Anglia Television Knights

The Anglia Knight is over 100 years old and was commissioned originally by the King of the Netherlands.
The king was a patron of a society called The Falcon Club, which met once a year to compete in horse races, falconry and other sports.
In 1850, the King felt so confident that he would win the contest that he commissioned a trophy from a London firm of silversmiths. The trophy was modelled on the statue of Richard Coeur de Lion, which stands outside the House of Parliament, but it was made to represent the Black Prince.
However, to the King's dismay it was won by an Englishman and brought back to Britain where it remained in the possession of the victor's family until 1959 the year Anglia first went on the air.
A famous firm of Bond Street jewellers and goldsmiths (Aspreys) was commissioned to make certain modifications including the pennant on the lance and the magnificent trophy became the famous symbol of Anglia Television.
The Anglia Knight is made of sterling silver and weighs over 700 ounces. The detailed work was hand-chased by a superb craftsman.
The music that is heard when the knight is on air is part of Handel's Water Music, specially arranged for Anglia Television by Sir Malcolm Sargent.
Thanks to Steve Hearn and Adrian Ruck

[@barbugia123]

And now, from Norwich. ITS THE QUIZ OF THE WEEK!

[@97channel]

It's a revolving ornament as a TV ident. The genius in that would never be realised today.

[@Skyswinger]

When I was a kid my mother told me that the Knight on the horse was me and I believed her. Whenever I heard the music I would rush to the tv and proudly watch myself with a big grin on my face.

[@Yaris510]

Ah, those were the days! Thank you for uploading - Anglia's spinning silver knight brings back happy childhood memories

[@Kirkdicanio88]

I loved this knight. Reminds me of Sale of the Century and later that Saturday, Tales of the Unexpected. In London we got ITV but when we went away to Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey we got Anglia. Great memories

[@bingobearuk]

Anglia was ITV as well, in London you got Thames or at the weekend you got LWT...... All part of the ITV group

[@Kirkdicanio88]

@@bingobearuk yes you are correct. I think it said ITV in the papers? It's so long ago.

[@gaggymott9159]

I live in the Ulster (Northern Ireland region), but we still have ATV productions. Upload TWO is the ident I remember best! ❤❤❤

[@drtimsmith]

Memories... :) The Knight was indeed a great ident. I used to enjoy watching for him at the start of the day! Sad? On the contrary, very happy !! :D

[@desdeiclo6950]

We watch this in yugoslavia when we was kids. Watch this Animals in Africa , lions eat zebra , david belamy etc. Evry time when this start,sit and watch.

[@matthewpayton]

When I was a kid the Anglia tv Knights was a great logo.

[@drtimsmith]

I agree !! :)

[@Anabella1974]

Me, too! I miss my childhood in England (English Mum/ American Dad= military brat). Simple little things like this just make you miss it.

[@drtimsmith]

ana bella Sometimes it's the little, simple things that make life so much richer...

[@dixonthegachaclubkid3308]

The one thing I like about it is just a like the knight and the horse

[@arwelp]

That was a great station logo - I was at uni in Norwich in the late 70s and was active in the student tv service, I remember visiting the Anglia studios on Agricultural Hall Plain at the end of Castle Meadow and seeing the knight in the foyer. If I remember rightly, the UEA Audio Visual Centre inherited Anglia's (or possibly BBC East's) old black-and-white cameras when they converted to colour in the early 70s - I remember using them to produce programmes on Monday evenings, three of the cameras had zoom lenses and one had a turret with four different lenses which rotated when you wanted a closer shot!

[@animefan0077]

And now from Norwich it's The Quiz of the Week.

[@carolebarker2195]

Nicholas Parsons!

[@thakester]

it is currently on view at the Bridewell Museum in good old Norwich.

[@Kirkdicanio88]

How big is it? I loved this knight

[@mlucifersam]

We saw it for real once when we were kids in the early 80s. It was in the reception of Anglia TV. I think I was expecting it to be life size. It was tiny. You could stand it on a table

[@brendanbourke5330]

​@@Kirkdicanio88 it's quite a big I see it a few years back in the Norwich studios, I was shocked at the size of it

[@martinhughes2549]

"...and now for the quiz of the week... Live....... From..... Er Norwich...."

[@Voxac100b]

He's still looking well after all these years!

[@deldirk7123]

The background music is Handel's Water Music

[@delbhoye]

So nostalgic - remember this as a kid in the mid 70s.

[@jakkyte5733]

First saw opening of Anglia in1976 on holiday at Caster. Handel Water Music with knight on horse. Pure class !

[@hughc023]

Brings back memories . . . I left Norwich in December 1971

[@Voxac100b]

Very graceful and classy startup.... reminds me of Survival, Tales of the Unexpected,Sale of the Century and Gambit Anglia did some good network programs.

