Seventy Five Years On Air
75 for 75
A series of 75 articles with photographs capturing aspects of our rich history since 9th April 1951 when we began as an activity at Port Sunlight Boys’ Club.
Read all about the station’s rich history.
75 for 75 series 61 to 75
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To mark the 50th Anniversary of the National Health Service in 1998, Radio Clatterbridge was on hand to broadcast in a tent on the Arrowe Park site.
Members Dave Harvey, Andy Bonner, Paul Johnston and Terri Britt manned the stand. Dave Harvey was snapped with the Viscount himself and Philip Owen (Chairman of Clatterbridge Hospitals League of Friends).
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Our ward visitors have issued loan patient and staff radios from Clatterbridge Hospitals League of Friends (now Friends of Clatterbridge) since 2011. They are tuned in to 1386AM by our Station Engineer, Ron Berkeley.
Since 2025, we have also had our very own free App downloadable from Google Store and Apple Play. It has its own Catch Up feature.
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We marked our 60th birthday in 2011 with a series of broadcasts over the Anniversary weekend. Special guest was co-founder Monty Lister who recalled the time that Cliff Richard ended up at his house listening to records after he had taken the young singer to visit patients! Several interviews were re-broadcast from our Archive over the weekend, dating back as far as 1954. In the second photo, Roger Hazlewood, Dave Wilson and Dave Williams reminisce.
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The first picture marks the end of an 84-hour sponsored broadcast 4th-7th May 1990 showing Ali Woods, Sue Jackson, Dave Williams, Dave Wilson, Steve Wynne; with Neil Southerin seated.
In April 2026 Mal Vaughan, Nathan Gould and Heather Smith were just 3 of the presenters past and present who participated in our epic 75-hour live birthday broadcast.
However, our longest broadcast appears to have been a 100-hour sponsored broadcast 26th-30th May 1988, to raise cash for a new mixing desk. A competition in the Wirral Globe offered the chance to win a box of groceries for anyone who could predict the number of records to be played!
