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Blue plaque № 75017

Daventry, West Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

Grade II* Listed, 17th Century private house, though the castellated decoration is later. It became the BBC Club and is a reminder of the Corporation's activity in Daventry between 1925 and 1992. On 27th July 1925, the BBC opened its transmitting station on Borough Hill. It was the world's first Lon

g Wave transmitting station and enabled the broadcast of a national programme, which most of the nation were able to hear on the radio. At the opening ceremony, a poem written especially for the occas

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