A regular contributor to the Scarning Beacon newsletter Richard Allan, has also been featured in the Daily Mail.

He’s radio ga ga! Retired electrical engineer, 85, has £15,000 collection of 200 antique radios that he has been building up for 50 years – including one of the oldest sets in the UK

  • Retired engineer Richard Allan, 85, has hundreds of antique radios in collection
  • He got into the hobby thanks to his father, who had built his own transmitter
  • Mr Allan owns a Regency Pocket, the first transistor radio commercially made
  • He says most of his 200-strong collection is working and tuned to Radio Norfolk

Read the full story here.

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