I saw my first drum kit at either Shadbolts or Rumbelows in the High St Stevenage Old Town it was about £35, a fortune then & it would have taken me ages to save up from my paper round money in 1956 to buy it, I stood there looking at it for a few minutes, it was a Broadway Kat Kit in a glitter finish
Also, who else remember Shadbolts electrical shop, now subway on the corner, in Stevenage old town, it’s where my mum rented her slot tv, used to take half crowns….great old days! ?
I worked in this shop training to be a Television Engineer when I left school in 1954, until Mr. Rumbelow closed the workshop and moved the repairs to the Hatfield branch. I then got a job at Murphy Radio Welwyn Garden City.
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I saw my first drum kit at either Shadbolts or Rumbelows in the High St Stevenage Old Town it was about £35, a fortune then & it would have taken me ages to save up from my paper round money in 1956 to buy it, I stood there looking at it for a few minutes, it was a Broadway Kat Kit in a glitter finish
Also, who else remember Shadbolts electrical shop, now subway on the corner, in Stevenage old town, it’s where my mum rented her slot tv, used to take half crowns….great old days! ?
Who remembers Blundels, where Waitrose is now?
So where was Rumbelows? From your comments I assume it was opposite where Waitrose is now, approx. ?
I worked in this shop training to be a Television Engineer
when I left school in 1954, until Mr. Rumbelow closed the
workshop and moved the repairs to the Hatfield branch.
I then got a job at Murphy Radio Welwyn Garden City.
I think you are right – I remember it well
I seem to remember that one could walk all the way through this shop from the high street to middle row. Or is it my imagination?