Missing Local Radio Find

[stevefreestone]

I run an on-line Lincoln City museum and a few months ago was contacted to ask if I was interested in some old cassettes of recordings from the 1980s. I said of course.

What these recordings were were football reports of Lincoln City's promotion from the old Division 4 in 1981 as well as a 30 minute radio documentary, again from BBC Radio Lincolnshire that was produced in the same period. All these were lost by the station as archiving such things from 1981 wasn't really a priority.

I then contacted the station directly and after a wait, was told that I could actually run these directly on our website. I was actually interviewed about these finds a few weeks ago on the station who used some of the documentary.


On a slightly different media, I also located an old Yorkshire Television recording (that was not used) of the club's promotion game back to the football league in 1988 that apparently was lost by YTV but a copy was found elsewhere. It was apparently recorded for the football club themselves but the club no longer had a copy either.

[Stuart Monk]

Arguably of most interest to Lincoln City fans, it's still great to see recoveries - it's history!
I hope you can post the recordings and provide a link, you're right about the haphazard approach to archiving of BBC Local Radio from the 70s and 80s.
All the Best,
Stuart

[Paul Hayes]

Oct 13, 2023 11:39:36 GMT Stuart Monk said:

you're right about the haphazard approach to archiving of BBC Local Radio from the 70s and 80s.

Or ever, really. Sadly.

[garycritcher]

Funnily enough, in the 1970s I used to record the radio reports of my team's (QPR) games from LBC in London. I have since transferred them all from cassette (1973 games) and open reel (1979/80) on to CD. When I offered them all to the club about 6 years ago they said they weren't interested. I then offered them to members of a QPR page on Facebook the guys there lapped them up. I only charged them postage for the copies. These Lincoln City recordings were a good find, did you offer them to the club?

[Paul Hayes]

A few years ago during Radio Norfolk's 40th anniversary I was able to get hold of some lovely cassettes of our early football coverage from listener Alan Martin and former producer Rob Bonnet. Made for quite a nice programme, I thought:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08r1sfm

[stevefreestone]

Oct 21, 2023 13:47:58 GMT garycritcher said:

Funnily enough, in the 1970s I used to record the radio reports of my team's (QPR) games from LBC in London. I have since transferred them all from cassette (1973 games) and open reel (1979/80) on to CD. When I offered them all to the club about 6 years ago they said they weren't interested. I then offered them to members of a QPR page on Facebook the guys there lapped them up. I only charged them postage for the copies. These Lincoln City recordings were a good find, did you offer them to the club?

Because the work I do is via the Red Imps Community Trust (and is still a major shareholder in the football club) the club themselves are happy for us to do what we do. The club themselves don't have an archive as such although we as a Trust are starting to build one - even big games that the club was involved in in the past the club no longer have copies and some finds I've made are donated back to the club indirectly this way.

For me what was important was signifying to the BBC about this find and it was absolutely wonderful that they let me run it on my platform, fully credited to them.

[stevefreestone]

Oct 13, 2023 11:39:36 GMT Stuart Monk said:

Arguably of most interest to Lincoln City fans, it's still great to see recoveries - it's history!
I hope you can post the recordings and provide a link, you're right about the haphazard approach to archiving of BBC Local Radio from the 70s and 80s.
All the Best,
Stuart

Question for Mods, am I ok to put the link here?