I still have my Marshall stack in the cupboard somewhere… not been used in anger for a long while but can’t part with it… The little ones were my son’s…
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Martin, what do you plug into it?
JCM800? As above…what do you use with it! We likes to know! 
Marshall stack looks like Russian dolls.
Did you know that Pure who are one of the bigger manufacturers of DAB radios did a Marshall edition. Designed to look like a Marshall cab. Identical to the other case styles they did but with a volume control that went to 11. 
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Now, I have a JMP 50W master volume head, which I bought brand new in about 1979. Still got the box it came in! I then bought the 100W equivalent off a mate a few years later. The one in that photo looks like the 100W version. The only visible difference I think is the 100W has that vent on the top, the 50W top is solid. Probably worth a few bob them two now.
Back in the day I played in a number of local bands. Started off on guitar, which I was never great at I will admit, then moved on to bass after a couple of mates started a new band and had a vacancy for a bass player. So most of my gigging career was as a bass player, but I used the Marshall lead head, and I think the move to the 100W was to try and compete a bit better with the guitarist in one of the heavier bands I was in!
My main guitar was an Ibanez ST300, bought new, again probably in about 1979. I’ve still got it. it’s a beautiful thing, incredible finish on it, never going to part with that.
The bass came along in about 1981ish I reckon. Again bought new, an Ibanez Blazer, a really simple and effective bit of kit. Still got that of course!
I pick them up to play every few years, lockdown being the last time, barely touched since.
Photo must have been during lockdown, as its got some office files and voip phone in it!
The black Aria was/is my son’s. He left it behind when he moved out and I’m just as likely to pick that up as the others, as I reckon its a pretty decent guitar. The keyboard was/is my daughter’s, she left that behind as well! Lucky me hey… 
Oh and the pick guard on the bass isn’t white, its reflective, I stole the idea off Mr Lynott!.
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Nice collection of instruments you have there. My wife bought a Yamaha keyboard just before Christmas, I have now had to redecorate the spare bedroom, get rid of all the furniture and bed get a sofa bed and new furniture, I’m going to hang all the guitars on the wall and that will be the practice room in the winter. Glad to see you have taken something from the late great Phil Lynott and it’s not the wearing of tight leather trousers 
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Yes those amps are worth quite a bit now. I had the exact same model at the same time you got yours, the 50w but then I part exchanged it around 83 or so when they came out with the twin channel version. it was ok but about half the volume of the JCM800 even though it was the same wattage.
Those Ibanez guitars are excellent instruments and last forever. I can see why you treasure it.
Enjoy and have fun!! 
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I had to look this up because I did not recognise “two shops”.
Now I realise that the Marshall’s shop I used to visit in Ealing was a temporary stop-gap after they moved out of 76 (and 93) Uxbridge Road in Hanwell (West Ealing) in 1967. I guess they took shop premises in Ealing Broadway for only three or four years, and then Dixons moved in after them for not much longer before Safeway arrived (1975?) and then a decade later the juggernaut “Ealing Broadway Centre” swallowed up all of it.
Google Street view shows “54 Broadway” and “Body Shop” on the little patch of ground where my fading memory suggests Ealing Marshall’s was. It was a wide double-front single story temporary(?) building a bit like today’s Barclays frontage to the left but lower and with much more glass, and just about where the pedestrian crossing is now, opposite Moss Bros.
But I still remember Alan dropping those Columbus strings in the waste bin like it was yesterday.
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Those are going for silly money on a certain auction site
Thought I would chip in with my little collection
Never gigged just for relaxation and a little jamming occasionally
My preferred is the LP Studio love the stripped down feel of it, I put most through my laptop and not through the practice amp
Uke my grandson has claimed, picked up in a charity shop, love to get another one as they are fun to play
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Oh - sounds like there were three shops! I just recall reading they opend one shop in Ealing and then had to move in to bigger premises nearby - I have a lot of books on guitars and amplifiers and the Jim Marshall story is retold quite often, often by Jim (now sadly dead) himself. Mentioning Hanwell reminds me I went to Peter Cook’s Guitar World in Hanwell in 1988 to buy a Les Paul Standard I still have - Peter Cook’s was near the bus station from memory.
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I thought it was about time a drummer made an appearance! I’ve played for years and I’m still fortunate enough to be gigging, most recently depping with a Pink Floyd tribute band whose usual drummer is incapacitated for a couple of months.
I started playing guitar as teenager (I’m 64 now) and played with few mates when we inherited a small, very aged and very battered drum kit. We took turns on it and my inner John Bonham (if only!) awoke. Although I’ve played drums for years I’ve never had lessons and as a result I have to work at my rudiments (they still aren’t great) but I love to play. I’m now finally learning to read music and playing in a brass band, something I wish I had done years ago.
I have two 4-piece Pearl kits, a PDP six-piece kit and a Roland TD-20 electronic kit (so the neighbours sleep peacefully!), along with a collection of snare drums and cymbals. I should probably sell some of it but like others on here, done things are easier to let go than others! The proceeds of any sales would probably be spent on the NBFL anyway!
Photos are from my last gig in Halifax (that sounds familiar) with the Floyd outfit a couple of weeks ago.
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So finally a drummer, where have you been hiding. Good to see you are still gigging. Is it true that you can only count to four 
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Nice selection of guitars, I see you have a Taylor, my guitarist wife bought one last month in Cambridge when we went to have the ND serviced and mot’d, nice sound and hers is an academy 12 full acoustic no electronics on it. What’s middle guitar? It looks like an electric acoustic a bit like the Fender Acoustasonic.
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I have done ok counting to four, any other number is just asking for trouble…
Pretty awesome kit you have there 
The Taylor is from the Academy series great sound, and fun to play, the Semi acoustic is a Sammick Greg Barrett, bit of a bargain find it had an issue which turned out to the pick up battery being flat,
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What a great story and love that you are still gigging! Humping that lot in and out means commitment of a special sort.
Well your arrival completes the band and we said right at the beginning of this thread that if a non musician (drummer) joined they would be made welcome…
Sorry! Old habits and band fights die hard. 
Count us in an wer’e off… 
And we do have a Roadie on here, he can lug all the gear.
That was a bit of a result