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Daventry Calling...

A futuristic tour of Daventry's major broadcasting facility during its 1920s heyday.

Non-Fiction 1925 1 mins Silent

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.

Original title

Daventry Calling... Topical Budget 727-1

Genres

Non-Fiction

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Daventry

Language

English

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