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6th Jan 2022, 3:59 pm | #41 |
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Re: Serving The Trade Back In The Day
I remember going to Manchester first with my grandfather and then the adventure of going on my own on the bus to Shude Hill. There use to be an electronics shop there stacked high with mainly old junk and it smelt strongly of cigarettes and horse liniment . I think I bought my first transistor from there to make a little FM bug and also my first germanium diode to build a crystal set. I doubt they exist but I would love to see some pictures of those old electronic shops.
Actually almost brings a tear to my eye - grandads are amazing!
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6th Jan 2022, 4:04 pm | #42 |
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Re: Serving The Trade Back In The Day
delete posted in error sorry - dont know how to delete this post
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6th Jan 2022, 8:02 pm | #43 | |
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https://images.manchester.gov.uk/web...e&refirn=28713 The link below shows a shot of the building from further along Granby Row, it was taken in 1963, the year before I started work there, Piccadilly Station (London Road) can be seen in the distance in both photos: https://images.manchester.gov.uk/web...ue&refirn=1402 Originally the Granby Row building was a clothing factory. Below is a link to the Manchester photo archives search page if anyone wants it: https://images.manchester.gov.uk/ Lawrence. |
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6th Jan 2022, 11:24 pm | #44 |
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Re: Serving The Trade Back In The Day
My Dad used to occasionally drop in (I think it was called the 78 Exchange) as they also had second hand LPs & 7" singles. It closed about 20 years ago when the owners retired & couldn't find anyone else to take on the business.
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7th Jan 2022, 9:40 am | #45 |
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Re: Serving The Trade Back In The Day
Any remember Warrington Electric in Bridge Street, Warrington? I worked there when I came from when I worked in Foyles in Bath, in the sixties.
They didn't trust me to work in radio and TV at first, so I was repairing appliancies for a short while!
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7th Jan 2022, 11:16 am | #46 |
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Re: Serving The Trade Back In The Day
If we had not moved away from Cornwall after I left school I would most certainly have worked as a trainee or apprentice television/radio engineer either at ETS or Hydrovolts both in Helston.
With our move to Bath my first job was a trainee engineer at a family owned company called Bristol Wireless training mostly on television repairs in the workshop and customers homes as well as gaining my City and Guilds with day release at the local colleges. Overall Bristol Wireless was a happy ship. The family that owned the business sold it to Radio Rentals where I also had a good couple of years.
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7th Jan 2022, 12:03 pm | #47 |
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I remember Hydrovolt some of the engineers that worked there came to work for ETS.
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7th Jan 2022, 2:04 pm | #48 |
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Ref. Post#13:
When I worked for Radio Engineering Services on Arwenack Street a R & TV tech. joined us who had worked for Gears in Falmouth (Tony Ellis) anyone remember Gears? They were down near the bottom end of Killigrew Street opposite The Moor. I've just found an old film taken of that area back in the 1970's, at 38 seconds in you can see one of Gears vans being driven and pulling in by or close by to Gears shop (no comments please about the make/model of van etc) https://falmouth.nub.news/n/falmouth...r-in-the-1970s Lawrence. |