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"Steve Taylor" wrote in message
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Malcolm Stewart wrote:

When I was in my teens I used to get all my stuff from Flatters &
Garnett in
Oxford Road (Street ?)

Road. When are we talking about here?

1953-1956 period. From memory, the only chemicals which were on restricted
supply were those on the poisons register, S1, and these were available
against a signature. Dead animals for dissection purposes; concentrated
acids, alkalis were easily available.
How times have changed - I now view the skies through an ETX105, and a 200mm
f5 Dobsonian, and am very careful with the very small quantities of
sulphuric acid and benzene that are in the cupboard.

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M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK