VIDEO PALS (Part Two)

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.......Continued from Part One 

During the 1970's quite a lot happened in my Tape Recording World.

 

 

It was decided by a couple of friends, Alan Keech, Arthur Taylor and I,  to form a local Tape Recording Club.

  
 
 

 

 

 

 
 

This was done in conjunction with Wellingborough Co-operative Society. You can view newspaper articles about this by clicking on the thumbnail pictures above.
 

We also ran a few coach trips. I always wrote an itinerary for the passengers to read about the trip and one of these is shown here pictured left. As you can see it was hand written or scratched on to a stencil and duplicated on a huge rotary hand operated duplicator.
The biggest event in the short life of the Tape recording club was taking part in Wellingborough Carnival.
  Alan Keech made a marvellous job of decorating his Ford Cortina MkII car and this, accompanied by two lovely girls won us 3rd prize.  

We also had a stall at Bassets Close for this event and raffled a tape recorder which raised money for charity. The club ran a 'record request' night every month for the elderly people in Westlands Residential Care Home.

Whilst visiting our friends in Dumbarton my wife June and myself had a programme on The Lennox Hospital Broadcasting Service which our friends John and Peter helped to form.

Which brings me to my last news item during these 'exiting' years. I was asked to go to the Isebrook hospital to bring some pleasure to an elderly resident.

During the late 1970's and I was still a member of  'Tapeworms International Tape Recording Club'. This club folded in the mid-1980's and during it's life I acted as Sound Magazine Editor, Printed Publications Editor, and Treasurer.

One club of this kind still exists in United Kingdom. It is the Chatterbox Recording Club run by Phil Jones and can be found by visiting the web site.

http://www.btinternet.com/~phil.jones8/CRCintropage_1.htm

My camera during this period was a Super 8 cine . The change from cine to video in 1987 will take us into the next phase of Video Pals

   

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