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| Iceboy53 Quote | Reply | | where was your first radio from posted on: 7/5/2005 6:51:06 PM can you remember your first radio. i had a very small one of the transitor type,and listen to radio luxemburg at night while it faded in and out. my grandma had a tv from....was it redifusion or telefusion at heanor. this had a radio built in it, much ahead of it's time. i think i bought my solid state radio from halls, about 8/6p |
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RMMee
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/6/2005 4:01:43 AM There was a shop called Telefusion at the corner of Market Street and Ray Street, but this was more recently than your radio! That said, I don't know how long they had been there. |
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Iceboy53
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/6/2005 12:08:07 PM i remember telefusion Robert as well. i think redifusion was there before that though or could it be the other way round. my grandma's telly was on hire from them in a way, there used to be a slot at the back where you put your half crown in to and paid for it this way. I remember halls very well for records. |
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Azzabuv
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/6/2005 12:49:56 PM When first married, i bought a radiogram from, i believe - Halls? It turned out to be more grams than it was radio. Soon upgraded. Azzabuv. |
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Iceboy53
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/6/2005 6:32:32 PM our family had a bush radio with the dials on it for longwave and medium wave. for the 45s and long play records we had a dansette, if thats how you spell it. it had one speaker at the front and when you had finished with it, you closed the lid and pulled the clips down. |
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patsyann2
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replied on: 7/9/2005 5:38:14 PM My first radio was a tiny pocket sized one which i thought was brilliant. I could listen in bed to Radio Caroline and Radio Luxemburg. Then my dad had compensation for a works accident, and we had a radiogram, which i thought was great.My brother had a record player for his birthday, and one of the first records i ever heard him play on it was "I dont wanna go to the party with you" i think it was by a group called The Teddy Bears. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/9/2005 5:46:45 PM was your's a little solid state transistor type patsy like mine,i think they had those tiny square batteries in them.i used to like "the knights of the round turn table" with tony prince. memories eh patsy ice |
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Peter Chamberlain
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/10/2005 4:07:20 PM Remember going to Billy Phillips shop in Langley Mill opposite the Midland Hotel to get the accumalator charged up for the sum of 6d(2.5p) After that we had Reddifusion came to you on a wire with i think 2 BBC programs on it Light Program and Home Service All the gubbins to make it work you could see in Fowkes front room on Station Road 4 or 5 houses up from the Bank on the corner of Elnor Street. |
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Iceboy53
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/11/2005 5:39:01 PM you know pete, that must have been a real pain, keep charging the battery up.how long did they last once charged. ice |
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RMMee
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/12/2005 12:26:50 AM I can't remember having a "first radio," but it will have been from PP's, at the corner of Cromford Road and Station Road, Langley Mill, which is where my parents bought anything electrical in the 60's/early 70's. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/12/2005 6:47:30 AM Probabley the Accumulator lasted a couple of weeks as Azza said it was how often you used it.They where made out of Glass about 6 to 7 inches high and square shaped when Bill had them on charge you could see the acid inside bubbling.Just for the record this was Bill Phillips Senior father of Bill who had the bike shop at the bottom of Bridge Street |
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suzard
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/12/2005 10:28:25 AM My first transistor radio was from PP's at Langley Mill-PP's also had a record shop attached to the main shop. (Young)Billy Phillips had his bike shop next door to Marshalls cafe (opp the Mill) before moving to the bottom of Bridge St.The shop Billy Snr had on the croft was originally Teathers chip shop. The Phillips are in my family tree-Billy snr being my dad's cousin. The Phillips family lived on Bridge St for over a hundred years-that's what you call a local shopkeeper!!!!! |
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Azzabuv
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/12/2005 2:04:20 PM Didn't the Phillips shop, opposite the Midland Hotel close c.the mid-1960s? It was a TV shop Etc. at the time. I remember the windows being filthy and behind them, just bric-a-brac and empty shop rubbish. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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where was your first radio from
replied on: 7/12/2005 2:50:41 PM Yes it was a double fronted shop next to the jitty that ran between the shop and the River Erewash to come out at the side of Edstone House on Milnhay Road.I would think it closed when Bill Senior died about the time you say,Marshalls general store was next door facing down Cromford Road he was the chap who did the teas at the cricket ground and sold everything from groceries to coke(made from Coal Azza not the stuff they stuff up there nostrils today)Would imagine Bill senior aquired a lot of Junk over the years he all ways struck me as a save everything man |
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suzard
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replied on: 7/12/2005 6:37:36 PM That's the shop-Marshalls was also a cafe-they used to hold great bonfire night parties on their back garden.Bill Phillips shop did close in the sixties.Bill Junr's wife was the sister of Horace Pearson's wife (of Pearson's scrapyard next door to Marshall's shop). Maybe thats where the love of collecting junk came in??? |
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