{"id":11852,"date":"2014-12-24T07:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11852"},"modified":"2014-12-24T07:50:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:50:38","slug":"gerry-wells-1929-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/gerry-wells-1929-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Wells 1929-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gerry Wells (1929-2014) Source: BBC World Service<\/p><\/div>\n

Very sad to learn that Gerry Wells, Curator of the British Vintage Wireless & Television Museum<\/a> passed away on December 22, 2014.<\/p>\n

We featured Gerry Wells in this post from 2011<\/a>;\u00a0the included radio documentary is a must-listen.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to the Southgate ARC for sharing the information below:<\/p>\n

(Source: Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Curator of the British Vintage Wireless & Television Museum, Gerald Wells<\/strong>, passed away on December 22<\/p>\n

At the end of the 1960’s Gerry gave up his job as an electrical contractor. He could see wireless sets being discarded and felt there was a need for a “Vintage Wireless Museum”.<\/p>\n

The Museum for Vintage Wireless came into existence in 1974 and was later expanded to include Television.<\/p>\n

1994 Channel 4 TV documentary about Gerry Wells
\nhttp:\/\/www.southgatearc.org\/news\/january2011\/gerry_wells_video.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum, West Dulwich, London
\nhttp:\/\/www.bvwtm.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Very sad to learn that Gerry Wells, Curator of the British Vintage Wireless & Television Museum passed away on December 22, 2014. We featured Gerry Wells in this post from 2011;\u00a0the included radio documentary is a must-listen. Many thanks to the Southgate ARC for sharing the information below: (Source: Southgate ARC) The Curator of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,26,5],"tags":[3489,361],"class_list":["post-11852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-radios","category-swlers","tag-british-vintage-wireless-television-museum","tag-gerry-wells"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-35a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11876,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/jonathans-interviews-with-gerry-wells\/","url_meta":{"origin":11852,"position":0},"title":"Jonathan’s interviews with Gerry Wells","author":"Thomas","date":"December 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Gerald Wells, the Curator of the British Vintage Wireless & Television Museum passed away on December 22nd, 2014. 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