Did you correspond with any pirate DJs during the sixties? Or visit one
of the stations and take some photos? Maybe you went to one of the many promotional
events. If you have any mementoes - pictures, letters, stickers, anything
that other fans might be interested in seeing - please
contactThe Pirate Radio Hall of Fame.
A number of people have already been in touch and provided some fascinating items from
their collections and some reminiscences:
Norah Barnes used to run Don Allen's fan club. She has donated some fantastic photos,
parts one, two and three.
Richard Crichton, Ben Healy, Hans Knot, George Morris and Kenny Tosh have all contributed items from their personal
collections of Radio Scotland memorabilia: parts one and two.
Stuart Craigen has sent some photos of the Radio Scotland
ship, the Comet, in harbour after the end of its broadcasting career.
Stuart has also donated the plans of Radio Essex's Knock
John and Radio City's Shivering Sands forts.
Brian Cullen has donated some Caroline North memorabilia and pictures from a day-trip
out to the ship in 1967.
Chris Davies visited the two Radio Caroline ships while they were in harbour in Holland in 1970.
He has contributed these photographs.
Natalie Dwyer has sent some correspondence and a photo
that her mother, Roma Roach, received from disc-jockey Ed Moreno back in the sixties.
John England has contributed a number of recordings, originally
owned by Radio England / Britain Radio presenter Tom Cooper.
Bill Fowlie has donated the original Radio Scotland closedown script
and some other goodies that he rescued from the ship back in 1967.
Ian Francis has sent a chart from Wireless World magazine,
listing all the AM stations on the air in Europe as of 1st November 1965.
Richard Hart has sent some photos from a day-trip to
Radio Caroline North and a picture of the Radio 270 ship after its time at sea.
Lars Holm has contributed a series of articles from the seventies. Published in Fab 208
magazine, they tell Tony Prince's memories of Radio Caroline.
Clive Kay has kindly sent us some Caroline Club memorabilia.
Hans Knot has contributed some fantastic pictures of the Caroline
South disc-jockeys from the summer of 1966.
Hans has also sent us some photos of the two Radio Caroline
ships, the motors vessels Mi Amigo and Fredericia.
And more from Hans: some of the fascinating documents
relating to offshore radio that he has collected over the years.
Also from Hans, some press cuttings covering the 1967 free radio rally in London.
Fred Kooreman has contributed some Radio Caroline North documents found, surprisingly,
aboard the Caroline South vessel and some photos of the ship. ADDED MAY 2008
Chris Levy had a request played on Radio Atlanta - and still has the letter
to prove it. And we have a recording of it too!
George Morris and Stuart Russell have contributed twenty pages of newspaper cuttings from before and after
14th August 1967. “The Final Countdown” starts here.
More press cuttings from George Morris and Stuart Russell covering the towing away of the two Radio Caroline
ships in March 1968. They start here.
Press cuttings from George Morris covering the aftermath of Radio Caroline's
1968 closedown.
John Richards remembers helping to dismantle Radio City's enormous
“tower of power” aerial mast.
Jim Sinclair has contributed a number of issues of Radio Scotland's 242
Showbeat magazine, part 1 and part 2.
Bob Stevenson has kindly donated some disc-jockey photographs and memorablia from
Radio Scotland.
Hans Stieper has generously contributed a recording of a Kenny Everett report on the
Beatles tour of the States; also 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 inherited Don Allen's collection of memorabilia. He has donated some unique
photos and recordings, parts one and two.
