HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Blue Peter filming in York in 1972. Pictured, from left, are cameraman Keith Massey, sound recordist Gerry Troyna, Dr Peter Addyman, of York Archaeological Trust, and Valerie Singleton
THIS week, as readers are no doubt aware, is the 60th anniversary of Blue Peter.
The programme has been connected with York several times - I remember the team of Noakes, Purves and Singleton coming to the Castle Museum, I think in the 1960s, and I also filmed Valerie Singleton in 1972 going down a Roman sewer which runs under St Sampson’s Square next to Brown’s department store.
A photograph was taken by the Yorkshire Evening Press and I have had it for 46 years.
Keith Massey,
Bishopthorpe, York
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