Rediffusion Branches
REDIFFUSION Brighton
Stevenson Road
Brighton BN2 2BY Tel 692131
Rediffusion Brighton was part of the south east region. The district office, branch office and workshops were located on Stevenson Road on the Freshfield industrial estate.
There were shops at; 16 York Place and 103 / 104 St James Street in the town.
Rediffusion, who in the early 1960's already had a wired network operating in nearby Lewes, acquired their Brighton and Eastbourne networks from The Rank Organisation in 1968. The network had previously been in the ownership of Relayvision Ltd.
Brighton had a tram network which was discontinued in 1939 in favour of a Trolly Bus System. This too depended on overhead poles and wires to distribute the power to the Busses. Relayvision rented all the poles from the authorities and strung miles of cables to all corners of the town. However when Rediffusion arrived they dispensed with that and laid a 6 coax VTR through the ducts originally dug throughout the town for the tram system!
Brighton had about 11,000 Subscribers with a similar number in Eastbourne. Lewes had around 3,000 and Hastings and Bexhill a combined 20,000.
I am looking for information on the Brighton and Associated Branches.
Did you work there ?
What are your memories ?
Do you have any old pictures, information on the Wired System, Staff etc
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Based on information supplied by Peter Barnard
 | Lewes Aerial Site ( 1966 ) |
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Branch Picture
Rediffusion Brighton HQ as it looks 20 years on in 2008.
Do you have a picture of the site as it was in Rediffusion times.
 | Long service dinner South East Region c1976. |
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Were you at the function, do you remember anyone in the picture ?
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