Another Fabulous Solid Gold Sunday Coming Up Tomorrow!

Sick and tired of the same old quasi-national corporate radio stations that aren’t even based in your area anymore, let alone your town? You know, the same ones that play the same hundred songs over and over and over again from one specific genre when you have a large, healthy musical taste? 

Well, don't forget to tune in to the next Solid Gold Sunday today between 2pm and 6pm GMT/1400h and 1800h UTC on 102.4 Radio Hartlepool with myself. We have four hours of pure Gold and Nostalgia for you from the mid-1950s, right up to the end of the twentieth century.

We guarantee you won’t find a less boring playlist on the dial or on the internet!

Listening is as easy as ABC: in Hartlepool and East Durham, tune in on 102.4MHz FM stereo, or worldwide listen by the stations LIVE webstream at www.radiohartlepool.co.uk.

Music on our next programme includes Beatles, Dead or Alive, Erasure, Annie Lennox, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Cliff Richard, Louise, David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Whitney Houston, Walker Brothers, Everything But The Girl, Hollies, Cher, Simon and Garfunkel and much, much more!

We've got our Astronomy Skylights feature at 2.20pm BST/1320h UTC checking out our local star, The Sun, and we’re taking some time out with our Days Out segment at the National Railway Museum, York at 3.20pm BST/1420h UTC.

With news bulletins from the Sky News Centre at 3pm, 4pm, 5pm BST/1400h, 1500h, 1600h UTC, plus weather forecasts, join me for a real Solid Gold Sunday at 2pm BST/1300h UTC.

Listen worldwide at

www.radiohartlepool.co.uk

Solid Gold Sunday

Presenter: ANDY FLEMING

Producer: LEE THEASBY

Coming Up on Today's Solid Gold Sunday on 102.4 Radio Hartlepool!

Sick and tired of the same old quasi-national corporate radio stations that aren’t even based in your area anymore, let alone your town? You know, the same ones that play the same hundred songs over and over and over again from one specific genre when you have a large, healthy musical taste? 

Well, don't forget to tune in to the next Solid Gold Sunday today between 2pm and 6pm GMT/1400h and 1800h UTC on 102.4 Radio Hartlepool with myself. We have four hours of pure Gold and Nostalgia for you from the mid-1950s, right up to the end of the twentieth century.

We guarantee you won’t find a less boring playlist on the dial or on the internet!

Listening is as easy as ABC: in Hartlepool and East Durham, tune in on 102.4MHz FM stereo, or worldwide listen by the stations LIVE webstream at www.radiohartlepool.co.uk.

Music on our next programme includes Blondie, U2, Wet Wet Wet, Elvis Costello, Sandie Shaw, Abba, David Bowie, Nirvana, B52s, Madness, Roy Orbison, Simon and Garfunkel, Bon Jovi, Elvis Presley, UB40, Procul Harum, and much, much more!

We've got our Astronomy Skylights feature at 2.20pm BST/1320h UTC checking out the April night sky, and we’re taking some time out with our Days Out segment at Redcar at 3.20pm BST/1420h UTC.

With news bulletins from the Sky News Centre at 3pm, 4pm, 5pm BST/1400h, 1500h, 1600h UTC, plus weather forecasts, join me for a real Solid Gold Sunday at 2pm BST/1300h UTC.

Listen worldwide at

www.radiohartlepool.co.uk

Solid Gold Sunday

Presenter: ANDY FLEMING

Producer: LEE THEASBY

Join Me for Solid Gold Sunday on 102.4 Radio Hartlepool!

Sick and tired of radio stations that play the same 100 songs over and over and over again from one specific genre when you have a large, healthy musical taste?

Well, don't forget to tune in to the next Solid Gold Sunday TOMORROW between 2pm and 6pm GMT/1400h and 1800h UTC on 102.4 Radio Hartlepool. We have four hours of pure Gold and Nostalgia for you from the mid-1950s, right up to the end of the twentieth century.

We guarantee you won’t find a less boring playlist!

Listening is as easy as ABC: in Hartlepool and East Durham, tune in on 102.4MHz FM stereo, or worldwide listen by the stations LIVE webstream at www.radiohartlepool.co.uk.

Music on our next programme includes the Human League, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Pet Shop Boys, Journey, Rod Stewart, Style Council, Bill Idol, Sonny and Cher, LeAnne Rimes, Oasis, David Bowie, the Who, Deep Blue Something, Sly and the Family Stone, Sybil, Herman’s Hermits, Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Eddy Grant, the Temptations and much, much more!

We've got our Astronomy Skylights feature at 2.20pm GMT/1420h UTC looking at NASA’s Apollo Project that landed man on the Moon in 1969, and we’re taking some time out with our Days Out segment at High Force in Teesdale at 3.20pm GMT/1520h UTC.

With news bulletins from the Sky News Centre at 3pm, 4pm, 5pm GMT/1500h, 1600h, 1700h UTC, plus weather forecasts, join me for a real Solid Gold Sunday at 2pm GMT/1400h UTC.

Listen worldwide at

www.radiohartlepool.co.uk

Solid Gold Sunday

Presenter: ANDY FLEMING

Producer: LEE THEASBY

Join Me for Solid Gold Sunday on 102.4 Radio Hartlepool!

