spinalman

The Hancock thread got me thinking. Galton and Simpson are up near the top of the list when it comes to determining who created the first truly British sitcom - Hancock (yes I know there were US sit-com transfers to the UK before).

Galton and Simpson met at Milford Sanatorium in Surrey, where they were long term patients. There they established a "new" radio room from where they could make their own comedy radio programmes, narrowcasted via their own cabling across the roofs into the hospital radio circuit. With the help of an ex-RAF radio expert they converted a laundry cupboard into their studio. Their sketches and comedy turns were the begining of a very long-running and fruitful partnership and I am sure some of their later gems were influenced by their forced internship at Milford - I am thinking of Hancock- "Sunday Afternoon" particularly.

So my question is, where is this laundry cupboard? (arguably the birthplace of UK Sit-com). Milford Hospital survives, just. It has been re-vamped many times and the cupboard adjacent to the ward may be long gone, but it would be interesting to find it before the whole site is demolished. (Milford is earmarked for early redevelopment). Does anyone have any inside knowledge of where on the site is was? I live a stone's throw from Milford but have not found any information from former staff who were there in the later years.

Paul