Nostalgia - Not SOTA

[G3NYY]

@G8ADD

The shop I refer to was not far from the Swan at Yardley, in a side street I can’t remember the name of but not far from a motorcycle shop that has been there for decades.

Chas Young (G2AK) ?

73,
Walt (G3NYY)

[G8ADD]

More nostalgia, Chas Young was in the city centre, Dale End, until he closed down and the area was redeveloped. Everything I built from about 1956 until the shop closed used his stock. If I close my eyes I can still picture the shop and the gear on the shelves!

Brian

[G4MD]

@G8ADD

Chas Young was in the city centre,

Don’t remember the store in Dale End, when I was a lad his emporium was at the top of Corporation Street, just before the law courts. Bought my first set of Denco coils there when I was kneehigh to a grasshopper, a few years later in my early teens I spent many a happy hour ferretting through the boxes of bargains not realising I was witnessing the dying throes of a grand institution. One fateful day I went up there to find it gone… still remember the desolation I felt now

Dangerous stuff this nostalgia :-s

73 de Paul G4MD

[M1BUU]

Eee, when I were a lad, I eyed up the FT1000MP and Kenwood TS870S.

One of my Elmers had a TS950SDX coupled to a 3 element beam, boy it was fun cycling across the valley on my bike to play in the shack for the afternoon! Those days were golden, ragchewing with North American’s who were having their breakfasts.

The first HF rig that I operated at my parent’s house was a borrowed Icom IC735. Good times!

73, Colin

[G8ADD]

@G4MD

Don’t remember the store in Dale End, when I was a lad his emporium was at the top of Corporation Street, just before the law courts.

I’d forgotten that, Paul, yes he moved from Corporation Street to Dale End, for a while both shops were open before he completed the move. When I bought the one valve TRF kit it was from the Corporation Street store. My later projects came from Dale End.

Brian