Remembering Radio SKEBA.

This last weekend some of our team paid a visit to Seacroft Hospital to collect some albums,still there in the studio since the radio service closed down two years ago and joined-up with members of Radio Allerton at their station.

It was quite strange going back there,after almost 30 years and finding some things were just the same now as they were then.It was also a little sad,seeing the place void of both broadcast equipment and the 'buz' of the usual dj 'banter'.

I started there in September 1978 in a small cabin,but in early 1979 we moved into what was a part of the old nurses's home.I stayed there until 1983-84,when I left to begin my own radio service-Radio Poplar!I guess the 'golden years' for me were between 1981-82,when with a radio station full of presenters and request collectors we would have a great laugh and share all the usual dj banter with our patients both at Seacroft and over York Road,Killingbeck Hospital.
But best of all,I took recordings of my Sunday morning programmes(1981-2)and plan to re-broadcast them on Poplar in the near future .