Heaps of stuff
An Elegy for a Shed, Hopton, Suffolk - 28th March 2005
The Boy Phil helps to clear out his Grandad's old sheds. Seeing as his grandad used to repair televisions and radios, the sheds are full of the most amazing heaps of hardware: wirelesses, 8-track stereos, ancient testing and measurement gear, user manuals from the 50s and hundreds of valves, mostly still in their boxes - including loads of classic Mullards. There are even a couple of proper old tellies - ones from the 70s with only 4 channel buttons (the fourth often being ITA2 and not Channel 4), including a Ferguson much like the one Nosher's own grandparents had. The collection has been untouched for a few years, and cobwebs inhabit the near- and far-reaches of the sheds. The task of clearing out is not a small one, and as in all such situations there's a bit of sadness that so much history must be binned or burned: these photos, within hours, were already historical records of something that once was.
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Janice, Phil's mum, pokes about
Two tellies and a top-loading washing machine
Mullard and Ediswan valves
The valve room
Phil rummages around
Another view of the television shed
Two folorn old tins of ICI Dulux paint
Some sort of substantial electrical gear
Richard, Phil's uncle, clears out
The dark corners of a shed
The back of a television
A couple of field-strength voltmeters on a bench
Janice through a window
More valve boxes
A poster for RGD televisions and radios
The door of an adjacent shed
A cobwebbed lightswitch and lock
Shelves full of rotting paper
A rotting door with peeling paint
A box of old bottles
A box of lightbulbs like a clutch of eggs
Mick and Richard in a Nissen hut
Uncle Mick burns up some stuff
Surveying the scene
Some hanging baskets
Daffodils bloom amongst the detritus of a life
A fantastic old fan
Mick and Richard take time-out for a spot of lunch
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Heaps of stuff
Heaps of stuff
Janice, Phil's mum, pokes about
Two tellies and a top-loading washing machine
Mullard and Ediswan valves
The valve room
Phil rummages around
Another view of the television shed
Two folorn old tins of ICI Dulux paint
Some sort of substantial electrical gear
Richard, Phil's uncle, clears out
The dark corners of a shed
The back of a television
A couple of field-strength voltmeters on a bench
Janice through a window
More valve boxes
A poster for RGD televisions and radios
The door of an adjacent shed
A cobwebbed lightswitch and lock
Shelves full of rotting paper
A rotting door with peeling paint
A box of old bottles
A box of lightbulbs like a clutch of eggs
Mick and Richard in a Nissen hut
Uncle Mick burns up some stuff
Surveying the scene
Some hanging baskets
Daffodils bloom amongst the detritus of a life
A fantastic old fan
Mick and Richard take time-out for a spot of lunch