England's First TV Commercial

At age 22, Dan Ingman had been a reporter for The Times newspaper and had been sent to Frith St, Soho on January 26, 1926 to do a story about a [John] Logie Baird from Scotland who claimed he had an invention that could transmit images through air; the advent of televison.

His story appeared on the 28 January in The Times p.9 about Logie Baird's invention and the demonstration he, and other assembled people had been shown of the world's first working television system.

Thanks Ron, and inspired thinking about my conversations with Dan Ingman many years ago and his varied career, not to mention his wife Vivien who told me about her teaching Princess Elizabeth to drive. But her brother is far better known, being the noted landscape and portrait painter, Graham Vivian Sutherland ( 1903-1980).