In Chancery Lane, at the junction with Lord Street, there is a small brick building (right). This was the Rediffusion Service station.
Rediffusion was a commercial television company
that provided independent TV to Londoners from 1959 to 1968. The company also rented TVs to householders through a chain of high street stores.
However, the Rediffusion Service station was more likely a leftover from an earlier incarnation of the company. In 1927, then known as Broadcast Relay, the company set up one of the world's first cable broadcast networks at first to distribute radio and later television to subscribing households. Exactly when this building was erected isn't known but it was certainly after 1930 because it doesn't appear on a photograph taken in late summer of that year.
The building is threatened with demolition if the adjacent area is redeveloped. While it has an interesting history the building has no real historic merit.
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