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.
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
Take a hundred lines:- "The word is INFRACTION not INFARTION"
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.
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.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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some times in life its not what you know its who you know
Many thanks for that - Great Stuff !! I remember the boats mentioned.
Trinkie
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!
Enjoyed watching this.
Thanks for posting that link, brokencross.
Fascinating stuff -and brought back some great memories!
Here's some more:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=_gy_A2mI_Sg
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!
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
i have decided i must be getting old, as i found that interesting lol.
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe
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!!?
Take a hundred lines:- "The word is INFRACTION not INFARTION"
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
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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