The Radio Shop In Hanwell Broadway
A Memory of Hanwell.
The transistor wasn't even heard of in 1953. Radios were big. Every week you took an accumulator out of the back of the radio and carefully carried it to the radio shop, and there for a small fee, perhaps 1p (old money) it was charged. Basically it was a lead acid, not unlike a little car battery, but in glass. Exide was the make I recall. I myself was lucky enough to have had my own crystal set. This needed a large ariel down the garden and an earth ( a rod driven into the soil). You listened through headphones.
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