Hartlepool Bombardment

On 16 December 1914, Hartlepool was bombarded by the German Navy in the first attack on British soil during World War I - some 130 people were killed. 

During a frantic 40 minutes, more than 1,100 shells rained down on the shipbuilding town.

On the same day, German warships also attacked Scarborough and Whitby, in North Yorkshire, bringing civilians unexpectedly on to the front line of battle, but Hartlepool was by far the worst hit.

Many children were having breakfast or heading for school when the attack began.

Fathers who had already started their shifts dashed home to collect their families and a handful of belongings before fleeing on foot out into the County Durham countryside.

As Hartlepool gathered to remember the tragic day BBC Tees where there for a full day of outside Broadcast.

The Headland area, which was home to the Heugh Battery guns, suffered some of the

worst damage with the streets of Moor Terrace (above), Victoria Place and Cliff Terrace being particularly badly hit.

Having the guns at its eastern end meant Moor Terrace was in the firing line of the German shells.

At 8am on the 16th of December 2014 the Battery gun fired again to mark 100 years since the first shell hit the British mainland. 

A service of remembrance was help and a new momorial (designed By Steve Wilks) was unvailed to the 130 victims at was was to be the BBC busses final world war 1 event of 2014

Also see..
BBC Tees.

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Southeasten Trains on BBC Radio Kent

    

On Monday, October 13th - the first day of South Eastern's new franchise - BBC Radio Kent will have presenters and reporters at train stations in Kent and London,

and during one day of ambitious broadcasting they will be debating how train services might be improved.

They will also scrutinise some of the key pledges made by South Eastern as they take control of our trains for another four years.

These include better customer service, passenger information and a better high-speed service.

BEFORE ALL THAT, they want to know what you think of local train services.

Either look out for the BBC Bus and tell me what you think, or catch our reporter Danny Rhodes, who'll be on the platforms starting at Dartford.

They will gather all your comments, and put your questions to South Eastern's new Managing Director, David Statham, on October the 13th.

Where will the Bus be?

MONDAY SEP 29TH:

DARTFORD STATION

TUESDAY SEP 30TH:
DEAL STATION
WEDNESDAY OCT 1ST:EBBSFLEET INTERNATIONAL
THURSDAY OCT 2ND:STAPLEHURST STATION
FRIDAY OCT 3RD:BROADSTAIRS STATION

Also see.
Dr Who in Kent

BBC Kent 

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World War 1 - Live Evenets

The WW1 At Home Live Events

Visiting locations across the UK, from May to September 2014

The WW1 At Home Live Events will reflect on the dramatic impact the war had on families and communities, as well as helping people to explore their own relatives' links to the war.

Discover more about the war

The family-friendly events will include hands-on activities, performances and interactive sessions. The World War One At Home Live Events will feature a mix of eight flagship events, as well as 17 others.

People attending the eight large-scale events in Woolwich, Wolverhampton, Sunderland, Dundee, Bristol, Rhyl, Portrush and Nottingham can visit The Briefing Room for interviews and presentations hosted by BBC stars including actor Larry Lamb. They can volunteer to be put through their paces on an outdoor Parade Ground and, at a number of events, make their own World War One At Home ID Permit to take away in The Recruitment Office. People can also learn about how medicine and communications were transformed during the war, including demonstrations of how carrier pigeons were an invaluable resource for sending messages.

As well as the eight flagship events, the World War One At Home Live Events will visit 17 other sites including The Suffolk Show, Great Yorkshire Show, Weymouth Carnival and Leicester City Festival. In addition to making their own ID Permits and learning about communications, visitors can also have a go at being a war reporter and meet experts from Imperial War Museums to search their families’ connections to the war. They can also hear interviews with BBC personalities and local experts and explore hands on activities in The Pals Tent and meet BBC Local Radio teams as the stations broadcast live from each site.

The World War One At Home Live Events are a partnership between BBC Learning and BBC English Regions. The BBC also continues its partnership with Imperial War Museums (IWM) during the Centenary commemorations and IWM's Lives of the First World War will be an integral part of the tour. 14-18 NOW are also key partners, and visitors to most sites along the BBC World War One At Home Tour will be invited to take part in the nationwide project Letter to An Unknown Soldier, inspired by the famous memorial statue of a soldier at Paddington Station in London. Other partners include: The Royal Signals Museum; Royal Pigeon Racing Association and The Royal College of Pathologists. 

