My Dad used to collect Practical Electronics and Practical Wireless magazines from the early 1960s. I remember as a young boy constructing my first one valve audio amplifier from an article. At the time of my interest, transistors were all the rage and I remember reading about the new silicon integrated circuits especially those being sold by the then Sinclair company. Still I built the valve amplifier and my Dad helped me with the aluminium chassis, teaching me the correct way to mark and bend sheet metals. It worked!
This is the cover of Practical Wireless the month I was born.
Months later, my parents bought me the Ladybird book of building a transistor radio.