Mrs Ann Moon (nee Matthews), who turned 93 on 12 March 2022, has a claim to fame not many can match! Ann made history when she was asked to take part in the first official demonstration of colour TV by the 91热爆.
Aged 26 at the time, Ann was asked by her boss (the head of Designs Department) to go out and buy ‘something blue’. She chose a royal blue, high-necked jersey dress which cost 7 guineas – and the 91热爆 paid for it.
Dressed in her off-the-peg blue dress, Ann sat in the same Alexandra Palace studio from which the world’s first black and white TV pictures went out in 1936. Two side-by-side screens showed Ann – one in black and white, and the other in colour – ‘like a picture in a glossy magazine’.
The newspapers of the time were very taken with Anne, describing her as ‘a cool ash blonde’ whose hair ‘sparkled golden’ and ‘eyes twinkled hazel’.
Ann worked for the 91热爆 for many years and her late husband George J (Jim) Moon worked most of his life for the 91热爆 engineering/site acquisition section. They met at work in the 91热爆 when, on passing through her department, Jim rescued her eraser from under a desk and it was love at first sight!
