'A' Range De Lane Lea - DEAN ST
The mixer at Kingsway had worked well. Dave Siddle gave us the job of building a new mixer for De Lane Lea’s Dean Street Studio. This is when I met John Wood. Another John Wood. This one (who used to run his own dubbing suite in Manchester) was very different to my John Wood, but we soon became close friends. He had been a film stunt driver until an accident had injured his neck. He was very tall and immensely strong. One of his favourite tricks was to lift me up in the air by my jacket with one hand - generally whilst walking back from the pub in Dean Street. He had a small Alpha Romero sports job. One very wet evening during the rush hour, he was telling me about hand brake turns. On expressing some interest, it was demonstrated to me there and then in the middle of a packed Westminster Bridge! (I visualise that moment every time I read about joy riders. Somehow, though, the Westminster Bridge episode seems different.)
This mixer was so big that I decided just to build the modules at Chelsea, and to complete all the other wiring at Dean Street. It just meant that I worked as a wireman in Dean Street as opposed to a wireman in Chelsea. This took several weeks. It was during this time that I got to know John C Wood really well. (Looking back, my life seems to have consisted of discrete episodes. All distinguished by the place and the people I got to know at the time.)
This desk is now back with us and is in the process of being restored.
This mixer was so big that I decided just to build the modules at Chelsea, and to complete all the other wiring at Dean Street. It just meant that I worked as a wireman in Dean Street as opposed to a wireman in Chelsea. This took several weeks. It was during this time that I got to know John C Wood really well. (Looking back, my life seems to have consisted of discrete episodes. All distinguished by the place and the people I got to know at the time.)
This desk is now back with us and is in the process of being restored.
The only pictures of the Dean Street desk are those that we've taken since we got the desk back here
