Interviewee: The only entertainment you had was a radio with an accumulator that had to be charged every week. You know, a great big old battery and an accumulator which we used to take in to Haslemere Radio where Pinhorn’s was in Lower Street. That’s where there’s a single house now. You’ve got the bottom of the Wells where 46 was, then you’ve the big house which I think was the plumbers people and then you had another shop there which was Haslemere Radio and Don Pinhorn used to run that. It was a radio repair shop and he used to charge all the accumulators up.
Interviewer: So that was quite a nice little business then?
Interviewee: I would think so yes. I don’t know if you know the old glass accumulators? Like a miniature car battery but they were glass. They were the sort of second back up on the radio. You had to have the two, a battery and an accumulator.
Interviewer: So how did he charge those up then?
Interviewee: They must have had a charger similar to a car charger but you’d go in there and he’d have all these batteries out with all these wires connected. They obviously had to electrically charge these radios like a car charger but you know a proper commercial type thing.