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... d'you see that chap in the MAIN photo? Well ... ... he's a 'dead ringer' for an - whose communion card I used to deliver regularly for 25 years from 1975 until his death in 2000.

Widowed, latterly - and deaf as a post - he wore an old~fashioned hearing device, consisting of headphones regulated by a length of wire connected to a battery, kept in the top left pocket of his waistcoat.

Anyway, imagine my surprise when, one summer's evening, this still sprightly nonagenarian invited me into his cluttered humble abode, with the words: "C'moan *ben, [*in] an' see muh *vibra'or!"

Yes, *it was, of course, an alarm for arousing deaf people (who live alone) from their slumbers in the event of a outbreak.