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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
HOLME MOSS
| Photos by TCPD | Page last updated: 2025-02-12 |
| Holme Moss is located high up on the Pennines roughly equidistant from Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield. The original mast was the second to be built outside London, extending BBC TV coverage to a large part of Northern England and North Wales from 12th October 1951 onwards. FM radio was added on 10th December 1956. The mast was replaced during the first half of the 1980's for the re-engineering of FM radio to mixed polarisation. |
| The original Holme Moss mast, taken when the installation was shiny and new in 1951. The Band I aerials are at the top and the band II slot aerials beneath. In 1951 the Band II setup was very "experimental" - at the time the FM system had not yet been officially adopted on VHF. |
How the BBC's third television transmitter in West Yorkshire was built. (BBC Archive 1951)
BBC RD report: North of England Television sites (!947)
BBC RD: Service aera of the Holme Moss Transmitter (1954)
BBC RD: Band III Experimental Transmissions from Holme Moss (1956)
BBC RD: Service areas of the Holme Moss TV & Sound Transmitters (1964)
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