BBC Weather map filled the entire screen, with an off-screen announcer reading the next day's weather. On 11 January 1954, the first in-vision weather forecast was broadcast, presented by George Cowling. In an in-vision the narrator stands in front of the map. At that point, the maps were drawn by hand in the London Weather Centre, before being couriered across London. The forecasts were presented by the same person who had composed them, and had relatively low accuracy. The London Weather Centre which opened in 1959 took the responsibility for the national radio weather broadcasts. Radio forecasters were chosen by a BBC
Burrill with Cowling many changes since opening – mainly housing the 'Cowling Women's' Liberal Association'. In 1939 membership of the club was declining therefore to keep the Hall open it was offered to the Cowling Parish Council as a free gift and was opened as the Cowling Village Institute, but since 1971 it has been renamed as Cowling Village Hall. From 2011 there has been a total of 50 unshared households in Burrill with Cowling (the highest since records began in 1901), with 64% of these being a detached house or bungalow and a further 30% being semi-detached. The average number of people