Paddy Roy Bates – Radio Essex |

Paddy Roy Bates – Radio Essex

Years of involvement: 1967-1968 Roy Bates

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.

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Some years later and by pure chance Steve and Roy met again at a Café opposite Westcliff sea front, they were both surprised to learn that they were now living within a few minutes walk of each others home and occasionally used the same café talk about Deja vu !

This time Roy was more interested in Steve’s Formula One design career than the old radio days. Hi

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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!