Ach wat ik heb en wat ik weet valt best wel mee Joop. En wat ik niet weet, dat zoek ik op!
Zo simpel is het dus eigenlijk.
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The Radio Caroline North 40th Anniversary Convention.
Isle of Man, 19th - 21st September 2008.
Forty years after Radio Caroline North was silenced, a convention was held on the Isle of Man to celebrate the achievements of this hugely successful but sometimes ignored, station. As many of the delegates pointed out, the media - mainly based in the south-east of England - have usually preferred to focus on Caroline South. But the story of the northern sister station is every bit as fascinating.
The delegates began to arrive on the island by ferry and plane during Friday and most of them gathered for dinner that evening at a restaurant in Douglas.
The next morning it was an early start to catch the coach to Peel to see the excellent Pirates Of The Irish Sea exhibition at the House of Manannan.
This free exhibition was originally planned to close in February but was so successful that its run was extended until the end of August 2009. Other museums have also expressed an interest in taking it so it is possible that it will move elsewhere later.
Among the former Caroline personnel visiting the exhibition on the Saturday morning were newsreaders John Aston and Nick Bailey, disc-jockeys Martin Kayne, Alan Turner and Wally Meehan, engineer Trevor Grantham and station founder Ronan O'Rahilly.
The bell of the Fredericia, used in the famous ‘ding ding’ Caroline call-sign, loaned to the exhibition by the family of Harry Maddrell, skipper of the tender Essex Girl.
A model of the Radio Caroline North ship, mv Fredericia
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Groets,
Mariner
