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tony sayer

In article , NoSpam
scribeth thus
On 28/01/2011 23:24, wrote:
On 28 Jan,
wrote:

As a kid (in the late 1960s) I worked in John Birkett's electronic bits
shop in Lincoln - but I doubt anybody here remembers that - 'twas great fun

Very good for semiconductors IIRC in the 70s. Has it gone defunct?

The Strait, Lincoln if memory is correct.

Yes, started at the bottom of Steep Hill and then moved down to The
Strait - still seems to be going.

We have H. Gee of 94 Mill road around here in Cambridge since Gawd
knows when. Mr Gee is now gone but his wife and son carry it on they
seem to have anything you need in there but sometimes, well most all of
the time .. it takes forever to find