I loved Al Read. He never told a joke as such but was hilarious. I listen to the Top Twenty every Sunday night from 11pm till midnight on Radio Luxenbourg.. I would have a piece of paper and a pen ready to write them all down. We could get Radio Luxenbourg on the 'big' radio not a transistor. Don't think they had been invented when I was listening to it. I remember shows like ' Double you money.' and 'Take you pick' being on there too. Both those came on tv years later. A favourite of my parents was Wilfred Pickles in 'Have a go.' with his wife Mabel and when someone won money he would say 'Give em the money Barney.' I believe Violet Carson who later was Enid Sharples in Corrie was the pianist for the show for many years.
Radios
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I can remember Bob Wilkinsons shop on Nuttall Street. He was the "Ironmonger" and had a huge product range in his shop.
To get to the original question of "Radios" I remember being at my Grandfathers at number 1 Belfield road very often, and having to listen (without comments) to the "Archers"! This programme was the love of both my Grandfather and my Aunty Edna.
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Yes of course it was...when I typed 'Meet the Huggetts' it didn't seem quite right......but I couldn't think of Take it from here.
It was Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison in that wasn't it?
I used to enjoy all those types of program...I suppose they were what Coronation Street is now
Seems like theres a few owd Woodnookers like this thread, no matter where they live now, aye it were Wilkys lamp oyle shop.
I used to do all my Granddads shopping on Nuttall St durying the last war, fully armed wi ration books Co-op cheques and big basket, in fact you could do all your weekly shopping and never need to leave Nuttall St, I particularly remember one shop, about where the last post office was, I got granddads tobbaco there, gave him a penny and a 1/2 penny, he would put them on the scales, & cut pieces of black twist off a big coil until the balanced, then call in at my other grandma's on Edmund St, before I took Grandad Fenwick his shopping on Higher Antley St, he was married, 2nd wife, but us kids were not allowed to call her grandma, she had to be reffered to as aunty, none of us liked her, my two sisters refused to visit, Any way them days are long gone, but them were the days, you could even get your table legs French polished on Nuttall St. I could say that Nuttall St was in my life every day until my twenties, used it every day going to Woodnook Council School, and then when I started work at 14, going to Lang Bridges.
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You are dead right Retlaw....you could get everything you needed on Nuttall St.
I used to run to the co-op reciting the number all the way there... By the time I got there I had forgotten what I had gone for
I used to run to the co-op reciting the number all the way there... By the time I got there I had forgotten what I had gone for
The first 'radio' that I actually owned was a crystal set. It must have been the late 40's, my father must have got me the bits and I built it in an old cigar box.
You poked a spring loaded pointer around on the crystal until you found a signal. You never knew who you'd get and you could rarely find them again and the signal was awful.
But it was magic!
You poked a spring loaded pointer around on the crystal until you found a signal. You never knew who you'd get and you could rarely find them again and the signal was awful.
But it was magic!
Hoody Blell Gordon, crystal radio's were obsoloty by then, I remember my father telling me he made one when he was a teenager, and that was during WW1.
Retlaw, money was short, kids didn't have their own radios, when my aunt finally gave me a portable radio I couldn't afford the batteries, it ate them.
You could listen to the crystal set in bed with earphones and the aerial wire hanging all round the room on the picture rail, no batteries.
As for obsolete, you can still buy the kits although they cost a hell of a lot more than a miniature pocket radio. Just a scientific novelty now.
You could listen to the crystal set in bed with earphones and the aerial wire hanging all round the room on the picture rail, no batteries.
As for obsolete, you can still buy the kits although they cost a hell of a lot more than a miniature pocket radio. Just a scientific novelty now.
Exactly right Retlaw.
The shop you mentioned getting the "Black Twist", we would go there for some "Sarsaparilla" think the spelling is correct?
Then there was "Cowgills Butcher" and further down the road another butchers shop, where I delivered meat for him.
Somebody just mentioned the Coop and remembering the coop number, this brought back my memories of shopping there on my own and sometimes when I was very young with my Mother and believe it or not her number was 109823, which I have just remembered.
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My brother made a crystal radio when he was nine or ten...that would be 57 or 58......he was always very mechanically mined and took things to bit to see how they worked......and sometimes he didn't get them quite right when he put them back together again.
He eventually went to work for Fenners, then Goodyear in research and development....so it was obviously something he was born to.
I can still remember our co-op number too...it was 10168.
He eventually went to work for Fenners, then Goodyear in research and development....so it was obviously something he was born to.
I can still remember our co-op number too...it was 10168.
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OMG you lot make me feel so young