Remember when we all rented the telly

[slotter47 11]

Remember when we all rented the telly,valves needed replacing and you kept adjusting the vertical hold.

[Clown Shoes 10]

From Rumbelows or Radio Rentals.

 

Remember them?

[Joanl 12]

Yes and there was a slot on the back.....50p lasted about 2 hours and always seemed to run out just at an exciting bit.....

[hillsbro 32]

From Rumbelows or Radio Rentals...

...or Wiggy's....

[WallBuilder 10]

Radio rentals for us and I'm sure we used to have to get up out of our chair to go and press a button to change channels and turn a knob to change the sound.

[echo beach 587]

Radio rentals for us and I'm sure we used to have to get up out of our chair to go and press a button to change channels and turn a knob to change the sound.

 

Of course we did. We also had to get up to answer the 'phone. Must've been a lot fitter in those days!

Never rented a telly. Always managed to buy one and made it last for years. In fact my first colour set is stored in the garage. It's a 1975 Hitachi and it still works, or at least it did the last time I switched it on. Maybe I should donate it to the National Media Museum in Bradford?

 

echo.

[hillsbro 32]

...It's a 1975 Hitachi and it still works, or at least it did the last time I switched it on. Maybe I should donate it to the National Media Museum in Bradford?...

It could accompany the 1952 Pye in my garage. My dad bought it (from Wigfall's in Middlewood Road - price 40 guineas) to watch live TV coverage of the Coronation in 1953 - and a dozen or more neighbours crammed into our living room while my mum served up tea & scones. The set conked out in c. 1957 and we rented a console model from Wigfall's, until 1966 or so when we swopped it for a 625-line set, also rented from Wigfall's (BBC2 was only transmitted on the 625 lines standard, unlike the earlier 405-line system) In 1973 we got our first colour set, a Hitachi rented from - you guessed it - Wiggy's.. Edited August 25, 2013 by hillsbro

[dora58 10]

only one telly per house too not like now more teleys than rooms at our

[ukdobby 224]

Yes and there was a slot on the back.....50p lasted about 2 hours and always seemed to run out just at an exciting bit.....

 

Or if you was poor you used to grip it,ie get it for nowt.

[sunbeam 10]

DER Domestic Electric Rental (early 70s). OMG it seems as if it was the dark ages back then.

[scousemouse 10]

My parents rented from DER too.

[hillsbro 32]

Here is a scan from the 1971 Kelly's Directory showing local specialist TV rental firms.