Biggin Hill

Yeah.

Whereabouts are they? So we have a one big warehouse currently in Biggin Hill in Kent.

And what we have a train that stores kind of also as a like a training center, purpose built training center for people coming to the business.

But also what we have is lots of kind of like units at Yellow Self Storage that help to be more local for some of the field workers.

this is a bit, like, rogue.

And then I chased it, and then literally the night before, I think it was, or the day before at some point, the, um, the information came through, and it said, um, "Departure airport: Biggin Hill."

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And I was like...

Now I th- I was the, I was...

I'm sure lots of listeners will be like, "Where the, where is Biggin Hill?" And I, at the time, I was like, I've got absolutely no idea where.

I don't even know.

I was thinking it'd be from Gatwick or Bristol or Heathrow or whatever.

So it was that tightly controlled from Bernie that you didn't even keep your own footage, when now, with Lippity and the explosion of socials and access, Bernie held on that tight process for a long time, which protected him but probably didn't grow the sport the way you're talking about it now.

No, and they had a warehouse at Biggin Hill.

That's where I work, Biggin Hill.

Tens of thousands of tapes, and they've only recently digitized it all.

I logged half of those tapes, I can tell you.

I can

imagine you have.

From 97, 98, 99, which is what they put that amazing Ayrton Senna doco together with from that video library at Biggin Hill, didn't they? Yes.

Yes.

So that either means you've got very small pieces or you've got a bleeding huge, you've got a kitchen table the size of Biggin Hill.

So explain to me a little bit about-

No, I've got the cockpit pieces.

Amy was referring to a major shift in Formula One's broadcasting strategy in twenty twenty when air travel ground to a halt as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Instead of broadcasting races from a single circuit-based broadcast center, Formula One made the switch to run its races through a smaller trackside event technical center, which is roughly half the size, as well as through its Media and Technology Center in Bigging Hill of the UK.

The Media and Technology Center houses the majority of Formula One's processing and publishing systems.

It's also where the remote racking and color correction of all broadcast cameras take place.

And the first one I went to, because I got posted to Lewisham in Southeast London, to P Division, which was at the time the biggest division in London geographically.

And it spread from Deptford up by the Thames at the north of the division, right the way down to Biggin Hill in the Kent countryside.

It was absolutely massive.

And Lewisham, Deptford and Catford to an extent, but Lewisham and Deptford in particular were the busiest NICs.

One of the first movies I ever remember watching with my childhood best friend, one of them, Mandy Kerr, was The Little Mermaid.

I remember sitting in her house in Tatsfield in Kent, very near Biggin Hill, Biggin Hill Aerodrome for anyone who knows the area.

And we used to pretend to be aerial.

Look at this stuff.