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One more memory, battery powered wirelesses! An elderly lady up the street still had a wireless set with a couple of glass 2 volt accumulators and a high tension single use battery. The garage at the top of the street still charged up the accumulators, but eventually they become sulphated and...

Again straying a bit, but Dad also had a circular saw bench powered by a 3/4hp Brooke electric motor which used to make the lights dip when it started, and a bench planer with a smaller motor. He ran a little sideline timber business in one of the stables, so the kit came in handy. He and my...

Jim and Chris have reminded me about aspects of the old house cum offie living room, particularly the gas bracket, a source of great interest on the very few occasions when it was used, always because of a power cut. There were two large cupboards, floor to ceiling either side of the fireplace...

Thank you Smudger. We moved there in 1950, and left in 1959. My memory is very odd, things from then as clear as crystal, stuff from last week as clear as mud. I think the catalyst must have been the love and appreciation we boys got from Mum and Dad, when you are enjoying life you remember...

My twin bro. and I grew up in a Butler’s (Wolverhampton) brewery offie, built about 1870 in a terrace. The kitchen was huge, in a glass roofed lean to, bathroom with lavatory upstairs, four bedrooms on first floor and three more on second. All the middle floor rooms had fireplaces, but I don’t...

I think its a fibreglass special built on a Ford Ten or Prefect chassis, look at the wheels. See post #189.

http://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB146_PHS_2693/

I know this might be tempting providence but my cassette tapes, some of which I used to play in my 1984 Ford Escort still work well. The car was bought new and only kept for two years and some of the tapes predated that car.

And yet one more! https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/wessex-auction-rooms/catalogue-id-srwess10043/lot-c16636f3-0d60-4ed8-8f59-a441017d6fac The radio it replaced. http://www.kbmuseum.org.uk/kb_images/er30/er30.htm

Another one I dumped in a skip...

I heaved one of these into a skip sometime in the late 80s...

There may be enough vaccine to give us a hope, the R rate is tending towards 1 again we hope, maybe, just maybe....

I am sorry to have taken so long to reply to you, but feel that I can do no better than direct you to here:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixieland and here:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Dixieland_Jass_Band for a better answer than I can offer.

Each to his own, I have to say I thought that Tony Bennett was struggling a bit, but then again, it's a matter of personal taste and I had listened to both before I posted the 1930 version. There are, of course, many different recordings of this one stretching over many years. You can't keep a...

Cor blimey!!! I've just had to clean the steam from my glasses.

And finally.... An “orchestral” piece for Maurice.

Don’t tell him, Pike!

The Society Bands tended to be dance music outfits like Russ Morgan and Guy Lombardo, plus Shep Fields, Horace Heidt, Leo Reisman and Roger Wolfe Kahn, who played dance, rather than jazz or swing music. Some of them were attached to hotels, or were more into film type music. I suppose a British...

Thanks for the other Shaw pieces, both favourites of mine from listening to Alan Dell on Radio 2 on Monday nights. Certainly used to beat watching Coronation Street! While I realise that little of this sort of stuff appeals to modern listeners, the ability through using the net to capture...

With the hopeful stories in the news about possible vaccines to help the populace fight the pandemic, a dose of reality before they cancel Christmas:- ;);)