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Whenever I travel out to Webbs' Garden Centre in Wychbold, there's still a large selection of transmission masts to be seen along the A34 between Bromsgrove and Droitwich.

I expect these masts to disappear sometime between 2035 and 2040 when existing DVB-T television broadcasting is switched-off in favour of DVB-IP.

In my youth, during holidays, I would often cycle 17 miles and back to watch Pebble Mill at One being broadcast live at lunchtime - and, on one such visit, filmed Jousting on their front Green with my Canon Super8 camera. Most times, I would watch from just outside the foyer or from the roadside, and on a couple of occasions, I was part of the audience.

For work, I would often travel to BBC Radio WM at Pebble Mill to either arrange for the recording of public service broadcasts or for meetings with senior producers about their outside broadcasts at our Christmas Concerts.

On one occasion, I arrived at BBC Radio WM expecting to record a short broadcast segment for one of our major outside events, only to discover to my unprepared horror that Malcolm Stent was recording an entire half-hour programme solely featuring commentary from me on my work.

(At least the two independent radio stations I also dealt with gave me fair warning on their expectations first before I was interviewed during their live programming).

Sadly, Birmingham Dental Hospital now resides where BBC Pebble Mill once stood.