Pirate Radio ship, Radio Caroline, Essex coastThe pirate radio ship, Radio Caroline, anchored off the Essex coast near Walton-on-the-Naze, with a boat alongside. circa 1966
Pirate Radio ship, Radio London, Essex coast
BBC 1935Spread from Radio Pictorial Annual showing the British Broadcasting Centre including the interior with the vaudeville studio, the gramaphone effects studio, concert hall, council chamber
Danny Kaye / Rko RadioDANNY KAYE American entertainer of stage, screen and television Date: 1913 -
Archie Andrews, Peter Brough and Vera LynnForces Sweetheart Vera Lynn at the BBC, recording with Peter Brough and famous ventriloquist dummy, Archie Andrews, 1944. Lynn had only just returned from a tour of India
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - still from the Radio Picture Ltd production Shall We Dance?
W. Heath RobinsonCartoon, Heath Robinsons Broadcast Drawing. My Wireless Set showing an old radio. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evan"
Alexandra Palace, the home of the B. B. C. The large transmittAlexandra Palace as the home of the B.B.C television service in 1936 showing the mast and transmitting aerials for vision and sound
Police in LondonPolice officers on the radio in the street in London. Metropolitan Police
Bonzo adds a fifth to the quartetBonzo, listening to music on the radio, adds a fifth to the quartet, and starts to howl. Date: 1923
Metropolitan Police walkie talkie radioA Metropolitan Police walkie talkie radio
ROBERTS R RADIO 1970SA trendy Roberts R portable radio
The Evening Wireless - Komarjan Bridge, WW1The Surrey Yeomanry on the Struma Valley Front, Salonika 1917-1918. The Evening Wireless - Komarjan Bridge. By Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945). 1917-1918
Lovell TelescopeThe brainchild of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Lovell Radio Telescope was for many years the largest in the world and dominates the Cheshire countryside for miles around. Date: 1960s
Police Car Chase 1991Police officers driving a police car during a car chase, on the radio and wearing seatbelts. Metropolitan Police on an emergency call
Radio Station Tower at Tuckerton, NJRadio Station Tower at Tuckerton, New Jersey - 850 feet high Date: circa 1920s
1957 nuclear test: Fall-outFallout: The sinister and prolonged after-effect of nuclear explosions: a drawing illustrating some characteristics of this haunting phenomenon.An illustration by special Illustrated London News
Hat Wireless 1930SA man tunes into his hat radio!
Marconi TransmitterMarconi transmitting apparatus
Vacuuming a WirelessFrequent cleaning of a wireless set (radio) can easily be done with use of the spare parts of a Hoover vacuum cleaner
Largest Wireless ValveThe worlds largest wireless valve, being made in a factory in Germany
France. Paris. Notre Dame. Rose window
Woman police officer attending an accident where a man appears to have fallen off a ladder. She is speaking into her hand-held radio. Date: circa 1970s
Handley Page Halifax VI RG815 Mercury of the RAFHandley Page Halifax VI, RG815, Mercury of the RAF Empire Radio School, Debden, prior to its 25, 000-mile tour of Palestine, Iraq, India, Burma, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand in 1946
Queen Elizabeth II caricatureQueen Elizabeth II (b. 1926), pictured in caricature about to give her a speech over the radio. Date: 1986
Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) African American singer & actress who settled in London in 1933. Popular star of British musical theatre, films, television & radio from the 1930s to the 1990s. Date: 1935
Mrs Giles Borrett, first female BBC radio announcerMrs Giles Borrett (her stage name as an actress was Sheila Stewart), first female BBC radio announcer. She had a three-month trial, and received good notices, but her contract was terminated
A Stuart Hibberd. Chief BBC radio announcer until 1951. Date: circa 1938
WW2 - Surcouf Submarine of the Free French Navy. The largest submarine ever built until surpassed by the first Japanese I-400-class submarine in 1943
Princess Elizabeth first broadcast, 1940Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) making her first radio broadcast on 11 October 1940 to British children evacuated abroad to the United States and Canada. Date: 1940
Traffic Accident GroupA Metropolitan Police Traffic Accident Group, consisting of two Triumph motorcycles and one Wolseley 6/110 motor car, fitted with radio transmitter and loudspeaker
The Ray Ellington Quartet. Ray Ellington (1916-1985) London-born singer, drummer and bandleader best known for his appearances on radio and TV in The Goon Show from 1951 to 1960. Date: 1950s
Radio presenter with giant snailRadio presenter comes face to face with a giant snail -- a surprise guest on his show. Date: circa 1970s
WW2 - British Majorcoats and Khassadars at ChitralWW2 - British Soldiers (one on radio - far left) with Khassadars of North Waziristan, at Chitral (then Northern India, now Pakistan), close to the border with Afghanistan. Date: circa 1940
Four patients at the Medical Centre, HendonScene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing four patients in dressing gowns and pyjamas chatting in a hospital ward
Police on Walkie TalkiePolice officers talking on a walkie talkie in the street at Notting Hill Underground Station, London Metropolitan Police
Communications Room on an Atlantic linerA communications room onboard an Atlantic liner, an example of the kind that would have been on board the Titanic. Built by the shipyard Harland and Wolff for White Star Lines
Orson Welles / Rko RadioORSON WELLES American film actor, producer and director
Fairies Dance in Woods with Faun on GramophoneUpto-date fairies dance to the music of the radio Date: 1925
Futuristic news broadcastA futuristic news broadcast, where a couple relax in their sitting room and listen to the days news from a gramophone-like machine
Villagers Gathered Around the WirelessVillagers in Charlwood, Sussex, gathered around the wireless radio in a local pub. 1940
Princess Elizabeth broadcasting to the EmpirePrincess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) at a BBC microphone making her 21st birthday broadcast to the Empire during the Royal Tour of South Africa on 21st April 1947. Date: 1947
Police radio operators
Police Officer in RadioPolice officer on walkie talkie in London. Metropolitan Police
London / Portland PlaceBBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London, also known as The Hub of Truth
Communications / RadioThe Wireless Telegraphy room of an Atlantic liner
Arthur Richard Burrows, BBC broadcasterArthur Richard Burrows (1882-1947), BBC broadcaster and journalist, known affectionately as Uncle Arthur. 1922
The Radio Show, Olympia, London, early 1960s Date: 1960s
