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These pages are devoted to special memories of Big L in the Sixties.
If you have a particular memory of something that happened while listening to Radio London, or have unearthed some rare memorabilia, please click on the button, right, and let us know!

Feature from Dutch pop magazine Tuney Tunes, May 1966 (Click on the pages to see larger versions).

(Top photo, right) l to r, Dave Cash, Mark Roman, John Edward, with Earl Richmond at the back. Bottom photo, Dave Dennis and Earl Richmond (minus his glasses) in the studio.

If any of our Dutch-speaking visitors would care to translate the interview, we'd be very pleased to be able to include an English version.

Clipping courtesy of Bert Bossink

Daily Mail
May 26th 1967

It was hoped that a collaboration with Radio Andorra would prove the salvation of Radio London, but this was not to be.

Clipping from the Francis Pullen Collection

Journalist Donald Currie describes his opportunity to visit the Galaxy as "the thrill of a lifetime". Below is the Radio London schedule the magazine published for the week June 1st to 7th 1967 – with an interesting spelling of John Peel's name on Sunday. Clippings courtesy of Raoul Verolleman


Hans Knot says:

This is from the Television Mail April 15, 1965. In it, there are a lot of 'Appointments' 'New Campaigns', 'New transmitters' but also New on London.
It's all about new advertisers who were highlighted in the Television Mail. So we have radio promotion in a TV magazine for our beloved Big L.

Webmaster's note:
Trading stamps were popular during the Sixties and were the equivalent of today's 'store loyalty points'. Customers at the shops and garages that were participating in a particular scheme, would be given so many stamps per shilling spent. (Usually two, if I remember rightly) Shoppers would be tempted by special offers of 'double stamps' on selected goods. Supermarkets were the growing trend and they gladly enlisted trading stamps in their battles to attract customers. (Lord Sainsbury, however, disapproved of the practice of giving stamps as incentives)*. The two main brands were Green Shield and the S & H (Sperry & Hutchinson) Pink, which used the slogan, "Save as you spend".

Trading stamps had to be glued into books and they were not self-adhesive. The completed books were exchangeable for gifts, although sometimes half-and quarter-completed books were acceptable. The job took a lot of licking and was often given to the children of the family as a 'pocket-money earner'. After a stamp-sticking session, your mouth tasted foul! It would be interesting to know if the winners of Radio London's S & H Pink Stamps prizes, would have been expected to stick all 50, 000 of them into books themselves!

* See the retrowow website, for everything you ever wanted to know about Green Shield Stamps! There's not much information available about Pink Stamps, but there's a photo of them here.

Many thanks to Hans.

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