Name: Pat Jarnet Comment: Does anyone remember Dyson's, the record shop in King Street? I saw Diana Dors in there once and my Cousin Pat Allsop worked there.
I bought my one and only guitar in Dyson's. It was £4, that was a lot of money then. I was earning £2.75 a week at Horlicks, so saved weekly for anything I 'had to have'. With the guitar I bought a music book written by Bert Weedon. I taught myself the four chords, then my brother somehow managed to produce a tea chest. He fixed a broom handle to it with string attached to the top of the handle and the side of the tea chest. We borrowed our mother's washboard, or scrubbing board, it was metal so we had to borrow from her two or three metal thimbles as well. I can only imagine the noise we made, I know it hurt my ears. I remember playing the skiffle music outside in the garden, and Fred, our neighbour, who was a great chap, just stood and laughed, in amazement I suppose. Skiffle was 'the thing' on the radio, television and 'records' - we had to have a go...
Name: Pat Jarnet
Comment: Does anyone remember Dyson's, the record shop in King Street? I saw Diana Dors in there once and my Cousin Pat Allsop worked there.
I bought my one and only guitar in Dyson's. It was £4, that was a lot of money then. I was earning £2.75 a week at Horlicks, so saved weekly for anything I 'had to have'. With the guitar I bought a music book written by Bert Weedon. I taught myself the four chords, then my brother somehow managed to produce a tea chest. He fixed a broom handle to it with string attached to the top of the handle and the side of the tea chest. We borrowed our mother's washboard, or scrubbing board, it was metal so we had to borrow from her two or three metal thimbles as well. I can only imagine the noise we made, I know it hurt my ears. I remember playing the skiffle music outside in the garden, and Fred, our neighbour, who was a great chap, just stood and laughed, in amazement I suppose. Skiffle was 'the thing' on the radio, television and 'records' - we had to have a go...