Updated: BBC World Service equipment and memorabilia to go under the auctioneer's hammer

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Equipment, furniture, fixtures and fittings spanning a 70-year residency at Bush House in London by the BBC World Service is going to auction this month

Lot 3 - Bush House reception table and chairs

Lot 31 - one of a number of Revox reel-to-reel tape recorders

Lot 49 - an editing station from Bush House

Bundles of Sonifex DAW-P production office digital audio workstations

Lot 462 - a 102.3-inch wide full height map of the Caribbean

Lot 470 - an Audionics ADX mono mixing desk

Lot 471 - a Mobatime analog pulse clock

Lot 596 - a Wharton digital pulse clock

Lot 668 - a Sadie Series 5 digital fader/mixer

Lot 711 - a Steinway model D grand piano

Lot 1019 - framed photo of Bush House under construction

Lot 1030 - photo of DJ Simon Mayo and Bob Geldof

Lot 1035 - a photo of Paul McCartney from a Russian Service broadcast in 1989

Lot 1165 - a beautiful Knight upright piano

Some Rane PE15 parametric analyzers, Calrec RQQ2200 filters and equalizers and Calrec RQD6400 twin stereo compressor/limiters

Lot 1285 - a pair of KEF C-series speakers

One of a number of mobile music racks from Bush House

Lot 1446 - an EMT 948 broadcast turntable

Lot 1452 - a Wharton digital pulse clock with on air lights

Lot 1521 - an Audix stereo mixing desk

Article Summary

At noon today, the very last BBC World Service broadcast was aired from London's Bush House, ending a residency lasting over 70 years. The whole of the Corporation's famous international service has now moved to new state-of-the-art offices at Broadcasting House in Portland Place, near Oxford Circus. All of the equipment, furniture, fixtures and fittings, however, have been left behind and are being sold off to the highest online bidder. The first of two sales is already open for bidding and includes complete mono and stereo mixing studios, a TV studio, a mind-boggling catalog of studio equipment, BBC memorabilia, office furniture and a Steinway grand piano.

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