hi,
Don't get me started!.
- old zinc carbon batteries, 90v and 120v for the radio's HT
- 2Volt lead acid batteries for the vacuum tube heaters my job was to get a recharged cell, once or twice a week
from the guy down the road.
- 9V zinc carbon battery for the 'grid bias' on the tubes, they had voltage taps every 1.5V
- food and clothing ration books, identity cards, the 'black out', power cuts.
- sitting in our air raid shelter for hours each night , 3 or 4 times a week, listening to the bombs exploding and wondering if ..............
- queues at every shop and yet more queues.....
- the BBC TV system closed down in 1939 for the duration.
- after the war, building homemade TV sets from war surplus radar IF strips and green phosphor crt tubes..
Alas, I remember it well, the GOOD old days............my ar*e
Regards.