The Radio Workshop vintage radio repairs and restoration by a vintage City & Guilds qualified radio and TV engineer

The golden age of radio is not dead, it's just covered in cobwebs. There are many people who appreciate the old days of listening to the wireless, and I'm one of them. One aspect of old valve radios that intrigues me is the notion that the BBC Home Service would have emanated from the loud speakers during the war years. Churchill would have spoken to the nation, and a host of interesting programmes entertained families during the forties and fifties. I imagine a beautiful radio with a highly polished wood or Bakelite cabinet in the lounge, the man of the house smoking his pipe and listening to the Suez crisis during the fifties while the children played with tin toys on the floor.

Housewives' Choice, Mrs Dale's Diary, The Billy Cotton Band Show, Music While You Work, The Goon Show, The Clitheroe Kid, Round The Horn, ITMA with Jack Train, Sing Something Simple... All these programes and more would have been listened to on valve radios. As I child, I had a valve radio on my bedsie table. The dial lamp glowing in the dark, I'd listen to a play and lose myself in the plot. Great stuff.

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Many of you reading this will recall listening to your own or your parents' classic valve radio in the lounge and enjoying Listen With Mother or an evening drama or short play. A vintage radio is something which should be used and enjoyed, and you can enjoy yours once again. If you have an old radio in the attic, drag it out and wipe the dust from the cabinet. Do you remember that radio taking pride of place on the sideboard? Having spent forty years in the attic, it probably won't work - and I advise you against plugging it in. However, it won't cost you a small fortune to have it repaired. If you have a vintage valve radio which you've found in the attic and you'd like to hear it working again, click HERE.

There were a lot of short wave listeners in the old days, and I was one of them. Many of the early radios covered the short wave bands and it was great fun tuning around during the evenings listening to broadcasts from far away lands. If your old wireless covers the short wave bands, you might try putting an aerial up, click HERE for details. Some of the better, more expensive, radios had an extra valve, called an RF amplifier, for improving short wave reception. But even the standard sets can pull in stations from all over the world with a simple wire aerial.

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Whatever your needs, whether a quick get-it-working repair or a full restoration job, I can help you. Do you just want a new mains lead and plug fitted? Do you just want that crackly volume control cleaned? Perhaps you'd like me to give your radio a safety check. Maybe your radio needs a full service. Whatever your needs or budget, I can help you. One stop... All your needs catered for in the one stop Radio Workshop.

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