Radio Collection

Pirate Radio ship, Radio Caroline, Essex coast
The 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 1935
Spread 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 Radio
DANNY KAYE American entertainer of stage, screen and television Date: 1913 -

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

Archie Andrews, Peter Brough and Vera Lynn
Forces Sweetheart Vera Lynn at the BBC, recording with Peter Brough and famous ventriloquist dummy, Archie Andrews, 1944

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - still from the Radio Picture Ltd production Shall We Dance?

Alexandra Palace, the home of the B. B. C. The large transmitt
Alexandra 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 London
Police officers on the radio in the street in London. Metropolitan Police

Bonzo adds a fifth to the quartet
Bonzo, listening to music on the radio, adds a fifth to the quartet, and starts to howl. Date: 1923

Radio Station Tower at Tuckerton, NJ
Radio Station Tower at Tuckerton, New Jersey - 850 feet high Date: circa 1920s

Metropolitan Police walkie talkie radio
A Metropolitan Police walkie talkie radio

W. Heath Robinson
Cartoon, 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"

ROBERTS R RADIO 1970S
A trendy Roberts R portable radio

Hat Wireless 1930S
A man tunes into his hat radio!

The Evening Wireless - Komarjan Bridge, WW1
The Surrey Yeomanry on the Struma Valley Front, Salonika 1917-1918. The Evening Wireless - Komarjan Bridge. By Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945). 1917-1918

Police Car Chase 1991
Police officers driving a police car during a car chase, on the radio and wearing seatbelts. Metropolitan Police on an emergency call

Lovell Telescope
The 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

1957 nuclear test: Fall-out
Fallout: The sinister and prolonged after-effect of nuclear explosions

England / Lyme Regis
A glimpse of Lyme Regis High Street, Dorset, England, showing a young man on a bicycle outside Cox & Humphries radio shop and the church in the background

Vacuuming a Wireless
Frequent cleaning of a wireless set (radio) can easily be done with use of the spare parts of a Hoover vacuum cleaner

Largest Wireless Valve
The worlds largest wireless valve, being made in a factory in Germany

Marconi Transmitter
Marconi transmitting apparatus

Mrs Giles Borrett, first female BBC radio announcer
Mrs Giles Borrett (her stage name as an actress was Sheila Stewart), first female BBC radio announcer

Percival Proctor -a militarised Vega Gull, the type first flew in October 1939 and was the standard RAF communications and radio trainer throughout the war

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

Queen Elizabeth II caricature
Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926), pictured in caricature about to give her a speech over the radio. Date: 1986

France. Paris. Notre Dame. Rose window

Handley Page Halifax VI RG815 Mercury of the RAF
Handley 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

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

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

A Stuart Hibberd. Chief BBC radio announcer until 1951. Date: circa 1938

Princess Elizabeth first broadcast, 1940
Princess 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

Radio presenter with giant snail
Radio presenter comes face to face with a giant snail -- a surprise guest on his show. Date: circa 1970s

WW2 - British Majorcoats and Khassadars at Chitral
WW2 - 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, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing four patients in dressing gowns and pyjamas chatting in a hospital ward

Traffic Accident Group
A Metropolitan Police Traffic Accident Group, consisting of two Triumph motorcycles and one Wolseley 6/110 motor car, fitted with radio transmitter and loudspeaker

Police Officer in Radio
Police officer on walkie talkie in London. Metropolitan Police

Police on Walkie Talkie
Police officers talking on a walkie talkie in the street at Notting Hill Underground Station, London Metropolitan Police

Communications Room on an Atlantic liner
A communications room onboard an Atlantic liner, an example of the kind that would have been on board the Titanic

Orson Welles / Rko Radio
ORSON WELLES American film actor, producer and director

Fairies Dance in Woods with Faun on Gramophone
Upto-date fairies dance to the music of the radio Date: 1925

Futuristic news broadcast
A futuristic news broadcast, where a couple relax in their sitting room and listen to the days news from a gramophone-like machine

Princess Elizabeth broadcasting to the Empire
Princess 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

Villagers Gathered Around the Wireless
Villagers in Charlwood, Sussex, gathered around the wireless radio in a local pub. 1940

Police radio operators

London / Portland Place
BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London, also known as The Hub of Truth

Communications / Radio
The Wireless Telegraphy room of an Atlantic liner

Valves Used Between London and New York 1927
One of the great valves in which speech was passed by radio between London and New York, America

Comic postcard, Dog listening to the radio, in a parody of the HMV logo. Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, Courting couple with radio playing Date: 20th century

A man been lowered by crain into a bath of hundreds of gallon of radio-active water, for treatment for diseases such as tuberculosis, in Bath, Somerset

View of Chicago with air pollution, looking north (from Stevens Hotel roof), Illinois, USA, showing Blackstone Hotel rooftop. Date: circa 1935

First transatlantic radio broadcast. How the Pittsburg (U.S.A.) concert was re-broadcasted to British listeners in one operation. Date: December 1923

Virginia Grey, American actress in films, TV and radio Date: 1939

A typical living room or front reception room, with a picture rail, tapestry firescreen, Bakelite radio, display cabinet and three piece suit. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Marconiphone radio cinema advertisement, probably 1930s Date: circa 1930s

Redifon Airport Radio Equipment - G91 Beacon - Redifon Ltd. Date: 1952

Redifon Airport Radio Equipment - Teleprinter - Redifon Ltd. Date: 1952

Airadio Super 52 Radio - Air Associates Inc. Date: 1947

Arthur Richard Burrows, BBC broadcaster
Arthur Richard Burrows (1882-1947), BBC broadcaster and journalist, known affectionately as Uncle Arthur. 1922

de Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee / Tiger Moth UAV
An Un-Manned de Havilland Dh-82B Queen Bee Uav Taking-Off from a Compressed-Air Catapult System and is Controlled by Wireless Radio Signals in 1935 Date: 1935

Headsone of German Jewish soldier Max Seller, Belgium
The burial is in the CWGC Cemetery, Hyde Park Corner. In this same cemetery is the grave of Private Albert Edward French, a 16 years old who was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary in 1983

Advert, Atwater Kent Model 30 Radio. 1926

Elisabeth Welch sings Charleston in Runnin Wild at the Colonial Theatre (New York). Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) African American singer & actress who settled in London in 1933

Christmas 1952 by Harold White
A 1950s family sit around the fire at Christmas time listening to a wireless broadcast Streamers and paper chains hang from the ceiling and a rather mean looking Christmas tree stands in the corner

Photograph showing Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945), the Italian dictator, testing a radio set during the Italian Army manoevres of August 1936

RADIO / WW2 GERMAN ARMY
German army with field radio in operation Date: 1940

Comic postcard, Man listening to sport on the radio Date: 20th century

Boeing WC-135B 61-2667
United States Air Force - Boeing WC-135B 61-2667 (MSN 18343)

Lockheed EC-130E-LM Hercules 63-7773
United States Air Force (USAF) - Lockheed EC-130E-LM Hercules Rivet Rider 63-7773 (msn 382-3839), of the 193rd Special Operations Squadron, at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire on 23 July 1995

The Radio Show, Olympia, London, early 1960s Date: 1960s

BBC Broadcasting House, London early 1900s

How to get better Radio - Mullard Radios and Valves catalogue cover 1929-30 Date: circa 1930

His Masters Voice radio and gramaphone retailer in Newark - delivery van Date: circa 1920s

RMS Titanic, Harold Cottam Collection photograh
RMS. TITANIC. THE HAROLD COTTAM COLLECTION

RMS Titanic, Harold Cottam Collection, Marconi envelope
RMS TITANIC. THE HAROLD COTTOM COLLECTION: A red Marconi gram envelope on which Harold has written his name and address. Harold Thos Cottam, The Stone yard, Church Street, Southwell, England

RMS Titanic Harold Cottam Collection, photograph
RMS TITANIC THE HAROLD COTTAM COLLECTION: An exceptional formal portrait of Harold in his Marconi uniform, signed in pencil on reverse HT Cottam. 5.5ins x 7.5ins

RMS Titanic, Harold Cottam Collection gold pocket watch)
RMS TITANIC. THE HAROLD COTTAM COLLECTION: Hallmarked 9ct Gold Waltham gentleman's hunter pocket watch engraved Presented to Mr. Harold T

RMS Olympic, radio-controlled model boat
RMS OLYMPIC: Radio-controlled model boat. Lovingly crafted from original panelling from R.M.S

Wireless Whist playing cards scorecard, Art Deco design

Six-Sixty Safety Valves, wireless radio 1920s Date: 1920s

Klondyke Whist scorecard, black cat wearing wireless radio headphones

Motorcycle motorbike wit radio receiver (I think)

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