AV News 192 - May 2013
Letters
Sir George Pollock Hon FRPS
Thank You
Thank you so very much for the moving tribute to Doreen in the February edition
of AV News. It is six months since she died, and it got to me very directly. This
issue will go into the family archives.
It is amazing how the magazine has grown. The first issue, Jul/Aug 1976, had
only 5 editorial pages. True, there were a total of 9 pages, but the last four pages
consisted entirely of the names and addresses of the 65 first subscribers. The
first 37 issues were all produced in the same way, typewritten on A4 (for some
time single-sided), Roneod, and stapled in the top left hand corner. But it grew,
and six years later, Issue 37 Jul/Aug 1982, the 'RPS AV Group Newsletter' as the
heading had it, had grown to 14 pages, and members names and addresses
were no longer published. Issue 38 Sep/Oct 1982 saw the reduction to A5 with
the start of Michael Tickner's editorship, the reduction of the name to ‘A-V News’,
and printing on blue paper. It was not until Issue 79, Jul-Aug 1989, that Michael
introduced a thin card cover with a photograph on the front, the format still in use.
By then he had succeeded in attracting quite a number of advertisements, alas
no longer obtainable. Michael's editorship was the longest of all, lasting nearly 8
years; his last issue was No.83, and issue 84 May/Jun1990 saw the arrival of a
new and equally distinguished editor in the person of Peter Coles.
He introduced white covers instead of blue, new ideas, new layout, a new
Group logo, soon new printing techniques, and we all discovered Hebden Bridge.
Peter shouldered the burden for six and half years, retiring with a flourish in his
last issue, No.120 May/Jun 1996. It was only four years later, in Issue 143 Dec
2000, that the new editor, Bryan Gladwin, was able to print colour in the
magazine, and today, twelve years later, our skilfull editors seem to have no
difficulty in incorporating colour photographs in pages of text.
In the 36 years of its existence, the RPS AV Group's magazine has grown ten
times in size, from 5 pages to over 50, and expanded equally in scope. It has
seen a total revolution in the techniques of Audio-Visual, and has kept up with
the biggest improvement in printing technology since the invention of the printing
press in 1440. This is surely an achievement we have the right to celebrate.
Date beginning:
July / Aug 1976
Nov / Dec 1977
March / April 1978
Nov / Dec 1979
Sept / Oct 1982
Jan / Feb 1983
May / June 1990
Summer 1996
Spring 2003
Nov 2005
Nov 2008
Page 44
Issue
1-8
9 - 10
11 - 20
21 - 37
38 - 3 9
40 - 83
84 - 120
121 - 151
152 - 161
162 - 173
174 -
Editor/s
Doreen & George Pollock
Lady Doreen Pollock
John Snoad
Tony Spiers
Michael Tickner & Ann James
Michael Tickner
Peter S Coles
Bryan Gladwin
Ian Gee
Glyn & Joan Horne
Jill K. Bunting & John Smith