title	An Elegy for a Shed, Hopton, Suffolk - 28th March 2005
intro	The Boy Phil helps to clear out his Grandad's old sheds. Seeing as his grandad used to repair televisions and radios, the sheds are full of the most amazing heaps of hardware: wirelesses, 8-track stereos, ancient testing and measurement gear, user manuals from the 50s and hundreds of valves, mostly still in their boxes - including loads of classic Mullards. There are even a couple of proper old tellies - ones from the 70s with only 4 channel buttons (the fourth often being ITA2 and not Channel 4), including a Ferguson much like the one Nosher's own grandparents had. The collection has been untouched for a few years, and cobwebs inhabit the near- and far-reaches of the sheds. The task of clearing out is not a small one, and as in all such situations there's a bit of sadness that so much history must be binned or burned: these photos, within hours, were already historical records of something that once was.
imgp4298	Heaps of stuff
imgp4310	Janice, Phil's mum, pokes about
imgp4311	Two tellies and a top-loading washing machine
imgp4314	Mullard and Ediswan valves
imgp4318	The valve room
imgp4322	Phil rummages around
imgp4325	Another view of the television shed
imgp4333	Two folorn old tins of ICI Dulux paint
imgp4335	Some sort of substantial electrical gear
imgp4338	Richard, Phil's uncle, clears out
imgp4339	The dark corners of a shed
imgp4350	The back of a television
imgp4354	A couple of field-strength voltmeters on a bench
imgp4355	Janice through a window
imgp4356	More valve boxes
imgp4359	A poster for RGD televisions and radios
imgp4372	The door of an adjacent shed
imgp4379	A cobwebbed lightswitch and lock
imgp4380	Shelves full of rotting paper
imgp4383	A rotting door with peeling paint
imgp4389	A box of old bottles
imgp4399	A box of lightbulbs like a clutch of eggs
imgp4402	Mick and Richard in a Nissen hut
imgp4404	Uncle Mick burns up some stuff
imgp4407	Surveying the scene
imgp4410	Some hanging baskets
imgp4412	Daffodils bloom amongst the detritus of a life
imgp4416	A fantastic old fan
imgp4417	Mick and Richard take time-out for a spot of lunch