media Museum
Bradford, United Kingdom

One photograph of people gathered around an early television receiver titled 'Television at Waterloo Station'. Caption on back reads: 'The first B.B.C. Organised television programme was giving from Alexandra Palace this afternoon. The Southern Railway had receiving apparatus in one of the waiting rooms at Waterloo Station and the programme was shown to waiting passengers. Photo shows- Passengers "looking in" at Waterloo Station this afternoon during the actual television broadcast'.

Details

  • Title: Daily Herald Photograph: Passengers watching first BBC television programme
  • Date Created: 1936-08-26
  • Location: Waterloo Station, Lambeth, Lambeth, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  • Rights: © Hulton Archive/Getty Images
  • Maker: Fox Photos Ltd.

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