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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
ARFON
| Photos by Robin Brand | Page last updated: 2020-10-29 |
| I took these five pictures during the construction of the Arfon mast in 1962. My father worked for a building company involved. I was 14 at the time and had only a simple camera which used Ektachrome size 127 slide film. We lived near Bangor at the time, and our first TV was donated by a colleague of my father when ITV arrived in North Wales – the set being obsolete because it had no channel selector knob, as until then there had been only one channel – the BBC! (I still have its volume knob – salvaged and built into a test meter I made!) The building company my father worked for (Watkin Jones of Bangor, still going) was involved in the construction of the facility on the Lleyn peninsula, presumably of the buildings used to house the equipment. |
| These first three pictures were taken on Tuesday 25th April 1962, which I assume was during the Easter holidays, so I could go along. |
| I know the transmitter became known as Arfon, as one of my slides named the location as Nasareth, after the nearby hamlet. |
| This shows the base of the tower, with our Austin A40 car for scale. I remember starting to see if I could climb the ladder just to the top of the base, but reached only just past the piece of wood! |
| Taken on a second visit in June 1962. The nuts and bolts were larger than they appear in the picture, but unfortunately the effect is lost because there was nothing to show the scale. |
| August 1963 and the equipment has been installed. As I was interested in electronics, I took this interior picture, which includes a monitor and a classic Tektronix scope. |
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