Paddy Roy Bates – Radio Essex
Years of involvement: 1967-1968 |
| Home Location: Westcliff-on-Sea |
| Types of involvement: Information & On-Air reports. |
| Comment / History:- |
| When Radio Kaleidoscope was first launched by Steve T in 1967.
Steve & Nigel went to visit Roy Bates and his wife Joan at their family home/flat just off Avenue Road, Westcliff-on-sea Roy welcomed them with refreshments and some pointers on how to run a successful covert Radio station. On other occasions Roy used the GPO Call-box telephone number broadcast by the Radio Kaleidoscope team to provide the station with signal and quality reports. Roy was always very critical! Like so many other people. Steve was later awarded a certified title to “The Principality of Sealand” but somehow “Sir Jolly Orange” did not have quite the same ring to it!  Radio Essex – Sunday Mail – 1966 (Courtesy Ron Prosser)  Sealand in 2007 CREDIT: REX FEATURES
 Joan & Roy Bates – (Courtesy The Telegraph)  Press Article
 Rough Towers Radio Essex – Late 60’s – FRC Magazine
 FRC Rough Towers article – 1970  Radio Essex Press cutting – Source Peter Blacklock – Evening Echo – 1968  Mark Wesley broadcasting from Radio Essex – Sealand 1966 (Courtesy Don Stevens)  The True story of Sealand by Dylan Taylor-Lehman
 Sealand Former Home of Radio Essex (Courtesy William Fortune)
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