Entertainment - Walton Court

Had to take the accumulator to be charged otherwise you had no radio

First TVs was radio rentals

One lady used to sit with her son and listen to Listen With Mother

TV

·         Woodentops

·         Bill and Ben

·         Muffin the Mule

TV was only on at certain times, then was the potters wheel

Pop Music

·         Billy Fury was my idol

·         Lonnie Donningan

·         Tommy Steele

·         Skittle Groups

·         Helen Shapino

·         Johnny Rae

·         Cliff Richard

·         Jimmy Young

·         Shim Whitman

I worked as an usherette at the cinema in the Town Hall Wellington and my husband was the projectionist