Daily Herald Photograph: Passengers watching first BBC television programme

Daily Herald Photograph: Passengers watching first BBC Daily Herald Photograph: Passengers watching first BBC

Daily Herald Photograph: Passengers watching first BBC
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Daily Herald Photograph: Passengers watching first BBC
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/11486
Materials:
paper
type:
photographic print