HERE'S A NICE RADIO DISPLAY FOR EASTER

 Courtesy of Home Radio of Mitcham and dating from 1959 what a window full of delights!

This famous shop was established at 187 London Road (opposite Eagle House), in 1946 by brothers Alan and Colin Sproxton, using their service gratuities. The name “Home Radio” was suggested by their father.

The business grew and became famous with a world encompassing mail order service, so much so that in 1969 they had to  move to larger premises to cope with burgeoning storage requirements for their mail order business stock. They went to the top floor of a new office block a hop skip and a jump down the road to 234-240 London Road which gave them 2,400 square feet of much needed space. The business was being run by Alan Sproxton and Ernest Layton at this time as Colin Sproxton had retired some 5 years earlier in 1964.

Alas, all good things must come to an end and the company was wound up in 1982, as recorded in the London Gazette

HOME RADIO (COMPONENTS) LIMITED

 

“That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the Company that this Company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business and that it is advisable that the same should be wound up; and that the Company be wound up and that Keith John Chapman of 1-2 Pudding Lane, London EC3R 8AB, be and is hereby appointed as Liquidator of the Company for the purpose of such voluntary winding-up.”

 

A. Sproxton, Chairman