ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and of Man. Granada originated as Granada Theatres Ltd, which owned cinemas in the south of England. It was founded in Dover in 1930 by Sidney Bernstein and his brother Cecil; it was named after the Spanish city of Granada. The company was incorporated as Granada Ltd in 1934 and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1935; Granada Theatres Ltd became a subsidiary of the new company
Oliver Graham-Jones was born in 1919 and lived in Harborne, Birmingham. He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School and read veterinary medicine at the Royal Veterinary College in London.
After qualifying in 1941, he bought his own practice in Camberley, Surrey. Shortly afterwards he volunteered for the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in Italy, looking after the pack mules.
Graham-Jones took up the new post of Veterinary Officer at London Zoo in 1951, and he took a flat between the seal and hippo enclosures. He was the first resident Veterinary Surgeon at ZSL London Zoo in 1951. He set up its first animal surgery, developing the 'flying syringe' for anaesthetising animals without distress. He was responsible for the health of many famous ZSL animals, such as Guy the Gorilla, Churchill's Lion, Rota, and Chi-Chi the Giant Panda.
In 1966 he moved on to become Senior Lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College in London. He was founding President of the British Veterinary Zoological Society and past President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association.
Menagerie Assistant at ZSL London Zoo
Temporary Helper
Employed in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford
Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office
Aukland Acclimatisation Society
George Walter Grabham was born in Madeira. Educated at University College School and St John's College, Cambridge, he joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1903 and worked in Scotland until 1906. He then became a Government geologist in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Grabham retired from the Geological Survey of the Sudan in 1934 but was retained as geological adviser until 1939