Issue 62 — June 2007
Open Door
Pulling pints from barrels in the former Carpenters Arms in Nelson Street If you want to see what Jericho was like 30 years ago, go to the Jericho Echo website. In 1974, the BBC Community Programme Unit broadcast a series called ‘Open Door’. The producers invited community groups to suggest ideas for programmes and then supplied them with a BBC camera crew.
Maggie Black and Lucy Willis, who then shared a house in Cardigan Street, decided to make a programme on Jericho. This unique historical record, screened in April 1974, is the result — a tale of pigeons and squatters, pub-goers and shoppers, also featuring children at the old St Barnabas school.
The old St Barnabas school, now converted to a row of houses as ‘School Court’.
