
Glendarroch, in popular Scottish soap Take High Road. Seventh decades, 'Primmie' enjoyed the fun of team camaraderie in the studioĪnd on Loch Lomond-side location, playing Mrs Woods, a villager of fictional The performing jobs, as a fashion show compere. Primrose also worked in films in London and, in-between Shows, revue, drama productions and a tour to North America with plays from Was an early landmark in a career that embraced music hall, seaside summer Primrose joined in withĪll the show's gags, sketches and catchphrases.
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Logan/Stanley Baxter comedy series ‘It's All Yours’. Prominently on the BBC Scottish Home Service as a leading member of the Jimmy Those years were recalled when she featured Life) had savoured an early taste of showbusiness, running around her father'sĮmbryonic radio station. The girl from Prestwick (where she lived for most of her They were Eric Bartholomew and Ernest Wiseman, remembered todayĪs Morecambe and Wise.

‘Youth Takes a Bow’, is part of history because of two teenagers who competed "Then one day I 'plunked' school to go to Glasgow andĪudition for a bigger contest at the Empire." That show, Brian Michie's To her obituary in the Stage newspaper following her death on August 19 th Initially as an impressionist and also on another new medium, television. Primrose would go onto have her own stellar career in radio, While Frank Milligan was creating radio history, he was also lookingĪfter a newly born daughter of his own, Madeline Primrose Milligan, born inĪpril 1920. ‘The entertainment has been of first class The station continued to entertain ever evening from 7pm with the Heard me in Sauchiehall Street, and of course that was a miracle.’ Nothing happened But I'll never forget the night I was heard and my mother And we played and we sang night after night, but The dining room in the little flat, and a microphone like a soup-plate It was really a comical set-up with cables from the kitchen to That little flat to come and experiment to see if we could send our voices Piano and Garscadden’s daughter Kathleen singing. Live concerts began in the cramped studios with Herbert Carruthers on Was made between 19 by Alfred Graham & Co, who were better knownįor their Amplion loudspeakers, for whom Milligan was the franchisee in īroadcasts the station broadcast gramophone records using a ‘Algraphone’.


Took place from 7pm on Tuesday October 17 th 1922. At a of the meeting of the WirelessĬlub held in the Scout Hall, Southbridge Street on Saturday October 14 thġ922, it was revealed that a concert from Writtle would be listened to,Ī concert specially transmitted for the meeting by the direction of the demonstrator Station) and broadcast on 440m medium wave. Garscadden’s station would be known as 5MG (also known as Milligan’s Wireless In October 1922, the two men gather the necessary equipment toīroadcast on the fourth floor of 141 Bath Street. Garscadden, who ran a domestic appliance business at nearby 202 Bath Street in Then found a partner to help him expand his fledgling business in George Opened a wireless sales business at 23-25 Renfrew Street in Glasgow. To Glasgow, where Frank, having learned about the use of wireless in South Africa,