WW1 At Home - tour listing

May 28 - 29: Ipswich, The Suffolk Show, BBC Radio Suffolk

May 31: Norwich, The Forum, BBC Radio Norfolk

June 14 - 15: Liverpool, Mersey River Festival, BBC Radio Merseyside

June 21: Stoke on Trent, Kings Hall BBC Radio Stoke Family History Day

June 24: Blackpool, Armed Forces Week, BBC Radio Lancashire

June 28: Woolwich Great Get Together and Armed Forces Day, BBC London 94.9 *

July 5 - 6: Colchester, Colchester Military Tournament, BBC Essex

July 8 - 10: Harrogate, Great Yorkshire Show, BBC Radio York/BBC Radio Leeds/BBC Radio Sheffield

July 12 - 13: Wolverhampton, The Wolverhampton & Black Country Show, BBC WM 95.6 *

July 19: Hull, Queen Victoria Square BBC Radio Humberside

July 22: Skegness, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

July 26 and 27: The Sunderland International Airshow, BBC Newcastle *

August 1, 2: Dundee, City Square, BBC Scotland *

August 4: Folkestone Step Short, BBC Radio Kent Road of Remembrance

August 8-10: Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, BBC Radio Bristol *

August 14 Okehampton, Okehampton Show, BBC Radio Devon

August 16 - 17: Eastbourne International Air Show, BBC Sussex

August 20: Weymouth Carnival, BBC Radio Solent

August 23-24: Leicester City Festival, BBC Radio Leicester

August 30 - 31: Rhyl, Wales Rhyl Airshow, BBC Wales *

September 6 - 7: Portrush, Co. Antrim. Air Waves Portrush, BBC Northern Ireland *

September 10: Gloucester History Festival, BBC Radio Gloucestershire

September 13 - 14: Manchester Piccadilly Gardens, BBC Radio Manchester

September 19 - 20: Nottingham, Nottingham Fields of Battle Exhibition *

September 21: Derbyshire Day, BBC Radio Derby

I will only be at the events in England but the events carry on around the UK

Listen to....

Full outside Broadcast from the WW1 live events at..

Norfolk
Liverpool
Stoke
Lancashire (Mid Morning)
Lancashire (Afternoon)
BBC London 94.9

And Inserts from

Stoke

Also see..
BBC Suffolk
BBC Norfolk
BBC Liverpool
BBC Stoke
BBC Lancashire
BBC London 

And

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Talent Ticket - BBC School News 2014

Talent Ticket Crew 2014

As part of BBC School Report week, BBC Bristol sent out its "Talent Ticket" crew into 10 schools over two week.  

The BBC Bus joined the crew for the first week only

Student Ambassadors from UWE joined with BBC crews from across Bristol and the UK to help give a wide range of media treated takes.


The task included, making a magazine programme,  sports commentary,  make up, reading the TV news and street dance.

The schools the bus visited are....
Monday 24^th March – Oasis Academy John Williams
Tuesday 25^th March - Merchants Academy, Withywood,
Wednesday 26^th March - City Academy, St Georges
Thursday 27^th March – Oasis Brighstowe, Lawrence Weston
Friday 26^th March - Henbury School, ,


Also see..
Right up your street - Bath
Carry on up the Coast
BBC Bristol
Talent Ticket @ UWE
UWE

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Wembley 2014 - FA Trophy Final

Its the Non-league teams day in the sun  The FA Trophy.   This year Cambridge United take on the team from the south coast, Gosport Brough.

In the match itself Man of the match Ryan Donaldson scored twice to help guide Cambridge United to FA Carlsberg Trophy glory at Wembley Stadium.

The former Newcastle trainee hit a second-half double in Sunday’s Final to sink Gosport Borough from the Conference South.

Ryan Bird put the U’s ahead on 38 minutes, Donaldson then netted a nine-minute brace and Luke Berry completed the win from the penalty spot.

