Commemorative plaque 75017

This blue commemorative plaque records: Grade II* Listed, 17th Century private house, though the castellated decoration is later. It became the BBC Club and is a reminder of the Corporation's activity in Daventry between 1925 and 1992. On 27th July 1925, the BBC opened its transmitting station on Borough Hill. It was the world's first Long Wave transmitting station and enabled the broadcast of a national programme, which most of the nation were able to hear on the radio. At the opening ceremony, a poem written especially for the occasion by Alfred Noyes, was recited and coined the phrase Daventry Calling as each broadcast began. Recorded plaque organisation: Daventry Heritage Trail.

The house marks the BBC's presence in Daventry from 1925 to 1992, near the world’s first Long Wave transmitting station opened in 1925, which enabled national radio broadcasts.