20 replies to this topic

[Dicky D]

Do you remember when families started to buy televisions? Everyone used to sit around the TV with the lights out and the curtains drawn to simulate the Cinema. Then there was the screen that you clipped over the main screen which sometimes enlarged the picture but some claimed to give you colour TV. Were there any more innovations that I missed?

[stephen nulty]

Well it was quite some years after the early TV's, but I remember when I rented a TV from DER (early 1980's?) and it came with a remote control......which was connected to the telly by a long wire !!!!

[leschip]

Before we got our first t.v. in 1957, now and again we would visit Aunt Ethel and Uncle Frank to watch their 14" set. They didn't have any additions but the curtains were closed and the lights were off. Woe betide anyone sitting too near the set "You'll ruin your eyes". Anyone else remember being told that?
At 86 Kingsway Mrs Attwood and my mate Sid had a magnifying screen.( Remember Siddy Attwood, Stephen?)

[stephen nulty]

Yep, just down the road from us. And yes, we were always being told that sitting too near the box would harm our eyes.....in fact, I say it to my grandchildren today !!

I remember somebody pinching the aerial off our roof once..........

Ah, the good old days in Kingsway

[leschip]

Ste, I bet it was the Deans or Thompsons.

[stephen nulty]

Well, we lived at 52, Thompsons at 50 and Deans at 48.....

[tessmop]

They didn't have to travel far then!!
My Mum bought a 12 inch Pye TV in 1955,but my Grandparents bought one in 1951 and it's on that one that I watched all the watch with mother programmes,or in my case watch with Grandad! In those days you said turn the channel over as they all had those kind of controls.

[SKYMAN]

pity they dont all have doors on the front like they esed to
then you could close them when the crap is on,

[leschip]

Skyman there doors would hardly be open,
Ste you were nearly a great sandwich filler!! There used to be more Deans in the odd numbers near to Shaw Lane.

Edited by leschip, 22 March 2012 - 08:08 AM.

[vinty]

Heres a 1950s Pye TV complete with Magnifier

[Clancy]

I was always mesmerised watching the little dot getting smaller and smaller when the TV was turned off.

Our first TV was an 'Ekko'...I think that's how it was spelt

Edited by Clancy, 22 March 2012 - 11:45 AM.

[HORT]

I remember the Epilogue do you?

[Olliebeak]

Clancy, on 22 March 2012 - 11:43 AM, said:

...........Our first TV was an 'Ekko'...I think that's how it was spelt

Just for you, Clancy - anything like this one?

[leschip]

I bet NOBODY remembers the make of our first set.. Raymond Television.

[Phyll]

Hi Les, Don't remember it, but I found a pic!
See second link for lots more TV's.
Third link for main site.

http://www.radiocraf...aymond_F53B.jpg

http://www.radiocraf.../collection.htm

http://radiocraft.co.uk/

Edited by Phyll, 22 March 2012 - 06:51 PM.