History – BBC North Regional Broadcasting

BBC North West began life in the late 1920s as a large supersize region – BBC North. It covered the North West, North East, Cumbria and Yorkshire. In 1962 BBC North East was created with a dedicated regional news programme "Home at Six" The remaining North region was served with "North at Six" Then in 1968 the region was split up into 2 smaller regions with bases in Manchester and Leeds.

Dickenson Road

The first BBC North West studios were at Dickenson Road when the BBC bought the studios from Mancunian Films in 1954, who had converted it from a former church based in South Manchester's Rusholme. It housed the newly formed regional network programmes production base.