Plaque

BBC Television Centre - Doctor Who - Patrick Troughton

Inscription

Doctor Who - Patrick Troughton, 1920 - 1987.
BBC and the Heritage Foundation

Site: 24 plaques at BBC Television Centre (24 memorials)

W12, Wood Lane, BBC Television Centre - Star Terrace

The plaque on the brick wall in the picture reads: The BBC Star Terrace, "Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love" Sylvie Dee.

Dee wrote the words to the Morecambe and Wise theme song. Eric and Ernie are two of the 24 names commemorated here on plaques installed by the Heritage Foundation in cooperation with the BBC. The plaques, distributed randomly across this terrace, form part of the audience engagement while waiting to enter TV studios. Originally a history trail was planned at BBC TV Centre featuring major talent both in front of and behind camera but this was not pursued once it was clear that TVC would close. Each plaque carries an image of clapping hands - a celebration of the links between audience and BBC talent. As of 2012 the building is up for sale.

We are grateful to Alison Kelly at the BBC who give us access to photograph the plaques and provided the information above.

The BBC announced that they were selling the building and in 2012 we learnt the plans for the memorials from the Blue Peter Garden - a move to Salford. 2013 the BBC moved out of the building; it was redeveloped and the BBC partially moved back c.2017. We had feared that these plaques would be lost but, 2019, Paul Burton reported that he's heard they are still there.

2024: Here's what happened to one of them, in the St Albans Times. "An iconic Blue Plaque which once held pride of place at BBC TV Centre has been unveiled at Harpenden’s Eric Morecambe Centre by the eponymous funnyman’s daughter. The plaque was one of a limited collection of 24 which could be seen at the Wood Lane building before it closed in 2012. ... This particular plaque was donated to the Eric Morecambe Centre by Harpenden resident Carol Berks and is in pride of place in the theatre foyer alongside portraits of Eric and his wife Joan, who made the town their home after moving there in 1967." And indeed, the photos show that the plaque has been made blue, which it certainly wasn't when we photographed it.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
BBC Television Centre - Doctor Who - Patrick Troughton

Subjects commemorated i

Doctor Who

Television programme broadcast by BBC One since 1963. It was originally inten...

Read More

Patrick Troughton

Actor.  Born Mill Hill.  Played the second Doctor Who 1966-9.  Died in a hote...

Read More

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
BBC Television Centre - Doctor Who - Patrick Troughton

Created by i

British Broadcasting Corporation

Also known as the BBC or more affectionately, the Beeb.  Founded as the Briti...

Read More

Heritage Foundation

We believe this group now encompasses Comic Heritage, Musical Heritage, Sport...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
BBC Television Centre - Doctor Who - Patrick Troughton

Also at this site i

BBC Television Centre - Arthur Lowe

BBC Television Centre - Arthur Lowe

Arthur Lowe, 1915 - 1982. BBC and the Heritage Foundation

Read More

BBC Television Centre - Bill Owen

BBC Television Centre - Bill Owen

Bill Owen MBE, 1914 - 1999. BBC and the Heritage Foundation

Read More

BBC Television Centre - Derek Nimmo

BBC Television Centre - Derek Nimmo

Derek Nimmo, 1930 - 1999. BBC and the Heritage Foundation

Read More

BBC Television Centre - Dick Emery

BBC Television Centre - Dick Emery

Dick Emery, 1917 - 1983. BBC and the Heritage Foundation

Read More

BBC Television Centre - Doctor Who - Jon Pertwee

BBC Television Centre - Doctor Who - Jon Pertwee

Doctor Who - Jon Pertwee, 1919 - 1996. BBC and the Heritage Foundation

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Last Goon Show

Last Goon Show

NW1, Camden High Street, Koko

The Camden Palace was home to the Goon Show through the 1950s.

5 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Sir Francis Baring

Sir Francis Baring

SE13, Old Road, Manor House Library

London Borough of Lewisham Sir Francis Baring, Bart, MP, 1740-1810, merchant & banker, lived here, 1797-1810, presented by Baring Bro...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Staple Inn Hall

Staple Inn Hall

WC2, Staple Inn courtyard

The well memorial is difficult to see in our photo. It's laid into the flint cobbles in front of the bench. London Gardens Online gives:...

2 subjects commemorated
Sir Roderic Hill

Sir Roderic Hill

SW7, Prince Consort Road, Roderic Hill building

The plaque is in the entrance porch of the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College.  John Oakley tells a great story of how the Queen...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Angela Hooper

Angela Hooper

SW1, Victoria Street, 70, Angela Hooper Place

Most if not all of Victoria Street has been rebuilt over recent years and Westminster Council has taken the opportunity to name a space a...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

Previously viewed

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham

Born Spitalfields. A child prodigy, Bentham went to Oxford University aged 12. He chose not to practice law but to comment on it, institutions and society in general. He is associated with the doct...

Person, Philosophy

5 memorials
A. Cleaver

A. Cleaver

Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Thomas More - Woolwich Town Hall

Thomas More - Woolwich Town Hall

SE18, Wellington Street, Greenwich Town Hall

We can find no confirmation that More lived at Eltham, though he probably visited his daughter, Margaret Roper, at her home there. From e...

4 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
John Waggett's water fountain

John Waggett's water fountain

W11, Lansdowne Crescent

The Ladbroke Conservation Area Appraisal says: "Outside St John’s church is an item of street furniture that is very rare in London. The ...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator