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Alan Pennington

@alpendx

Lancashire lad, now in the Thames Valley #Reading #radio #dxer #realale #LFC #environment #trees

United Kingdom Katılım Eylül 2010
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Alan Pennington
Alan Pennington@alpendx·
@SimoninSuffolk Don't *actually* remember the 1976 Radio 210 launch with the late Paul Hollingdale (as I was still in Radio City land) but have heard a cassette recording, from when this town had a local commercial radio station... #reading
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Simon Knott
Simon Knott@SimoninSuffolk·
@alpendx Don't you just hate it when it turns out something you remember was half a century ago...
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Alan Pennington@alpendx·
50 years ago today, 8th March 1976, the new independent local radio station for Reading and the Thames Valley, Radio 210, launched on 1430 kHz, but named after its medium wave wavelength, 210 metres. #OnThisDay
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Duncan Stanworth
Duncan Stanworth@StanworthDJ·
Automated system coming soon
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Andy Walmsley
Andy Walmsley@Radiojottings·
BBC Radio Lancashire has been broadcasting for 55 years, as of tomorrow, starting as Radio Blackburn on 26 January 1971. From 2021 Graham Liver and Gerald Jackson tell the story of the first half century youtu.be/D2Pwd9vHnfo
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The Man in Seat 61
The Man in Seat 61@seatsixtyone·
@NLFerries Scottish cooked breakfast time on the Inverness-London Caledonian Sleeper. Now approaching our Birmingham International stop…
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The Man in Seat 61@seatsixtyone·
JELLICOE EXPRESS! Orkney to London in under 24h: My morning ferry cancelled, a retimed afternoon ferry to Scrabster is due to sail at 14:00. Slightly iffy plans in place to reach Inverness just in time for tonight’s @CalSleeper, arriving London tomorrow morning. Will I make it?
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Alan Pennington
Alan Pennington@alpendx·
RTVE news report on closure of many of the Radio Nacional de Espana medium wave transmitters in Spain in the early hours this morning (30 December).
RTVE Castilla-La Mancha@RTVEclm

📻Esta madrugada, las emisiones de @rne y @radio5_rne a través de la Onda Media, se apagan tras casi 90 años en marcha ➡️Con ello, las señales de FM y DAB+ van a reforzarse en los próximos años 🫤 Algunos radioaficionados ven esta noticia con recelo 🎙️@CosmeVizcaino

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Simon Knott
Simon Knott@SimoninSuffolk·
Day 21: 'Billingsgate Fish Market' I think this is my favourite of Donald Macleish's 'Wonderful London' series, there's so much going on. The scene is Lower Thames Street. The Monument to the Great Fire to the right, the tower of St Magnus Martyr on the left. There were porters here doing this job at the time of the Great Fire. 'O City City, I can sometimes hear Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, The pleasant whining of a mandoline And a clatter and a chatter from within Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls Of Magnus Martyr hold Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.' - TS Eliot, 'The Waste Land', 1922 The building on the extreme right is today the Walrus & Carpenter pub. Was it a pub in Eliot's time? Billingsgate Fish Market moved to the Isle of Dogs in 1982. An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day21
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Simon Knott@SimoninSuffolk·
Day 20: 'the many-headed voice which roars behind the touchline every winter Saturday' The crowd at Stamford Bridge, probably the FA Cup Final, played there 1920 to 1922 and which Macleish photographed. An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day20
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Duncan Stanworth
Duncan Stanworth@StanworthDJ·
If I lived here, I'd live here
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Southport Football Club
Southport Football Club@southport_fc·
65' A stoppage here as the referee calls both Managers over. The game may be in jeoprady here due to the conditions. 🟡 2-1 🟣
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Alan Pennington
Alan Pennington@alpendx·
@SimoninSuffolk @ChrisGreenwayUK Thanks, great video! And station still called Clyde despite Bauer (Hits/Greatest Hits) ownership! 50th birthday was marked on back page of BDXC 'Communication' in December 2023:
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Clyde 1
Clyde 1@1025Clyde1·
Clyde 1 is turning 50 & to celebrate here's a look back at some special moments from the first 50 years 😍 bit.ly/Clyde1is50
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Met Office
Met Office@metoffice·
Noticed a hazier sky today? It’s not just high cloud drifting in from the west - smoke from Canadian wildfires has travelled thousands of miles and is now affecting skies across Europe 🛰️ A striking reminder of how interconnected our atmosphere is.
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Caroline Lucas
Caroline Lucas@CarolineLucas·
The idea that humans will always act rationally, that technology will always work perfectly and that miscalculations will always be avoided is one hell of an assumption….yet that flimsy & flawed notion underpins the whole argument of nuclear deterrence
Independent Voices@IndyVoices

Why is Britain commemorating Hiroshima’s 80th anniversary by investing in new nuclear weapons? | Caroline Lucas (@carolinelucas) 👇This story is currently free to read 👇 independent.co.uk/voices/hiroshi…

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Radio Mi Amigo LV18
Radio Mi Amigo LV18@LV18MiAmigo·
Tune in if you are in the vicinity of LV18 in Harwich - vinyl music from the 60's and 70's. Live from a radio ship on Medium Wave - just like it used to be! 1575 kHz / 190 metres!!
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