Remembering Sid

In the 1950's the Vernon Road roller skating rink in Scarborough was a busy place. I spent a lot of time there helping out with skates and helping people with their skating. There was a man called Sid, I cannot remember his surname, who played the records from a little cupboard off the side of the skating area. I talked to Sid a lot. He was interesting because he was an amateur radio enthusiast and the equipment fascinated me. He could never skate as he was afflicted with what was called at the time, a club foot. So he was lame. My mother and dad often picked him up in their car to bring him to the rink, and transported him home again. Poor Sid was found at home one day, electrocuted. I think he had been plugging something in which had no earth (ground) – a now extinct 2 pin plug- and touched the prongs on the plug.