Echoes of a Silent Dial COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

Echoes of a Silent Dial COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

BY ROGER WATSON An abiding memory of my grandfather’s house in Huntly, rural Aberdeenshire, was the barely audible chatter coming from his Philips transistor radio. The radio sat on a small table slightly behind the chair where he always sat at the fireside. If visitors arrived at the house, he would always turn down the volume on the transistor, but it rarely got turned off. He was intensely interested in politics and current affairs. My patern…