Hello deer

Thanks for all your lovely comments on my last post, and yes, we are still in London - North London, Muswell Hill to be precise or Highgate as one likes to say!

Nothing opens before 8am.

Erbie is an early riser, so we have been exploring. This is the disused Railway Track nearby, lined with brambles - hurrah. It leads to...

Alexandra Palace (Ally Pally to the locals)

The birthplace of television

“Alexandra Palace is situated in North London and known around the world as the birthplace of television.

In fact it was never owned by the BBC, but in 1935 the Corporation leased the eastern part of the building from which the first public television transmissions were made. In 1936 it hosted trials between the EMI-Marconi and Baird television system to decide who would carry the television standard for the future.

Studio A was equipped with the Marconi-EMI Emitron system, while Baird installed his mechanical systems in Studio B. The Emitron camera proved far superior to Baird's cumbersome film technique, which never developed beyond an experimental stage.

These early transmissions were famously introduced by one of the very first presenters, Elizabeth Cowell, with the words "This is direct television from Alexandra Palace…"”

I know that darling man Richard Attenbourgh did some early transmissions from here.

Anyway it also has deer.

Lovely early morning deer, dear.