[@brucedanton3669]

Yes indeed too-thank you!!

[@discokev100]

That is strong intro to just about anything

[@Anabella1974]

I love that little Knight!

[@drtimsmith]

Me too! I grew up with this... takes me right back! XD

[@dannyhtheretrogamingmaster9548]

I wish the Knight would come back as the Anglia TV ident...

[@rajnirvan3336]

Awesome intro and remember some great shows made by Anglia

[@nataschafedd3655]

Grew up watching "Survival"...loved this introduction soundtrack and little knight

[@michaelbond4550]

The music is grand. Brilliant.

[@robertcotton9091]

Great and thanks so much!!!!!!!!! I am from Peterborough but left UK 22 years ago..i remember this so well!!! Thanks again!

[@johnstephenson01]

I remember this ident appearing on our TV screen several times a night before programmes such as About Anglia (local early-evening ITV news programme for the east of England), when I were a lad growing up in mid-Lincolnshire. Then one day ITV, in their wisdom, announced that our local TV transmitter (Belmont, on top of the Lincs Wolds) was to switch from transmitting Anglia programmes to Yorkshire TV ones, effectively making us 'part of Yorkshire' rather than part of East Anglia. Lots of people were very unhappy about the planned switch -- but ITV pressed ahead nevertheless. From then on we only saw this knight before occasional networked Anglia programmes such as Sale of the Century and Survival (which I never watched anyway) -- and About Anglia was replaced by Yorkshire TV's Calendar, which seemed to be all about Leeds and Harrogate. It's great to see the Anglia knight again.

[@chopchung]

HOW the "powers that be" make their decisions with regard to regions and transmitter allocation is beyond me!. In early 70's they opened a relay transmitter at GUILDFORD, Surrey.Everyone presumed it would be a relay of HANNINGTON and give us Southern regional news and programming.In fact they directed the relay's receiving aerials to CRYSTAL PALACE, a transmitter that is so powerful that we, out here in Aldershot, could already pick it up in watchable quality on a coat-hanger!!. Being Crystal Palace the programmes and local news sent to Guildford is all about Bow, Wapping, Hounslow etc, nothing on North East Hampshire, which is hardly a surprise. They could, at the very least, given The Guildford transmitter's location,have SPLIT the transmitter so maybe ITV could relay the south and BBC relay London. They have done this elsewhere, particularly in Kent and Southern Essex.

[@ashhinton]

TV from when I was a kid. Tales of the Unexpected and other shows from ITV regions across the country felt like television from far away lands. We had Midlands (later, Central) from the Oxford transmitter and Southern (later, TVS) from the Hannington transmitter. On a Saturday they both showed CHiPS - but always different episodes and always one was after the other for some scheduling reason - two CHiPS on Saturday :-)

[@alantheskinhead]

Its in the Anglia Studios office in Norwich. It was put on an old Dancette and the Knight came from a shop in Norwich!

[@grahamnancledra7036]

Ah yes but in the south west we had Drakes Golden Hind as our model.

[@greentambourine2323]

Now over to Gerry Harrison from Layer Road, Colchester, where the U’s are playing Mansfield in a thrilling mid-table clash.

[@gallafey]

this ident was rather classy probably the only one that didnt use animation unless im mistaken when ever i here this tune it makes me think of Survival and Tales Of The Unexpected in the days when i was about 8yo i'd be bed 9pm for school and i'd hear that Anglia jingle and I new TOTU was about come on when it was half turm id often stay up watch it

[@mrsapplez2007]

Absolute JOY

[@krandom9283]

Reminds me of living in Norwich in the late 60s

[@almost_harmless]

I seem to recall this from Tales of the Unexpected, but not sure if I remember that correctly.

[@erickpaolod.santos3719]

We called as the part of Handel's Water music Alla hornpipe (2nd Movement)

[@geemonster9179]

WOW! This takes me back to 1975 i would have been 6 yrs old

[@ianexcalibur7096]

I feel like charging into battle after watching this....

[@gwasgray9309]

I feel like going to sleep...

[@nadiadebrouq4234]

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[@user-wg7ez4ul4t]

I like the Handel's Water music in this logo.

[@rajnirvan3336]

Even though I lived in London region and still do loved Anglia logo

[@RobRobintv]

A night in shining armor to the southeast....

[@test-ru2jo]

Reminds me of the Opening of the BBC Home Service LOL.

[@Drawyah]

Ashens inexplicably brought me here! 😂

[@KieronQuinn]

o7

[@NodDisciple1]

@@KieronQuinn 07

[@TyroneDaviesWELSHMAN]

I was in Norwich last week and I walked past Anglia studios. I was led to believe that this actual status was in the lobby.. Unfortunately, it has not public access, so I will never know 🙂

[@NodDisciple1]

Back before every British Channel was BBC or Sky.

