Elizabeth Macquarie – met spiritual needs of colony

Listen again to the story of Elizabeth Macquarie, wife of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in early Australian history. She founded the oldest organisation in Australia, the Bible Society. Broadcast on Songs of Hope on 9Apr17.Rediffusion Folkestone was part of the South East Region. The town had a "Wired Vision" system and TV rental shops located at 69 Sangate Road and 33 High Street.

Rediffusion Folkestone was born out of the the aquisition of the Folkestone Radio Relay business in the early 1960's. Orginally the system had a wired 4 programme relay service incorporating a separate VHF 405 TV cable system. When Rediffusion took over the business they replaced the network with the TD-UK2 multicore wired service, 4 TV and 3 radio channels. Many of the towns in south east England suffered from poor VHF television reception so interference - free viewing by relayed signals was an effective option. Folkestone boasted 10,000 cable subscribers.

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