Coming Events

IMPORTANT VINTAGE RADIO
EXPOSITIONS ETC.
See also notes below (click here)

Booking.

Please make out cheques to The Radiophile and send to "Larkhill", Newport Road, Wooodseaves Stafford, ST20 0NP, enclosing a stamped self-addressed envelope for return of tickets. These normally will be sent out to arrive shortly before an event, but in cases of extreme urgency may be collected at the door. Directions of how to get to the event. will be included with tickets upon request. Your early application for tickets will greatly assist us.

Please note the condition that stall holders at either event shall remain open for business until at least 4.00p.m. This is to prevent disappointment to visitors who arrive late to she day.

Entry times
STEWARDS:9.00 A.M.
STALL-HOLDERS: 9.30 A.M.
VISITORS: 10.30 A.M.

RESTRICTED NUMBER OF LOTS

We are compelled to restrict the number of lots to be offered to 150 at each of these events so it is essential that readers Intending to bring items should let us know in advance. We can then send out entry forms and lot numbers to speed the work of receiving and displaying items on  the day.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR SHIFNAL:

From The Editor
No one dislikes endless rules and regulations more than I. but so much needless confusion delay, and other problems have been caused at previous Shifnal auctions that we really must insist o the following;

Vendors; Please take your lots to the stage door at the rear of the hall and not through the auditorium. Do not take them onto the stage but place them in the room behind to be sorted into numerical order by the stewards.

Buyers: We really cannot do with people milling about on the stage whilst the stewards are sorting out the items so please be patient. You will have ample time to view the lots once the auction has been set up. If everyone will play fair by the above, those of us at the sharp end of the auction will have a much easier task and, hopefully, more time to ourselves to enjoy the rest of the event!                               C.E.M   

OUR NEW AUCTION VENUE WETWOOD

Due to extra activities at the Sambrook Church, the village hall there is sometimes unavailable, which is why we have added the auction site of Wetwood. We are sure that you will like this venue, which lies only about 6 miles from Sambrook and will be much the same travelling distance for most visitors. It is also still very handy for anyone wishing to stay overnight at Eileen Mitchell's Bed & Breakfast establishment - you can call her on 01952 550256. The map below gives easy directions of how to reach Wetwood Village Hall, but here is some more local information for travellers coming from the M1 motorway. As you enter Eccleshall on the A5013 you come to a mini-island where you bear right. 100 yards further on is another mini-island where you bear left onto the B5026. In about 3 miles you come to Croxton village, at the far end of which is a fairly sharp right hand bend, by the church, before a winding down-hill stretch of about a quarter mile. At the bottom of this is a sharp right-hand bend before a quarter-mile climb. As soon as the road levels out you wilt see the Hall on your right hand side- There is parking space in front and behind the hall, and a car park opposite,

All enquiries phone 01785 284696.

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Here is a photo from a recent Exposition at Sambrook:-

Earlier this year we were asked by a lady to sell a quantity of old radio items that had been left in a cellar by her late father. She said that she would be satisfied if she received £20 for the lot.  One of them, after extensive cleaning, turned out to be a Marconi Scientific Instruments receiver, circa 1921 .  This was sold at our Auction of 28th. May for £2,800!   It was a great pleasure for me to be able to telephone the lady to inform her of her good luck; it doesn't happen very often but how wonderful it is when it occurs. (No doubt the buyer was delighted too).