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Many years ago, BBC Wales was recording
in the Abbey and this was one of the pics I took. In those days the
cameras were SD (standard definition) and big and heavy. |
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We were experiencing one of the coldest, snowiest
Decembers in memory. Here, as I arrive in the car park, some very frozen
vehicles await their owner. |
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Everything is covered in a thick blanket of snow. |
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Even the statues in the church yard. |
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The first truck is manoeuvred into
position via steel tracking across the grass at the rear of the Abbey. |
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Out in the main street, there are other signs of the
icons of Christmas. |
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A 'ladder beam' is rigged along the entire length of
the Abbey at the top of the huge (9 feet diameter) columns.
Here, you can see the wheeled Tallascope that enables the
lamps to be rigged and adjusted by my colleagues from E.L.P. (Elstree
Light and Power) |
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Here the ladder beam can be seen more clearly with
some of the lamps in position. |
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I took a short walk down to the rivers
edge. This is the river Avon and it is slowly freezing over.
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Looking back across to the Mill and
Abbey. |
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In the bleak midwinter? |
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The feathered life is not best happy with things as
they are. |
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All a bit cold.
Minus 6C actually. |
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Back at the hotel, it looks pretty cold too. |
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No takers for a round today. |
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The huge Unit 7 HD TV truck is helped into position.
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It weighs in at 38 tonnes and has a 60
foot turning circle.
It has expanding sides which enable it
to become a substantial mobile control room. |
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I was told that it needed two tractors and some
pretty meaty chain to get it into position. |
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It is big, and long as well as heavy! |
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The Unit Manager, John Roberts and I are very happy
that the hardware is now in position. |
