Television Mast No Thing Of Beauty
Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Julv 5. Eocal bodies interested in preserving the scenic beauties of the Peak district, are considering an organised protest against: a proposal of the British Broadeasting Coiporation to construet its third television transmitter on the sum-j mic of Holme Moss in the west riding or y oiKsriire. I he site of the new station iies within the proposed Peak District National Park and has been clescribed as one of tlie loveliest moorland hillsidres in Yorkshire. If a television. station is built there it will be surmounted by a transmitting' mast 750 feet 'iiigh, „ The station, it is estimatdd, would; serve a population of about lO.Odp.nori over an afea between Thirsk, Derby/ .^ifts^prpngh and LiverpooL , ' \
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 July 1949, Page 5
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