Watching Queen Elizabeth's funeral brought back memories of how technology has changed over the years for Dan.
The multitude of ways to tune in sparked some memories for regular Times Past reader Dan Harris.
“King George V died on January 20, 1936. I would only have been four at that time, and I know our Glasgow tenement house in Maryhill did not have electricity.”He added: “The Coronation of King George VI was held on May 12, 1937. Radio had been invented, but the main source of information was newspapers.
“We didn’t have electricity at the beginning of his reign, so most of the radios were powered by ‘accumulators’ - thick, acid filled, square glass jars with two terminals. When their power was low, we went to the local radio retailer and exchanged the accumulator for a fully charged one.”When electricity was installed in Dan’s house in 1938, he remembers his mother bought a radiogram.
“When King George VI died in February 1952, I heard the news on a radio in the factory in which I was serving my apprenticeship.