1978 Year Two

• Patient Record Request Form

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  An early request form. Over the years there had been many versions of this form.

  At this point in time Radio Heatherwood was paying £30 for 900, which would last about 5 months.

Archive Gems

Just some extra's we found:-

• Request Collecting

  In the early days there was no regulation on the amount of requests taken from the wards.

  Every night would do something different, sometimes this would mean anything up to 52 requests in a night. A patient could wait up to three hours; before hearing their request as no time slots of half hour duration were given.

  It could be quite normal to arrive back at the studio and find that there were six requests for 8:45.This method continued until 1984.

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• Press Report Sunninghill

  A leading local actress recently took part in an hour long programme on Radio Heatherwood.

  Marigold Wake, who acts with Sunninghill Drama Group the Quince Players, was interviewed by fellow member Neil Newport, one of the station's disc jockeys.

  Bracknell & Ascot Times June 1978

• Press Report Radio boost

  Radio Heatherwood, the hospital station, have begun membership 100-up Club.drive for their Subscription to the club is £1 a month.

  Half the money put up by members is used to buy new equipment and improve the service given to the patients while the other half forms the prize money in a monthly draw held for members only.

  The club hope to see an increase in membership so they will be able to offer more than one prize a month. Anyone interested should contact the radio station at Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot.

  Ascot & Bracknell & Wokingham Times 01/09/1978

• Record Appeal

  Radio Heatherwood, the Ascot hospital station, has put out an urgent call for records of all kinds.

  The volunteers who man the station say they can use anything LPs or singles, classical music or pop. Records they get twice can be swopped with other hospital radios.

  People with records to donate should ring the station on Ascot 25818 during broad- casting hours - 7pm to 10pm Monday to Friday, 2pm-10pm Saturday and 6pm-10pm Sunday.

  Ascot & Bracknell & Wokingham Times
  10/08/1978 & 17/08/1978

• Press Report Ascot

  A generous response to Radio Heatherwood's appeal for records for their hospital broadcasts has boosted stocks considerably.

  Organisers of the hospital station say the public reacted very kindly to the appeal.
  They received all sorts of records, including plenty of classical music and a few 78s which have pleased a lot of the older patients

  Records which the library already owned were swapped at a specialist shop in Chiswick for other discs, adding yet more recordings to the collection.

  Local people with old records they do not want are asked to carry on donating them to the radio station. Enabling them to extend its varied service still further.

  People with records to donate should ring the station on Ascot 25818 during broad- casting hours - 7pm to 10pm Monday to Friday, 2pm-10pm Saturday and 6pm-10pm Sunday.

  Wokingham Times 19/10/1978

Archive Gems

Just some extra's we found:-

• Colin Dormer Writes:-

  How great it was to discover the web site and see that the station goes from strength to strength. The history pages brought the memories back of my time over 30 years ago.

  I believe I was a member of the station from 1977/78 to 1980/81.

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• Charity Football Match

  One memory is of a charity three legged football match with Dave Prowse in full Darth Vader regalia.

  Further to my email earlier in the year I have discovered a photo from the three legged football match which might be of interest. I previously said I was paired with Steve Brown but he is third from left in the picture.

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  My partner is obscured so does anyone have any ideas? Also as Steve was an usher my wedding and we lost touch years ago it would be interesting to get back in touch. Does anyone one know of his whereabouts?

  For some reason the date has stuck in my mind as 16th April 1978.

  Best wishes Colin Feb 2010

• Press Report Charity Soccer Match

  Ascot's Round Table and Radio Heatherwood's League of Friends are running a three-legged football match on Sunday.

  Kick-off is at 3pm and the match will take place at the Ascot United Football Club pitch at car park 10 of the racecourse.

  Radio and television coverage is expected and there will be celebrities among the crowd.

  Bracknell & Ascot Times April 1978

• Skirts Not Fair on The Referee

  When disc jockeys from Ascot's Heatherwood Hospital radio station challenged Ascot Round Tablers to a football match the game which followed would have been very much frowned upon by the Football Association.

  For a start instead of the regulation 22 players, 56 men and women were on the pitch chasing the ball on Sunday.
  To make matters worse for professional referee John Windmill, of Bracknell, it was hard to distinguish who was playing for which team because of the variety of costumes.
  Some men were dressed as women including Round Table chairman Nigel Ruff in a red skirt and jumper and black riding hat and one of the hefty goalkeepers in flowered hat carrying a parasol.
  To impede the players even further each one was strapped to another to turn the whole thing in a hilarious three-legged game.

  Some pairs coped admirably despite disparity in leg lengths while other couldn't run without tumbling over. 'Great fun'
  The players included actor David Prowse from the film "Star Wars" and the game was kicked off by another "personality" Stewart Tosh, the drummer from the 10cc pop group.
  Mr Prowse did not wear fancy dress. He turned out in a royal blue track suit.
  After 25 minutes play each way the game ended in a draw of two goals all.
  "It was all great fun and I hope it will become an annual event," said Heatherwood disc jockey Peter Crosland, who had organised the whole affair.

  Evening Post 18/04/1978