Hi there
    My name is Michael and I am 60 years old. My hobbies include messing about with computers, motoring (when we in the UK can afford to put fuel in our cars), Music (both listening to and playing) and Sport (watching from the comfort of my armchair now rather than playing.)
My family originated from a small village called Calverton which is situated about 8 miles north of the City of  Nottingham England. I started my education at the local infants school on Main Street which was called St Wilfrid's, then at the age of 7 I went to the William Lee primary school on the new school campus on Collyer Road.            (Click here for school photographs.)
I then went to the Colonel Frank Seely secondary modern school.

As a child I regularly attended the local village church (St Wilfrid's) where I was a bell ringer and chorister for many years. At the age of 13, I became the church organist when due to ill health my Auntie Mrs. M A E Dutnall was finding it increasingly more difficult to carry on playing.

I can recall one wedding that I played the organ at. The bride and groom had asked for more lively music to be played before the brides arrival at the church rather than the more sombre music that used to be played. With the permission of the Vicar (Rev. T. O. Hoyle), I played the whole of the Top 20 at the time ranging from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones and this really went down well. It was reported in one of the local newspapers and the Daily Mirror also picked it up as did the Johannesburg Star in South Africa where they did a piece about an electronic organ in a church that at times would pickup a local radio station and play that along with the hymns.
 I have owned quite a few organs in the past and these have all been Yamaha organs. I currently own a  Technics SX-EA3, which is in My Den but I don't play it very much now.
Click here  for someone who appears to know a great deal about the Technics SX-EA3 organ.
 

In my early teens I was a regular supporter of Notts County F.C and used to attend all their home games. Now I tend to follow football from the comfort of my armchair with an appropriate supply of Amber Nectar although both of my sons are now regular supporters of the club.
In my late teens I was a member of the Nottingham and District Lambretta Club of Great Britain. We used to meet in the annexe of St Margaret's church on Aspley Lane, Nottingham every Tuesday to talk about our scooters and to plan the rallies and weekends away. I always used to enjoy the International Rallies at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, because at this time (1966) there wasn't any Radio1, and pop video's didn't exist and so the Light programme (Radio2 as it is now called) and Radio Luxembourg were the only supply of 'Pop Music'. 
Fortunately a few miles out to sea were the pirate radio stations. The most famous of these were probably  Radio Caroline and Radio London who despite the attempts of the British government continued to play their music. You could just lay on the grass during those long hot summers and listen to your kind of music 24 hours a day. 
Today of course the choice of music available by satellite and radio is vast,  but back in the mid 1960's the pirate radio stations were your only supply of pop music.
If you're into 60's and 70's music then check out Offshore music radio  This is an internet radio station where you can get 128k streaming which I stream to my Hi-Fi with a Roku Soundbridge and the quality is pretty good and there are very few if any adverts. This really brings back those good times.

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