Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Ceefax (Teletext)
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
1970s Lounge Recreation
CrustyTV Vintage Television Museum
Linda Lovelace Experience
Humbars on a Sony KV2702
1972 Ultra 6713
D|E|R Service “The Best”
The one that got away
Technical information
The Line Output Stage
The map
Tales of a newly qualified young engineer.
Tales of a Radio Rentals Van Boy
Sanyo SMD
Disastrous Company Rebranding
1969 Philips G22K511
Memories Of The TV Trade
Crazy house
Dirty TV screens
Dual Standard and Single Standard CTV’s
Radios-TV on YouTube
The Winter of 62/63
A domestic audio installation
1979 Ferguson Videostar Deluxe 3V16
Music centre modifications
Unusual record player modification
B&K 467 Adapters
Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Ceefax (Teletext)
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
1970s Lounge Recreation
CrustyTV Vintage Television Museum
Linda Lovelace Experience
Humbars on a Sony KV2702
1972 Ultra 6713
D|E|R Service “The Best”
The one that got away
Technical information
The Line Output Stage
The map
Tales of a newly qualified young engineer.
Tales of a Radio Rentals Van Boy
Sanyo SMD
Disastrous Company Rebranding
1969 Philips G22K511
Memories Of The TV Trade
Crazy house
Dirty TV screens
Dual Standard and Single Standard CTV’s
Radios-TV on YouTube
The Winter of 62/63
A domestic audio installation
1979 Ferguson Videostar Deluxe 3V16
Music centre modifications
Unusual record player modification
B&K 467 Adapters
Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
J & M Stone, Civic Radio etc
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I was going to say something, but after yesterday's shenanigans, when a new member threw his toys and resigned, after being given some advice, I decided to sit back.
All the new member Rex has done above is post a mention. This will automatically send an e-mail to peter10tv, notifying him that he has been mentioned in a new post, but there isn't any "new post" as such.
Besides, Peter10tv account is deactivated due to him not having logged in for 7-years!!
All very odd.
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I bought a Grundig TK146 from Civic in Coventry’s Precinct back in 1971 on HP. I got to know the manager quite well as it had to go for repair several time, including a new motor. On one occasion it arrived back in the shop with a big scratch on the case. Rather than send it off again he just ordered a new case and asked if I would fit it myself. Although only 14 at the time I was happy to do so as at least it would be fitted with proper care! I also had to call into the shop to make my weekly repayments out of my pocket money. The HP was in my mother’s name, me being a minor.
Working in Curry’s just down the precinct two years later myself it was still necessary to obtain a husband’s permission if the wife wanted credit.
Would love to see a picture of either shop around that period….
Peter
I've dug out a couple of photos from around 1963 or 1964.
This is my wife with our first son outside the shop.
It was a very modern shop for the time. Two full plate glass windows with returns either side of a terrazzo paved area before you came to the double glass doors. There was a return down the side of the left-hand window.
Our son again "repairing a Hoover washing machine," in the shop.
He was still playing with Lego at the age of fourteen. Became a consultant engineer and travelled the World.
I'd add that we always had immaculately dressed window displays, (which even impress me now seeing these photos for the first time in dacades). The reflectors on the electric fires too, the staff kept polished.
That Hoover Keymatic washing machine would have been the equivalent of around £2,600 today
Thanks very much for the photos, lovely to see the shop again after so long. Left Coventry 35 years ago but Curry’s is no longer there anyway….
Sorry to drift slightly off topic but…..
One little story about Currys; I used to work Saturdays and as can be seen from the photos above a fridge or similar was put in the entrance way outside the doors of the shop during working hours and kept inside overnight. Arriving Saturday morning there was a fridge outside along with its price card on top. It had been there all night as they had forgotten to retrieve it on the Friday night! There was a night club (Mr George’s) nearby so people had obviously walked past and just ignored it.
Have you noticed that these days few shops have a window with items displayed? The days of window shopping around town are long gone - shame.
Peter
The story of the fridge reminded me. At the shop in Putney, we had fridges and washing machines displayed outside, but I chained them up!
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