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Old 28-12-2015, 21:34   #7
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Radios

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Originally Posted by Retlaw View Post
I remember that Hilversum station on our radio when I was little, the first one we had was battery operated, I used to have to take the battery (a glass jar with a carbon rod down one corner & a handle on top) to a shop on Nuttal St to get it charged, it was quite heavy for me, and one time I clutched it to my chest to make it easier to carry, the acid burnt a hole in my shirt, that got me a thick ear. The next radio was a lot bigger and had umpty dozen valves in it, that had push buttons for some stations and a great needle in the middle for tuning. Hilversum was a foriegn station like Luxemburg, might have been Norway, Denmark or sumwer like that. I still have that radio its been stuck up in the attic for nigh on 40 years, it should still work, it was working before I put it there.
Would that be Bob Wilkinsons where you took the battery to be charged.
I used to go there for lamp oil and coal bricks.....oh yes and donkey stones if the rag man hadn't got any.
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