We're lucky to have Jim's furniture...he also made a lot for the Central Club. All constructed with Elm and Oak appropriated from redundant farm wagons and the like. The chairs to which Vic refers are certainly copper-bottomed! He had hands like hams and yet he was capable of making the most delicate of models of farm implements...ploughs, rollers, harrows... even miniature hand tools... any chain work being made from copper wire, every link individually fashioned and soldered. A very practical man he made his own crystal sets in the early days of radio. He even made a proto-baby buggy which he named the 'Wib Rover' (after Jill who as a baby was known as the wibbly wobbly baby). This was a construction involving a walking stick, two small wheels and a seat. It enabled Bob and Joan to continue the walking hobby with their offspring over the Downs, with the benefit of being able to fold up the device in order to travel hither and yon by bus.

And as for 'The Grand Conversation'... Gordon Hall's is the definitive version for me, when he sung it, it was as if he was there. What a privilege to have known him. A man well worthy of one of your presentations Vic.

Sorry, getting too discursive again.