From the Film "The Boat that Rocked", celebrating the 1960s Pirate DJs who launched Radio Pop Music.
The broadcasts were from ships anchored off shore, outside territorial waters. Despite being raided by the police, having their supplies of food and water cut off, and being generally outside the law. The public demand for Pop Music was so great that eventually the BBC had to compete by setting up it's own Pop Station, which became the birth of BBC Radio One, some of the Pirate DJs were given legal work on this station. The Lightship LV 18 was used in the filming of “The Boat That Rocked”
My Pictures were taken at the Ha’penny Pier Harwich Essex.

BBC Radio Essex is broadcasting over the Easter Weekend 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/local_radio/pirate_bbc_essex/

Copies of Old Photographs are from the LV 18 Exhibition
http://www.lv18.co.uk/

In fact the exhibitions is owned by Pirate Memories, a website dedicated to 60's & 70's offshore radio.
see: www.piratememories.com