Making music for South Tyneside's hospitals

The current state of the NHS is a real talking point.
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Feb 2018, 08:44 BST
Updated 2nd Feb 2018, 08:46 BST
DJ Eleanor Minikin and sports programme presenter Paul Keenan in the new studio at Radio Ingham.DJ Eleanor Minikin and sports programme presenter Paul Keenan in the new studio at Radio Ingham.
DJ Eleanor Minikin and sports programme presenter Paul Keenan in the new studio at Radio Ingham.

And there was plenty of talking being done when the Gazette paid a number of hospital visits back in the 1960s and ’70s.

For they caught DJs and radio presenters broadcasting to patients at the Ingham Infirmary, in South Shields, as well as other local hospitals.

Three young DJs who were broadcasting on Radio TH throughout 1969 and the year before.Three young DJs who were broadcasting on Radio TH throughout 1969 and the year before.
Three young DJs who were broadcasting on Radio TH throughout 1969 and the year before.
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One of them, DJ Phil Grainger, said at the time: “We never talked about ourselves on the air so nobody really knows who are.”

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Also pictured at the Ingham Infirmary in 1962 was one of the hospital’s “new £8,000” x-ray machines.

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