My father's brother, Uncle Ron owned/ran an electrical shop that was situated on the right hand side towards the top as you went up the High Street.
This shop did carried repairs to electrical items such as Radio's, Record Player's etc. They also sold electrical items such as Kettles, Radiograms, and many other items.
You could also purchase music and old 12" records of music. Around the 1950's when pop music started to become more popular, the small 45 rpm size records began to appear, and they also stocked the most popular records of the day.
One of my fondest memories is for one of my birthdays, Uncle Ron said I could choose any 12" records I wanted. Cliff Richard was just starting out and I can remember one of the records I chose was his song called 'Living Doll'.
Uncle Ron was also one of the first in Malmesbury to have a television set, which he had made himself.
Uncle Ron was a bachelor and never married living with my father's parents at 121 High Street, Malmesbury, even after these parents had died.
Of course, I wasn't born until 1943, which was during the war, but can remember being told that Uncle Ron had built his television before the war started, and as history tells us television transmissions were stopped during the war years so never used during this period.
After the war when they started transmitting again, of course, Uncle Ron had his television all ready to receive transmissions again.
This first television had a small screen of only 6" square and was in a beautiful walnut cabinet. Again the picture quality wasn't very good but I can remember having to sit almost on top of the cabinet to see the flickering picture.
Uncle Ron kept this television for many years, refusing to get a new one as he said it was good enough for him.
