Nellie Melba Guglielmo Marconi

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# Marconi House, The Strand Standing before Marconi House on The Strand, you're positioned at the birthplace of British broadcasting—a modest address that became ground zero for a revolutionary transformation in how information and entertainment reached the British public. From May 1922 to November...

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Marconi House, The Strand

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Marconi House Within this building Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited operated their famous broadcasting station 2.L.O. from May 11th to November 14th 1922 when it became the first station of the British Broadcasting Company. The first pre-announced broadcast of public entertainment took place two years earlier when Dame Nellie Melba sang from Marconi's Chelmsford Works on June 15th 1920