I recently spent a very pleasant summer evening taking a tour of Borough Hill in Daventry, a historic site for many reasons – not least because it was the home of the radio transmitter 5XX. You can find an earlier post I wrote about 5XX following an exhibition at Daventry Museum here. What I didn’t …
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The BBC at Daventry Museum
Yesterday I visited my nearest museum in Daventry. They do a brilliant job, despite only being able to open from 10-4 on the first Saturday of every month. For March, April and May this year they have a special exhibition about the BBC at Daventry. The first Daventry transmitter, 5XX began transmitting in 1925, only three …