Are these records a record?
10th December 1992, Page 21
10th December 1992
Page 21
Page 21, 10th December 1992
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Keywords :
Audio Storage, Florence Nightingale, Gramophone Record, Sportsmanship, Colchester, Human Interest, Entertainment / Culture
on may recall the Hawk mentioned Age Concern's appeal for old 78rpm records which were being collected by Group 4 NightsPeed from the charity shops and BBC local radio stations.
It would seem the appeal netted more than 100,000 waxings, including 4,000 from a man in Colchester, who gave away his classical collection, and 2,000 jazz records stored in the garden shed of a Southampton woman.
The discs are being valued by an expert who is bound to be intrigued by recordings which include Florence Nightingale speaking in 1890 and the then Prince of Wales, the Duke of Windsor, talking about sportsmanship in 1924. If memory serves correctly, I was there.