Secrets of the EMI Archive – 2

  • 17th July 201917/07/19
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Queen Mary’s Doll’s House Gramophone The 78 record pictured (top) was made specially for the Queen’s Doll’s House. It measures just 3.4cm across and plays ‘God Save The King’.  By David Hughes MBE – Trustee of EMI Archive Trust. Surely, as a child or adult, you will have visited Windsor Castle, the current Queen’s favourite […]

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MEMORIAL UNVEILED TO PIONEERING BRITISH ENGINEER, ALAN DOWER BLUMLEIN, THE SCIENTISTS AND RAF PERSONNEL WHO LOST THEIR LIVES TESTING WORLD WAR II INVENTION AIRBORNE RADAR

  • 10th June 201910/06/19
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We are proud to announce the unveiling of this new memorial to eleven unsung war heroes, including the inventor of stereo recording, Alan Dower Blumlein, who lost their lives testing airborne radar in 1942.  Blumlein, with 128 patents to his name at only 39 years of age, was a tragic loss to his young family […]

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EMI HOME FRONT – 1939 to 1945

  • 6th June 20196/06/19
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The EMI Archive Trust thanks the men and women based at the EMI Factory and Hayes, whose contribution was essential to the British War effort, in both civilian and military roles. Photographs: EMI Home Guard,  C-Coy. 17th Btn. N.F. Team April 1944Speech: Winston Churchill – War of the Unknown Warrior – Broadcast July 14 1940 […]

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D-Day Landings reported by ‘The EMI Home Guardian’ June 6th 1944

  • 3rd June 20193/06/19
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‘The EMI Home Guardian’ is a little known newspaper created for and by C-Coy. 17th Btn. and the Home Guard based on the EMI Factory site, Hayes, Middlesex throughout WWII. This extract, written 75 years ago, marks the D-Day Landings, 6th June 1944, one of the most remarkable Allied wartime operations. ‘The EMI Home Guardian’ Since […]

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Secrets of the EMI Archive – 1

  • 14th May 201914/05/19
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‘Nipper Runs Amok’ By David Hughes MBE – Trustee of EMI Archive Trust. Archives and secrets go together, and the EMI archive is no exception. Archives are not visitor attractions; they are not laid out beautifully in lovely display cabinets. The key words are preservation and safety.  Initially, presumably, for good business practice, The Gramophone […]

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