Radio Sutch & City - Part 13

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Radio Engineer Mike Bass on a visit by the Generator Switch Board (1969)

The one & a half ton 3 cylinder Lister JP3 Diesel Generator (1969)

Generator AC Converter (1969)

Left side of Transmitter Room on Southern Gun Tower 1 (1969)

Right side of Transmitter Room (1969)

Record library in the Control Tower (1969)

Studio A (1969)

A new studio was built on the Control Tower leaving the Southern Gun Tower (1) for Generation Plant & Transmitters

The original Studio had been on the Southern Gun Tower 1 at Intermediate Level, the Officers Recreation Room

Whilst the Door is hand painted Studio A there was only one Radio City studio, which other than a desk built by Phil Perkins utilised much of the old studio kit

Long lost here he is Chris Cross an early Radio Sutch & City DJ with with his son Richard left & wife Jenny (2009)

Jenny in 1964/65 was girlfriend of Chris & often mentioned on-air, she was to join Chris on the Fort as they ran the station alone over Christmas 1965

The spool of tape from which the above audio was taken (1965)

The Fort stations all used the cheap grade tape available, Gees, Lafayette being amongst the most common

Religious and tapes sent to the Anti-City Show by listeners were also used

Then a shot out of the blue ...

04/10/09 - Hi Bob, I'm still alive, living and working as a valuation surveyor in Malawi. A far cry from being a pirate DJ. Just been surfing the internet and found this opportunity to get in touch. I am at present in UK. Would love to hear from you or any of the old team. Chris Cross

Chris Cross with his daughter Kate on holiday in Spain (2009)

Chris began training as a surveyor soon up after leaving Radio City in 1966 he's been in Malawi for nearly 30 years working independently since 1992 as property valuation surveyor for the Malawi Government

Alan Clark one of the last Radio City DJ's during his time at Southern Television (1987)

For a brief history of all the Thames Estuary Forts see Fort Fax