BECG - Our first open days!

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We're still very busy preparing for our open days. We'll be mounting a special display based around our Marconi Mk II camera. This was one of the cameras that televised the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. The other photo is of the BBC's senior cameraman DRG “Monty” Montague crammed into the triforium at Westminster Abbey along with a Mk II camera. In a book written to commemorate the life of Richard Dimbleby Montague said: "I used to enter with a sort of Groucho Marx straddle and make for the box seat where I could straighten up sitting down – a paradox this, but comfortably true"

Our Mk II could be the one that he's using in that photo, but we'll never know for sure.