Rather a sad story in this morning's Independent.
As television struggles to adapt to the challenges of the digital age,its inventor John Logie Baird's house has been demolished.
When the bulldozers arrived at Baird Court a few weeks ago, no crack team of heritage activists was there to meet them. The large 1890s villa offered scant resistance as heavy demolition gear brought destruction to 1 Station Road, in the genteel Sussex resort of Bexhill-on-Sea.
Yet, in the 1940s, it had been home to the inventor John Logie Baird, a frail but driven Scot who in 1923 had travelled to Sussex for his health, and there transmitted the first flickering images by television. And Baird Court was where, on June 14, 1946, he died, aged 57 – still applying his genius to technologies that would define the 20th century and pierce the 21st.
A man very much forgotten,his pioneering invention,was eventually abandoned in favour of the Marconi-EMI patent by the BBC.
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