The Anglesey Climb

View of the OB site at the top of South Stack cliffs , 1970. CMCR9 is to the left of centre, parked facing directly away from camera.

Other BBC vehicles include a Bedford artic with cable trailer, another trailer probably also for cables, camera van and another van. The roads on this part of Anglesey are little more than unmade tracks, with horrifying drops into the sea. It is hard to imagine tryin

C9 is visible with the sound room door open, and the driver's door. The roof vent is lifted, so the aircon is probably on- it was a warm day in August. The cables seem to be leading away from the cliffs towards the camera, the picture being taken from a higher vantage point. The cables are probably the power cables, coming from the generator parked out of sight. 

The crew were selected from staff with climbing experience - or at least with a head for heights! Two crew members are circled in red on this photo, looking quite confident on unstable rock 300 feet above the rock-edged sea. This is the only photo that helps locate the site, Gogarth, between North and South Stacks.

To get equipment down to the camera positions they used a bullet-shaped container which was lowered by absailing down a wire rope- and was presumably winched back up. A scaffold derrick was rigged on the top of the cliffs.

Have you filled in a risk assessment? I don't think this camera platform would be allowed now. Possibly 300Kg plus the operator would be standing on this scaffolding, whatever the weather. What could possibly go wrong?

The view from the top. A camera is being rigged on the small promontory. The line of the equipment lifting rig can just be seen top of frame. A slightly preferable position, except you had to get down and back again.