Oh, I wish! I would have been delighted to share them. Unfortunately, I lost them after moving apartments many times in the mid 70s.
My best friend, Peter, did take photos. Unfortunately he died in 2001 and his widow had a clear-out when she remarried a few years ago. She gave me many boxes of his radio diaries, Offshore radio press cuttings and old radio magazines and books. I’ve just spent the last hour or so looking through the boxes.
I have found his 73 diary that tells me we made the trip from Harwich to Hook on Monday 3rd Sept. I think it would have been a noon crossing because I can remember picking Peter up from his house in the middle of the night and my Ford Cortina had a tyre blowout on the M6 motorway about 2:30am going south, fortunately no other damage. Peter notes Veronica’s reception on the ferry at the English end on 538 was very strong but was suffering interference from the test tones of the new IBA transmitter (of Capital Radio).
The following day Sept 4 we took a trip from Scheveningen on the Dolfijn to see the ships. Conditions were not good and it was very overcast - I have found some photos he took of the 3 ships Caroline, RNI and Veronica from the tour boat, but he didn’t have a zoom lens so they are not that good. There are also some postcards of the ships including two of the Norderney when she ran aground!
On Thursday 6th September he reports us visiting the Veronica studios on Utrechtseweg. We sat in while Stan Haag and Ruud Westbroek recorded Stan’s 11-12 show for 13th September! An engineer spoke to us but I don’t know whether it was Ruud. I’m sure Peter took photos of the studios but they aren’t in box I’ve just looked through.
Happy days!!
gr.
Alan