[@P17RVV]

Whats the history behind the Knight & Horse? I remember seeing this back in the 80s on TV. I think it played before Terrahawks started!

[@ashhinton]

Terrahawks! Stay on this Frequency!

[@ashhinton]

But was Starfleet better..

[@SuperGingerBickies]

Hello! The notes accompanying the clip will answer your question, as it did mine after all these years. It's pretty fascinating.

[@ashhinton]

Just read the comments. I wonder how much Anglia paid the family, and how much its worth now if still in existence. A bit of googling might be in order.

[@scottpeacock5492]

noorp786 Interesting Facts about the Anglia knight The Anglia knight is a sterling silver trophy that was originally commissioned by William III of the Netherlands in 1850 for the Falcon Club, a society that met once per year to compete in horse races, falconry and other sports. The trophy weighs over 700 troy ounces (22 kg, 48 lbs) and is modelled on the statue of Richard I outside the Palace of Westminster, but was intended to represent the Black Prince. This was found in a shop in London by Anglia tv boses to be use by Anglia tv on opening night on 27th October 1959 and use for 28 years until it was replaced by computer graphics Lambeth stand alone Anglia flag. information can be found on Wikipedia.

[@micoforion]

Handle's water music is the tune used in this indent.

[@nadiadebrouq4234]

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[@wildone106]

This used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid

[@wigwagstudios2474]

I thought of this today when I heard the song in Baby Neptune

[@gallafey]

When ever i see this ident I think some those ITV gem like Tales Of The Unexpected, Survival and Sale Of Century, oh wait was Sale of The Century made by Angila TV

[@Anabella1974]

Oh yeah! Wow....I remember those shoes. I have an American dad, English mum and when I was little we lived in England. You just brought me back home :-) ps. Don't know which station Sale of the Century was on but you can probably google or wiki it :-)

[@drtimsmith]

ana bella Yes - Sale of the Century was made by Anglia Television, in Norwich and was hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Boy! You DO know how to take a person back in time...

[@SuperGingerBickies]

+gallafey Anglia produced some great programmes, especially the ones you mentioned. Sale of the Century was made by Anglia TV. The dulcet tones of announcer John Benson would ring out after the ident: ''LIVE FROM NORWICH - IT'S THE QUIZ OF THE WEEK!''

[@ashhinton]

(Drum roll) "And now... live from Norwich!" showing my age :-)

[@MrHairyNeck]

Nice.

[@nadiadebrouq4234]

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[@TheMasterNo6]

@Skyswinger She did other funny things too - she died 6 yrs ago, great woman.

[@carpetbaggerface]

Depressing reminder of 70s and 80s living in Chelmsford. London TV coverage was out of reach so we had to watch the much inferior programs on Anglia - swede bashers galore!

[@bluray2012ify]

Sweet idents!!!!

[@gilhams]

@haveagoodweek It's in the Norfolk Archive Centre in Norwich.

[@rabbitskinner]

Why the knight?

[@manuabousaid5683]

ITV Anglia with Miss Naughty

[@billybobtanner]

Last seen galloping on the river Seine

[@gomezangla]

¡Hola! Soy de Chile, y mi Apellido Materno es Angla. No se si es un Deribado de Anglia ? Alguien podria responderme por favor 👍 Gracias !

[@hildebrandomiguel8145]

Símbolo de Heroísmo 👑

[@stevetivey3786]

Far better than the 10 seconds or so of electric vibes you got with ATV or London Weekend.

[@cdur5091]

Lol imagine being a dutch king and losing a trophy to an englishman only for it to be used of a TV station a century later 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@aquaz_eu]

Ashens! o7

[@darrowby1972]

well done! so do about 20 million other people over the age of 30

[@jamiecampbell6547]

Where is it now?

[@TheMasterNo6]

@Skyswinger Bit gullible then.... ;) Mind you, when any ads for food were on tv my Mum would put her plate of food behind the tv when the ad was on and pull it from behind the tv saying 'ta daaa' to me as a toddler and give me the food....

[@Skyswinger]

@liesje9876 smile?......I shall smile if you smile with me. :-)

[@yeismeload]

JIMMY!!!

[@duncanation]

But in 2018, it was 110th years old

[@Skyswinger]

@TheMasterNo6 lol yeah you could say that. This was a long time before critical thinking for me though, even father christmas and god existed in them days haha. What your mum done was both genius and hilarious haha.

[@trollface1994]

it stinks !

[@ianexcalibur7096]

So do you......

[@davemcmahon4045]

why.did the horse have a turd on your best shoes

[@davidbayliss3789]

Dom Joly? :)

[@MEATYOKERRable]

Yawwwn.