Ding, Ding, This is Radio Caroline!
This was a pirate radio station on a ship anchored off Frinton-on-Sea on the Essex coast in the 1960s, broadcasting popular music to those of us who didn't have easy access to such things otherwise. There were various attempts to ban the broadcasts and close down the whole enterprise and the authorities finally succeeded in 1967, although I believe it was temporary and the station restarted from another location. It was also illegal to listen to the broadcasts!
So, this is my membership card for the Caroline club, as I was one of a large number of people who welcomed the station. The outside of the card is plain blue with just a tiny ship's bell in one corner as a motif.
Were we wrong to listen? We didn't think so and several of the D.J.s later became household names on legitimate radio stations.
Ding, Ding, This is Radio Caroline!
This was a pirate radio station on a ship anchored off Frinton-on-Sea on the Essex coast in the 1960s, broadcasting popular music to those of us who didn't have easy access to such things otherwise. There were various attempts to ban the broadcasts and close down the whole enterprise and the authorities finally succeeded in 1967, although I believe it was temporary and the station restarted from another location. It was also illegal to listen to the broadcasts!
So, this is my membership card for the Caroline club, as I was one of a large number of people who welcomed the station. The outside of the card is plain blue with just a tiny ship's bell in one corner as a motif.
Were we wrong to listen? We didn't think so and several of the D.J.s later became household names on legitimate radio stations.