Caroline South photo album.
Pictures probably taken by engineer Maurice Brown.

Correspondent Byron Richards contacted The Pirate Radio Hall Of Fame. He wrote “As a teenager in the 60s, I was brought up on Radio Caroline (both North and South). In the early seventies I met a guy at work who claimed he had been a radio engineer on Caroline. When I knew him he was an X-ray engineer for one of the medical equipment companies who supplied X-ray equipment to hospitals. I was a radiographer at Park Hospital, Davyhulme (now called Trafford General) in Manchester. I think he worked for Siemens Medical Systems. Anyway he gave me a box of half-frame slides taken on Caroline South which I still have today. Although not of great quality, there are some interesting pictures.” Byron has very kindly allowed us to publish some of them here. It looks as if they were taken in late 1967 or early '68. Please note, these are Byron's property and should not be reproduced elsewhere without his specific permission.
 
Initially Byron could not remember the name of the engineer who provided the photos. We asked some of the DJs who appear in them if they could remember who took the snaps. The general consensus was that it was probably engineer Maurice Brown. When we passed that suggestion back to Byron he agreed “I think the engineer's name was Maurice, but I never knew his surname.” So we are almost positive these photos were taken by Maurice Brown. Can anyone definitely confirm it?

Roger Day.	Johnnie Walker.
The tender alongside.	Side of the super-structure on the Mi Amigo.
Robbie Dale with a rifle.	Sharp-shooter Robbie Dale.
Caroline's transmitters, made by Continental Electronics.	The tender.
Stevi Merike.	Stevi Merike.
The bridge of the Mi Amigo.	Bud Ballou writes: “This picture looks like the entrance to the ‘Bag O'Nails’, the name given to the cabin used by Carl Mitchell and someone else, which was located below the antenna. You had to go down a ladder to get into it.”

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