Hello.
I recently stumbled upon a bloke flogging some records and found this handsome stash for sale.
A deluxe, 3 x vinyl CW box set no less! Titled, The G3HSC Rhythm Method, I thought I would show what the records look like and I have also made audio captures and included a sample recording I made for folks to play at your next dinner party, illegal rave, Notting Hill Carnival etc. Plus a little bit of history too.
Here’s the link if anyone is keen to have a look and a listen.
Still have mine, purchased for £6 in 1983
Declan
EI6FR
Nice! Do you still have the documentation? In 1983 apparently the dub plates were cut somewhere else.
It looks like the product may have been bought out as it was produced under a different label or something along those lines.
I think 1983 was when it was discontinued so you have a very late edition of the set there!
What’s more interesting is the phone number UPLands 2896. The GPO was moving away from alphanumeric exchange names in the 60s. My own parents number changed from GARston 4584 to 427 4584 around the time of the first Apollo launches. I can remember my father giving up trying explain to my mother to stop remember exchange names and remember the numbers. His work number in Liverpool City Centre was CENtral 1285 which became 236 1285. She was completely lost with arrival of a new model 706 phone in the early 70s which only had numbers and no letters. My father’s unsympathetic comment she’d had several years to make the switch garnered him a “Paddington hard stare”.
Liverpool changed around 1968 and London will have changed years earlier so UPLands will date this as probably pre-1964. Why doesn’t it say London? Well STD, subscriber trunk dialling started to become available from 1958 in the UK and most people wanting to ring that number would have needed to use an operator to connect the call. What’s quite scary is STD was still be implemented by the GPO twenty years later. My sister was at St. Andrews Uni from 1976-1980 and for the first 3 years you had to ask the operator to connect the number. Most of the time you were told “sorry no lines available” as there were few long distance lines available. Still that is nearly 50 years ago.
Yep I copped that on the centre label. Reason it struck a chord was I saw a similar number format in that Cubical Quad Antennas book I bought. Traced it to a (long since gone) book shop in Soho c.1968.
Regarding the records, you can date them by the run out etchings. Also the 7" EP, early copies had no copyright text round the circumference of the centre label. That appeared around 1976 up until 1983, plus the labels then changed colour.
I think it was then that G3HSC might have sold the product on as another company was listed on the label.
I like digging in to this obscure stuff. The rabbit holes it leads you down, like the early telephone number formats for example.
…yes, the good old days. 
Geoff vk3sq
