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Daventry Calling...
A futuristic tour of Daventry's major broadcasting facility during its 1920s heyday.
Overview
The visuals in this Topical Budget newsreel item certainly pack a punch. The futuristic valves inside Daventry's broadcast station, and its impressively tall masts outside, made the 5XX long-wave radio facility 'space age' for 1925. Located on Borough Hill on the outskirts of Daventry, it reached 94% of the population, and still has a single mast to transmit the BBC's DAB signal.
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On location with David Hemmings on Daventry High Street.
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