Odds And Ends

This section of The Pirate Radio Hall Of Fame is for all those pages that don't fit any of the other categories - items of historical interest, trivia, nostalgia, whatever. If you have any goodies to offer, please get in touch.

• No man will ever forget August 14th 1967.

• Roy Barrett worked for two attempted forerunners to Radio Caroline. Neither made it on to the air but he has provided some fascinating memories of GBOK and the Voice of Slough.

• A very special beer, brewed to celebrate Radio Caroline's fortieth birthday.

• The Radio Academy Celebration of Offshore Radio August 2007.

• Birthday greetings from the stars for Radio Caroline's first birthday.

• Tony Blackburn celebrates 40 years behind the mic.

• Boss Radio & the Hallmark of Quality - seven pages of memories of Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio.

• Britain Radio & Swinging Radio England DJs gather to celebrate the station's fortieth anniversary.

• Caroline DJs get together to celebrate the station's fortieth birthday, 28th March 2004: parts one and two.

• The night Caroline South was grounded.

• Caroline South borrows a replacement ship, mv Cheeta II.

• Caroline South's ship, back from repairs.

• The Radio City (and Radio Sutch) story.

• Radio City's chef remembers.

• Looking back at the raid on Radio City and its fatal consequences with the help of some of the people who were there at the time.

• Colin Nicol interviews Radio Atlanta's Allan Crawford.

• Colin Nicol interviews Radio Atlanta's Richard Harris.

• Radio London's “Radio East Anglia” April Fool.

• The Radio Essex 40th anniversary reunion boat trip, parts one, two, three and four. Photos kindly provided by a number of former Radio Essex DJs and engineers.

• The Radio Essex / BBMS DJs gather to mark the fortieth anniversary of the station closure.

• Kenny Everett tours America with The Beatles for Radio London, August 1966.

• Memories of the journey taken by the Caroline ship mv. Fredericia to the Isle of Man in July 1964.

• 1964 cuttings from The Guardian and Observer newspapers. (This page will be deleted at the end of 2008 when our license to re-print the news cuttings expires.)

• Pictures from the Radio Caroline “restricted service license” broadcasts from Tilbury in 2004, parts one and two.

• Pirate BBC Essex Easter 2004.

• Pirate BBC Essex August 2007.

• Martin Fokkens is searching for a Radio City programme from 1966 featuring an interview with the Dutch pop group Q65.

• Keith Hampshire is trying to identify a mystery colleague from 1966.

• Keith Hampshire meets up with some of his old Caroline colleagues - plus one from a rival ship.

• Ben Healy reunited with some Radio Scotland ship-mates.

• Converting the Radio Scotland ship

• Ed Holly and Dr. Michael Henderson own former Radio London racing cars. We have photos. We also hear from the driver who raced the cars for Big L, Keith St.John.

• An interview with Caroline DJ Ric Jonns.

• Eric Jay has sent us some photographs from Chris Warren's collection of the Shivering Sands anti-aircraft fort being built. This structure was later used for Radio Sutch and Radio City. Most of it is still standing in the Thames Estuary.

• The brief reign of King Radio.

• A few pictures from the Radio Day 2005 event in Amsterdam.

• Rather more extensive coverage of the Radio Day 2007 event in Amsterdam.

• Radio Scotland memorabilia parts one and two.

• Remembering Radio 270.

• The Radio 355 story.

• The Radio 390 story.

• The end of Radio 390.

• Radio London DJs get together to celebrate the station's fortieth anniversary.

• The Radio London DJs rescue an American pilot.

• Caroline South's m.v Mi Amigo sinks. How the London Evening Standard reported the story, 20th March 1980.

• Derek Smith has sent us some photographs taken on a trip to Red Sands Fort, the former home of Radio 390, during the summer of 2003.

• Hans Stieper has generously contributed a recording of a Kenny Everett report from the Beatles tour of the States and some other recordings salvaged from the Radio London ship while she was in Hamburg harbour after the end of her broadcasting career; plus some photos taken at the time.

• Kenny Tosh has contributed photos of the First North American Pirate Reunion, held in Vancouver in July 2004: parts one & two and Steve Young has sent this report.

• Memories of Christmas and the New Year in international waters.

• Willy Walker celebrates his birthday.

• Journalist Jacques-André Widmer remembers his brief career as a cook on Radio Caroline back in 1964.

• Details of the We Love The Pirates CD compilation.