Television Centre on Google Streetview

Image: John Piper's mosaic in the reception of Television Centre.

Just before the closure of BBC Television Centre in Spring 2013, Google took its Street View cameras around most of the studios and production areas which had been home to BBC Television since 1960.

Whilst the images were being captured, the filming of the Doctor Who docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time was taking place.

Take a virtual tour behind the scenes at some of the sets used in the docudrama, and see what the rest of Television Centre looked like just before it made the final transition to a modern studio centre, hotel, apartments and commercial headquarters of the BBC.

Bill Thompson from BBC Archives explains how it was done on the About the BBC blog

Television Centre remembered

  • Television Centre Remembered

    As the BBC said farewell to an iconic building in 2013, producers, presenters and technicians recall their fond memories of TVC.
  • Television Centre on Google Streetview

    Just before the closure of BBC Television Centre in Spring 2013, Google Streetview recorded the building as it was.
  • Television Centre

    The Television Factory
  • Buildings

  • Broadcasting House

    The first purpose-built broadcast centre in the UK
  • Broadcasting House, Belfast

    BBC Northern Ireland's headquarters since 1941
  • Broadcasting House, Bristol

    Former home of the Natural History Unit
  • Broadcasting House, Cardiff

    The BBC's first bespoke headquarters in Wales
  • Bush House

    Home of the World Service 1940-2012
  • Camden Palace Theatre

    Light entertainment and music from North London
  • Caversham Park

    Listening to the world, 1943 to 2018
  • Ealing Studios

    The BBC Television Film Studios
  • Elstree Studios

    Home of EastEnders
  • Lime Grove

    A temporary measure for 42 years
  • Kingswood Warren

    Former home of BBC Research & Development
  • The Langham

    Sustaining the BBC during World War 2 and after
  • Maida Vale

    The best acoustic in London
  • 35 Marylebone High Street

    The first headquarters of the Radio Times and BBC Radio London.
  • MediaCityUK

    The BBC's Northern base in Salford
  • Pacific Quay

    Headquarters of BBC Scotland
  • Paris Studios

    Former London cinema which hosted The Beatles and Dad's Army
  • Pebble Mill

    A hub for drama, entertainment and factual programmes in Birmingham between 1971 and 2004
  • Queen's House, WC2

    Centre of English language learning
  • Riverside Studios

    A film studio regenerated into a TV studio used by the BBC from 1954 to 1975
  • Savoy Hill

    The first home of the BBC
  • Television Centre

    The Television Factory
  • Television Theatre

    A mecca for the stars of the 1960s
  • Wood Norton

    The emergency broadcasting centre
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