It was Cambridge’s first-ever success in this competition and it gave their captain, Ian Miller, the chance to lift The Trophy for the second time in four years, following his former club Darlington’s win in 2011.

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast for the first time in two weeks from Olympic way as they would be back just a week later to see if Peterborough could make it two trophies going back to Cambridgeshire.



Also see..  BBC Cambridgeshire's Tour.

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BBC Radio Stoke's Love Bus

BBC Bus in Burslem

BBC Radio Stoke set out in February 2014 on the LOVE BUS.

The Love bus was another way of showing "we love where you live" but this week ended with the most romatic day of the year, Valentines day.  But it seemed the weather had not read the script.

LOVE BUS ITINERARY 10-14 FEBRUARY 2014

Broadcast from Port Vale

MONDAY 10TH FEB:  SAINSBURY’S PERRY SPILLER OB

TUESDAY 11TH FEB: BOTTOM OF THE IRONMARKET,  NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, JAMES WATT OB

EVENING: PORT VALE FC CAR PARK v COLCHESTER. 1800-1900 SPORT OB. 

WEDNESDAY 12TH FEBRUARY,  HANLEY MARKET, TONTINE SQUARE, JAMES WATT OB - This day was called off due to very high winds.

BBC Bus viewed from inside Tesco, Longton

EVENING: SPORT OB 1800-1900: STOKE CITY FC V SWANSEA 

THURS 13TH FEB:  CERAMICA, BURSLEM, PERRY SPILLER, ROBBIE WILLIAMS  OB

FRIDAY 14TH FEBRUARY: LONGTON TESCO CAR PARK, PERRY SPILLER OB

Also see..   The Stoke Love bus 2012.

                         BBC Stoke

Listen to....    Perry Spiller's OB from Burlsem
                      Perry Spiller's OB from Longton



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BBC Bristol, Right Up Your Street (Bath)

The Bus Climbing up on Solsbury Hill

Early in 2014 BBC Radio Bristol embarked on a year long promotion campain aimed at getting out of the office and around its patch.

The idea was to go to one area each day for a week and find stories that wouldnt have been aired.

The venues for the first week of the promotion where all in or around the City of Bath.

Monday - Weston: Outside Kings Head - High street

Tuesday - Oldfield Park: Co-Op car park is behind Moorland Road

Wednesday - New Oriel Hall

Thursday - Bath University: Outside The Chancellors Buildings

Friday - Bath City centre: Bath Bus station

The main OBs for the week came (From the bus) came on Thursday and Friday.

On Thursday Laura Rawlings came to the Uni to bring her show out before Steve Le Fevre came out to Bath City Centre on Friday to bring his Breakfast show from the bus  

The BBC Bus in Bath City Centre.

Also see.. Carry On up the Coast
                 BBC Bristol.
                 Talent Ticket 2014

Listen to...Steve Le Fevre's Breakfast show from Bath

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BBC Manchester, Love Where You Live. Jan 2014

The BBC Bus in Ashton

BBC Radio Manchester were out and about again at the start of 2014,  as part of the "Love Where You Live Tour".

A Week on the road hitting areas that Radio Manchester doesnt normally get to and this time we had a digital doctor.  Well....  It was me.  Somehow I ended up being the font of all knowledge about iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices.  It somehow worked.

Becky Want was the presenter that was out every day (apart from Friday when she had a day off).

The venues where The show came from were...

Monday 13^th January (NO BUS THIS DAY)  Lowry Theatre

Michelle Daniel presenting in Ashton.

Tuesday 14^th January  Burnside Community Centre, Langley                                         

Wednesday 15^th January Tyldesley Town Centre                                                       

Thursday 16^th January Finney Lane, Heald Green                                                  

Friday 17^th January  Ashton Market  (Michelle Daniel presenting)                          

Saturday 18^th January  Woodford Park Garden Centre      

Loads of people came to see Becky and loads more came with a digital problem.

Listen to
Becky's Show from the 15th of Jan

Becky's Show from the 16th of Jan

Becky's Show from the 17th of Jan (By Michelle Daniel)

Also see..
BBC Manchester's Austerity ChristmasBBC Manchester at the FA Cup Final

Also on my blog Turn Back Time

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