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Old 8th Jan 2021, 1:24 pm   #521
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Seems that so many villages had a local Electrical shop .
I remember Webbs in Kingham Oxfordshire and also another small electrical shop in Hook Norton opposite the local butchers but the name evades me.
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My Great uncle Clarence Barton had a radio shop on The Crescent in St Annes in the 1920's, this is a photo of his van

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I am racking my brain trying to remember the name of the radio parts shop on or around Hunslet Road/Sheaf Street (Leeds 10).

Anyone remember it?
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Johns Radio?
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Thank you Hamish.

The only Johns Radio I remember was in Batley, and it was a damn fine establishment for ex MOD test equipment at sensible prices.
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I remember Johns Radio, last time I was there they were flogging NOS R1155's still in crates.

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Hi any one remember Spuffards i think it was called in High st Gravesend built my 1st 1valve regen with ex mil parts from them long gon now that was late 50s still have the set and the tin of Fluxite used to solder? it together no multicore i was 8 or 9 at the time, No electric iron used to heat iron on a primus stove, How did we ever survive Mick
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I know I have mentioned it before a good while ago, Radio Supplies Unlimited in Bournemouth, who remembers that shop?
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I am racking my brain trying to remember the name of the radio parts shop on or around Hunslet Road/Sheaf Street (Leeds 10).

Anyone remember it?
Was it Leeds Radio? At the end of a row of terraced house near Tetleys brewery.
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Old 4th Feb 2021, 10:50 am   #530
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Down by Tetley's brewery? Wasn't that Mac of Morley's? Once got guided there on a black rainy night by some fellow students. I was driving but not memorising the route. Never managed to find it again!

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Old 4th Feb 2021, 12:40 pm   #531
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David, I'm sure you must have visited M&B by Leeds railway station, and what about John Birkett up the straight in Lincoln. Dawson Radio, Bridge Street Boston, where Ron Digging worked before becoming "Ron Diggings and his Digola". The BBC said, Ron was the first British disc jocky. For many years Ron went around the village halls in South Lincs, providing the dance music.
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Earlier up this thread, you'd have seen I was a regular at M&B's in the early-mid 70's. John Birkett and myself always had a natter at rallies and when I made the occasional foray to Lincoln.

I knew Trev Horner of Trev's discos. They were big in the later sixties and seventies, covering a band across England from the latitude of Brum up to the border. Trev was a great pal of Mat Mathias and had his office in Mat's yard (Mat was the man behind Matamp which also got branded as Orange, so prettey famous in his own right.) Mat's shop front carried a few accessories, jack plugs etc, but he was about 100m up King Street from Miss Taylor's component shoppe.

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Being 'down south' I never went there - but bought a few things from John's Radio - they were great to deal with and are much missed.
They used to have a large ad in Wireless (Electronics) World every month.
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I am racking my brain trying to remember the name of the radio parts shop on or around Hunslet Road/Sheaf Street (Leeds 10).

Anyone remember it?
Was it Leeds Radio? At the end of a row of terraced house near Tetleys brewery.
Hi Andy
I used to go in my dinner hour when I worked at Simms Motor Units/CAV at Jack Lane, Leeds 10 in the 1970's. Leeds Radio had a shop on New York Street near the Bus Station. Both long gone!
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I've just had a look on Google maps and the shop I'm thinking of was indeed on Sheaf Street. I'm pretty sure it was called Leeds Radio, and I think they also has a shop on New York Street. Anyway sadly long gone, that area of Leeds has been radically redeveloped.
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Andy.

Many thanks, Leeds Radio is the shop I was trying to remember.
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Local to me were Watts Radio in the Apple Market, Kingston on Thames which has been mentioned before in this thread. Not far from them heading out of Kingston along the Portsmouth Road was a surplus supplier which I often visited as a youngster. The name that sticks in my mind was Southern Surplus, anyone remember them? I may have got the name wrong or even the location may be slightly in error, it was a long time ago.
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Hi. Southern Surplus. I had many no. 19 sets from them as well as rotary converters.

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I don't know about everyone else, but this thread makes me want a time machine, I thought I had one in the round tuit pile, but I've had a look and it seems not. Am I alone in drooling over all those adverts in WW, SWM, and PW on the world radio heritage site?

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I think Southern Surplus were in London Road. (Jim Kenny) They had a load of old 88 sets.

I was the assistant manager of Watts Radio from 1977-81. It closed around 2003.
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