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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 4/5/2025, 7:46:24

I would have thought everyone had a radio in 1945 but I have this strange memory,as a 6 year old going with the neighbors daughter same age as me to tell her Aunty the war was over,Before Rediffusion we had a radio had a large glass like battery we had to take to the garage to be charged,

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Posted by Bob Ball <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Bob+Ball' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 4/5/2025, 8:13:27, in reply to "1945"

My Grandfather had. Business in Seaforth exchanging, and charging accumulators fir the power to rnn the radios, remembering that electricity wasn’t wide spread in those days.

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Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 4/5/2025, 13:15:10, in reply to "Re: 1945"

I recall Marie saying , as a youngter taking their accumulator to a place in Bridge Road to be charged

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 4/5/2025, 16:52:02, in reply to "Re: 1945"

I took one to the garage by the post office it was quite heavy,Happy when we went all modem with a rediffusion, No chance of that losing power in the middle of Jack Barton Snowy and Jock,

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Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 4/5/2025, 17:51:01, in reply to "Re: 1945"
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We had Rediffusion in our Ford house

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Posted by Jean <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Jean' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 4/5/2025, 21:02:49, in reply to "Re: 1945"

When I was little i thought at first the radio only had news on. That seemed to be the only time it was on!
Then I had Listen With Mother. Getting older, I loved The Navy Lark and The Clitheroe Kid!
I still love radio!
I recall once we rented a radio from Radio Rentals. One shilling and tuppence springs to mind!

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 4/5/2025, 9:35:43, in reply to "Re: 1945"

75 sefton rd didnt have electricity till the mid fifies,My uncle at 79 had it put in himself when we still had the landlady,My Dad couldnt wait to buy a TV,so we had a long cable across 77,and pluged into 79 socket,

Re: 1945

Posted by Kayt1 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Kayt1' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 12/5/2025, 23:37:37, in reply to "Re: 1945"

I thought the Coronation of Elizabeth the second was a pulling point. Everyone wanted a tele to watch it.

I only have a vague memory of gaslight. We got electricity 1950 ish.

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 14/5/2025, 7:42:15, in reply to "Re: 1945"

The little mantels, had to be so careful,When we were having electric put in,the workman was talking to me and hit a gas pipe,gassed the poor budgie,,the bird recovered and the pipe repaired up till the only the front bedroom had a gas light

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