Pirate Radio

[baza]

1500. today marked the 51st anniversary of the Marine Offences Act which brought to an end an era of free radio. Are you old enough to remember them, which was your favourite DJ or station. Mine was Caroline then London.

[jennyjoan]

wherever yous are going I wanna go with you - right heeeeeer---------

[237SJ]

Baza - Have a read of Ships In Troubled Waters by Nigel Harris if you can get hold of it

[baza]

No, not heard of it but sounds like a good read. I did have a double LP of jingles and clips but I leant it out never to be seen again, on Amazon it is available for silly money.

[237SJ]

There were a couple of radio programmes on the BBC a while ago about pirate radio. Probably to commemorate the Marine Offences Act. I recorded them and I still have them. I`ve been meaning to try to get them from the hard drive on my TV recorder to a disc so that I can keep them for posterity.

[derek-33]

radio 270 off bridlington coast

[baza]

Derek, was that one of the stations that played "Easy listening music"

[derek-33]

no baza, no different to radio Caroline of which i had a t/shirt
loved the old pirate ships radio on medium wave when it was rough the the turntables "wowed" a lot
http://radio270.net/

[baza]

Derek, don't remember that one but you do which is the main thing. A few years later we had RNI which like the earlier pirates had more than it's share of troubles.

[bainbrig]

Radio 270, ‘Voice of the North”.

Moored off Scarborough, except when the radio mast fell down and we were moored IN Scaarborough.

We? That’s right, not that my name was Bainbrig in 1966.

Oh youth, where have you gone.

[andy-hughes]

For those who blame the nasty old Tories for being too stuffy to allow the pirates to continue, we should remember that it was a Labour government who brought in the Marine Offences Act - a rare misplaced piece of behaviour from Tony Benn who was the Post Office Minister at the time.

[baza]

AH, I have not blamed any politicians as such but John Stonehouse was not on my Christmas card list.

[naomi24]

Fiddling with my car radio on a long drive home last night I happened upon Radio Caroline, no longer a ‘pirate’ I presume. I had no idea it existed. I listened to a very interesting programme remembering Elvis Presley who died on 16 August 1977.

http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

[murraymints]

radio Caroline..remember listening as they ran aground and had to abandon ship for a while

[derek-33]

there are a few videos on you tube
"radio 270"

[baza]

Hope this thread brought back good memories when we were all younger and fitter, where did the time go ?

[bainbrig]

270 was crewed by an elderly Dutch captain, his son being the 'crew'. I remember them well, as they taught me to say "Can I borrow 20 guilders".

The ship's cook was a mad man from Scarborough, who managed to feed us with huge quantities of bacon and fried eggs - oh, and the inevitable cans of peaches.

Most dangerous point was when I climbed the broken mast (when the ship was in Scarborough harbour). Drunk, of course. I've been scared of heights ever since...

BB

[bainbrig]

Some people, when I tell them I was a DJ on the pirates, ask which one.

Round here, no-one cares, not even those to whom Radio 270 was their 'favourite'.

Roll on death and obscurity. Well, I've got the obscurity, so maybe death will be more significant.

BB