The Granada canteen has been cited by many people as a centre of social activity. It always seemed to be open. At breakfast time you could usually find film crews tucking into bacon sandwiches before dashing off filming somewhere. And at around 11.00am it was packed by the graphics department ! At lunchtime it was…
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June Buchan on trade unions at Granada TV
What about the unions, trade unions and various problems? Yes I do remember quite a bit about that. I was a member I can’t remember whether we had to be members or not? Did we – right? I remember a lot of union meetings in a big room up on the 2nd floor I think.…
Read MoreSandy Ross on trade unions at Granada
Let’s just finally talk a little bit if we could about the trade unions because you were active on the shop stewards’ committee I’ve always thought the problem in the early years with trade unions was quite a big one. Granada was a post entry closed shop in these days. So what that meant was…
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All Granada employees were obliged to join the appropriate trade union that negotiated on their behalf. The largest union was the The Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT) which represented producers, directors, researchers, production assistants, camera operators, sound, film and VTR editors plus others. One of the principal members during the 1980s was…
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June Buchan on Granada’s links with the region
What about Granada’s position within Manchester? How important was it to the region? Oh I think hugely important, I really do. Granada Reports, very important programme. I think people identified with it, I think people identified with people like Bob Greaves and Tony, Trevor Hyett and who was that lovely man, erm, he had been…
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June Buchan talks about working on the programme ‘Coronation Street’
Tell me about your time on Coronation Street. I loved it, I absolutely loved it but I found it quite difficult because I got on quite well with local filming, documentary filming but drama was something else, particularly filming I found difficult because I never quite grasped ‘crossing the line’, I never quite understood what…
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David Boulton remembers his final years at Granada and how the company changed
The late ’80s things really began to change in Granada. I suppose the biggest manifestation of the change was that for all the years I had been working there I’d been vaguely aware that up on the top floor there was a whole lot of accountants you occasionally saw coming through the door in their…
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