February 12 1988. The first HRP committee.

Back, left to right: George Crone - treasurer, Ali McGowan - publicity, Howard Clark - hospital liaison.

Front: Corinne Kennedy - fund raiser, Stuart Kennedy - chairman and Mandy Law - secretary.

John Watson was co-opted to programming and library later in the year.

A pub treasure hunt and disco at the Lovat Hotel raised £338.05 for the new station.

Back, left to right: William White (Lovat Hotels), Ali McGowan, Stuart Kennedy, George Crone.

Front: Corinne Kennedy, Deirdre Kaye (Lovat Hotels), Mandy Law, Helen Watson (Lovat Hotels) & Irene Crone.

£100 donated by the TSB, County Place, Perth - in a hospital bedpan!

Helen Craig (TSB), Mandy Law, Corinne Kennedy, David Allan (manager TSB) and Caroline McIntosh (TSB).

Friday 17 February 1989 - three days before going "on air".

George Crone, Corrine Kennedy and Ali McGowan check that everything is ready.

Pity they didn't check the tape recorder. We forgot to switch it on and have no record of our first broadcast!

Mr Galloway attended to hand over a cheque from a Perthshire builders' federation.

Left to right: With the Thursday evening crew, Roy Spiers, David Galloway, Mr Galloway, John Watson, Alan Soutar and Jim Imrie.

Top Flight Leisure sponsored our Saturday Bingo programme.

The managers of BBs Bingo in Victoria Street and Kings Bingo in South Methven Street visit the wards to hand over bingo books and prizes to fund-raiser Alan Soutar.

Mandy, Sara, Denise and Gillian from Oakbank, raised £50 from a back garden sale.

They visited the studio to hand the money over to the presenter of the "Old Gold" show, David Anderson.

BT donate two customised telephones - they are still in use in our studios today.

George Baird (BT), George Crone, Corinne Kennedy, David Anderson and Forbes Small (BT).

Councillor Dave Scott visited the Jeanfield Road newsagents to crack open a bottle containing £52.11 in donations to HRP.

Irene Crone with Ricky Kennedy, Councillor Scott, Corinne Kennedy and George Crone.

The Weight Watchers class held in the Windsor on a Monday evening raised £100, the proceeds of class raffles.

Margaret Kelly handed over the cheque to treasurer George Crone and "Country Style" presenter Sonya Ross.

Stuart Kennedy received £200 worth of record sleeves from Garry Smith of the Concorde, Scott Street, Perth.

Over the years Hospital Radio Perth have bought the vast majority of their records and CDs from Concorde.