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Thread: A Piece of Wick Radio History....in film

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    Don't know if this has been posted before but shows days of yore at Wick Radio , maybe some old faces will be recognised. Worth a watch. Lifeboat as well

    http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=FyXhVI5p1mw
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    Many thanks for the link brokencross. I really enjoyed it and recognised a few faces but couldn't think of the names apart from one which was Neil Leitch.


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    Thank you for that link brockencross it was very interesting.
    It seeemed also that being a smoker in those days must have been viewed as being a very glamourous pastime.
    To see people light a ciggy at there work stations seems very odd now.
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    Wick Radio started it's life as a communications facility for the Admiralty under which it operated under the callsign BYG. Opened somewhere around 1908, the station was a vital facilty in the First World War and a link to the Grand Fleet based in Scapa Flow. With stations at Portpatrick and Grimsby, the stations was taken over by the Post Office in 1920.


    http://coastradio.intco.biz/uk/gkr/history.htm
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    Many thanks for that - Great Stuff !! I remember the boats mentioned.

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    Yes recognised Neil Leitch, John Macaskill, Jim Kay and a few other faces but will have to put thinking cap on to remember the names.

    Used to really identify Wick Radio when they said it as Wick RAD-io, Wick RAD-io, Wick RAD-io.

    Agree it was the done thing for practically all to smoke at work - no complaints were made!

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    Enjoyed watching this.

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    Thanks for posting that link, brokencross.

    Fascinating stuff -and brought back some great memories!

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    brokencross and TBH thanks for some very interesting video footage from Wick Radio days. Brought back many memories. Even saw a relation of mine on the Bluebell. Did anyone listen to the French ship calling Wick Radio during the "Bluebell" incident? "Week" radio.....sounded just like us Wickers!
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    i have decided i must be getting old, as i found that interesting lol.
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    In the medico clip I am 99.9999% sure the doctor says "You say he has no temperature or PULSE and no tenderness..Good".

    No pulse sounds pretty serious to me!!?
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    Quote Originally Posted by brokencross View Post
    In the medico clip I am 99.9999% sure the doctor says "You say he has no temperature or PULSE and no tenderness..Good".

    No pulse sounds pretty serious to me!!?
    haha yeah I thought the exact same

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    wonder who was in the wheelhouse at that time ??? its quick shots of the crew at the end but one was one of the twins plowman
    wick radio was going full blast for quite some time after that something else that is gone tony

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    Quote Originally Posted by brokencross View Post
    In the medico clip I am 99.9999% sure the doctor says "You say he has no temperature or PULSE and no tenderness..Good".

    No pulse sounds pretty serious to me!!?
    She did and stomach powder is not going to help.

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    great link, sad to see how wick harbor,as lost its fleet ,we would be waiting for fleet to come back in and ask for a fry,remember going home with two cod the size of my legs,think have of wick lived of fish in 1960s
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    The manager at that time was Sandy Mowat, a Keisser (brother of Jamesie who drove for Dunnets Buses and was local cooncillor). Sandy is the guy who tells Jimmy Kay - very stiltedly - to pass the information about the Bluebell to the Coastguard. As I remember the skipper of the Bluebell was George Mackintosh from Portskerra.

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