 

Don't forget to tune in to the next Solid Gold Sunday today with myself between 2pm and 6pm GMT/1400 and 1800h UTC on 102.4 Radio Hartlepool. With our NEW extended format we have four hours of pure Gold and Nostalgia for you from the mid-1950s, right up to the end of the twentieth century.

Listening is as easy as ABC: in Hartlepool and East Durham, tune in on 102.4MHz FM stereo, or worldwide listen by the stations LIVE webstream at www.radiohartlepool.co.uk.

Music on our next programme includes the Monkees, Lovin’ Spoonful, Martha and Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, Scaffold, Electric Light Orchestra, Edwin Starr, Stealers Wheel, Sweet, Dr Hook, Roachford, Swing Out Sister, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Rick Astley, Marc Cohn, the Verve, Paul Weller, Beautiful South and Suzanne Vega and much, much more!

We've got our Astronomy Skylights feature at 2.20pm GMT/1420h UTC and our Days Out segment at 3.20pm GMT/1530h UTC.

With news bulletins from the Sky News Centre at 3pm, 4pm, 5pm GMT/1500h, 1600h, 1700h UTC, plus weather forecasts, join me for a real Solid Gold Sunday at 2pm GMT/1400h UTC.

Listen worldwide at www.radiohartlepool.co.uk

Solid Gold Sunday

Presenter: ANDY FLEMING

Producer: LEE THEASBY

Bluebird to 'Fly' Again on Coniston Water

ByANDY FLEMING

It's January 4, 1967 and Donald Campbell attempts the water speed record, seconds before the fateful crash.

It has been more than five years since a team of volunteers started work on an ambitious project in north east England: No less than the complete rebuilding of the famous Bluebird K7 boat, which crashed on the UK Lake District's Coniston Water in 1967. The driver Donald Campbell CBE, an iconic British hero died whilst trying to break a water speed record as he travelled at speeds in excess of 300mph. Campbell is the only person to have set both world water and land speed records in the same year (1964).

The original Bluebird K7 boat was pulled out of the water in 2001 by a team of underwater divers. Backed by the pilot's daughter, Gina Campbell, a small team of diving enthusiasts and volunteer engineers based in a workshop in North Shields on Tyneside is putting the original Bluebird back together using 90 per cent of the original parts and fabric - even removing and then replacing thousands of individual rivets. The team also have a pilot to take the finished boat back onto the water at Coniston for its 100mph run.

Shop, Relax and Unwind in Darlington

ByANDY FLEMING

If you're visiting north east England, Darlington is a great place to relax and unwind with unique heritage and contemporary attractions, and this award-winning, floral town will certainly surprise and delight you!

Darlington has been a regional centre since Saxon times, and rose to prominence with the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825.  Justifiably proud of its railway pioneers, Darlington celebrates its rail heritage at the Railway Centre & Museum, which houses the world's first passenger-pulling locomotive, "Locomotion No 1" and today celebrates rail heritage with a contemporary twist with the stunning floral replica of Locomotion and the spectacular life size brick sculpture "Train", an all-year-round attraction at the side of the A66.

A shopper's paradise, Darlington boasts twice weekly open air markets, monthly Farmer's Markets and speciality French and seasonal Christmas markets plus an original Victorian Market Hall - as befits a pioneering market town. Modern, bright and airy shopping malls and designer/speciality outlets in the medieval-like Yards and Wynds or the up-market Imperial Quarter, complete the shopping mix in a town which is compact and easy to get around. After a fun-filled shopping session, take a break and relax in an aroma-filled continental café or bistro to watch the world go by.

By day or night, Darlington offers plenty of entertainment to choose from, ranging from street theatre, live music, art exhibitions, a 51 acre town centre park, hugely successful Edwardian theatre and award-winning Dolphin Leisure complex, plus great pubs, bars and restaurants.

On the Rails: A FREE Day Out at the National Railway Museum

By ANDY FLEMING

Former GWR Class 4000 steam locomotive number 4003 'Lode Star' on the turntable at the National Railway Museum, York.

The National Railway museum in York has the world's largest collection of train exhibits in the world dating back over 300 years. You can't fail to be impressed by the legendary steam, diesel and electric locomotives on display. There are 750,000 objects in this museum but the highlights are a replica of the Rocket, the first steam locomotive built in 1829, the Mallard, the world's fastest steam engine, Japanese Bullet trains and the carriage used by Queen Victoria between 1869 and 1901.

There is a daily turntable demonstration to show how several tons of railway locomotive could be turned on a sixpence. You can explore the workings of steam locomotives and watch the complex mechanism work before your eyes.

Train enthusiasts can get in the cab of a steam engine, build a loco, control a train and watch a live link to York's electronic signal box. For those interested in history there are exhibitions on the Flying Scotsman and British Rail.

Young kids (3-8) can let off steam in the railway themed play area or enjoy the miniature railway.

The best news is that it’s free to enter the museum, which also boasts some superb cafes and restaurants, model railway displays and workshops.  Parking is just £7 for the entire day in the long stay car park.

The museum is adjacent to the magnificent York Railway station on Leeman Road, so for convenience and cost why not let the train take the strain? There are regular through train services from Hartlepool and the journey takes just over an hour. For full details of fares and train times visit the National Rail Enquiries website at http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ or phone 08457 48 49 50.