{"id":4138,"date":"2017-07-28T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4138"},"modified":"2017-10-29T18:29:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T18:29:55","slug":"rediffusion-service-station","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4138","title":{"rendered":"Rediffusion Service Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5029\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rediffusion_dsc17994.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rediffusion_dsc17994.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rediffusion_dsc17994-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2206\">Chancery Lane<\/a>, at the junction with <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2335\">Lord Street<\/a>, there was a small brick building (right). This was the Rediffusion Service station.<\/p>\n<p>Rediffusion was a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Associated_Rediffusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial television company<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-163\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/external.gif\" alt=\"\" height=\"10\" width=\"10\">&nbsp;that provided independent TV to Londoners from 1959 to 1968. The company also rented TVs to householders through a chain of high street stores.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Rediffusion Service station was a leftover from an earlier incarnation of the company. In 1927, then known as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediffusion-television.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadcast Relay<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-163\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/external.gif\" alt=\"\" height=\"10\" width=\"10\">, the company began setting up one of the world&#8217;s first cable broadcast networks, at first to distribute radio and later television to subscribing households. Exactly when this building was erected isn&#8217;t known but it was certainly after 1930 because it doesn&#8217;t appear on a photograph taken in late summer of that year.<\/p>\n<p>The building was demolished in 2016 when the adjacent area was redeveloped. While it had an interesting history the building had no real historic merit.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" noshade=\"noshade\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4157\">Your historic documents<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Chancery Lane, at the junction with Lord Street, there was a small brick building (right). This was the Rediffusion Service station. Rediffusion was a&nbsp;commercial television company&nbsp;that provided independent TV to Londoners from 1959 to 1968. The company also rented TVs to householders through a chain of high street stores. However, the Rediffusion Service station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4122,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4138\/revisions\/5028"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}