Colour Strike Colour Strike The Colour Strike was an industrial action by technicians at all ITV companies from 13 November 1970 to 8 February 1971 (although some shows made during this period in black and white were having their first transmission as late as December 1971) who, due to a pay dispute with their management, refused to work with colour television equipment. At that time ITV had recently switched to colour transmissions, requiring the individual companies to invest heavily in new equipment. Early colour television studio cameras consisted of four tubes to relay the picture: three were receptive to colour (red, green
The Grapes, Limehouse "Nocturne of Limehouse". On The Grapes’ walls are an oil painting, "Limehouse Barge Builders", by the marine artist Napier Hemy; watercolours of Limehouse Reach by Louise Hardy; and "Dickens at The Grapes" by the New Zealand artist Nick Cuthell. The Grapes, Limehouse The Grapes is a Grade II listed public house situated directly on the north bank of the Thames in London's Limehouse area, with a veranda overlooking the water. To its landward side, the pub is found at number 76 in Narrow Street, flanked by former warehouses now converted to residential and other uses. The Grapes is owned in