I've just finished watching Hackers Birthday Bash - 30 years of Children's BBC on iplayer and it brought back soo many memories of presenters from the past. I didn't recognise all of them, my prime CBBC years being probably 1987 to 1997 but these ones certainly shaped my past.
Before 1985 the BBC did show many many programmes fir children but these were shown independently with an voice-over in between, at 3.55pm on 9 September 1985 Phillip Schofield entered the 'Broom Cupboard' and the format changed. Now there were live presenters doing the continuity links for the programmes. The presenters sat behind a large control desk in a very small room, nicknamed the 'Broom Cupboard' where they talked to callers, read letters and birthday cards and filled the gaps when a programme didn't run to plan.
Here's my run down of the presenters that shaped my childhood...
