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Redhorn Photo -Carole Snook, Urchfont A magazine forthecommunities of Chirton, Conock,Lydeway, Marden, Patney, Stert,Urchfont, Wedhampton JUNE2 020 and Wilsford £1 1 Let’s all be nonagenarians My maternal grandmother died it on you could get yourself a drink when I was 3½ years old, so we are in the �me it took to warm up. talking more than half a century ago now. She had been ill for a li�le Well if I though we were posh while and I have very clear when we got a telephone I knew we memories of her and going and were posh when we got a television seeing my grandparents who lived it had a massive 14” black and on the East side of Reading about white screen and, like radio, it 60 miles from my parental home, a worked off VHF and had 405 lines to big journey in those days. make up its picture; it was magic. My earliest memory of what I During my grandmother’s illness watched were Churchill’s funeral. I remember my parents inves�ng in Later momentous events I two items of technology to make remember were the Mexico things easier. Firstly we got a phone Olympics in 1968 and of course Neil installed. We had a party line, Armstrong walking on the moon remember those, so you had to pick live, I wrote about that last year. Spectrum which was the most the phone up carefully as there powerful computer I had access to, might be someone already on the The television was purchased outperforming the computers we line.
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