TV Repairs Liverpool
Early 80s – Started working for
Colorvision on Smithdown Road
(Remember them?)
There were three television shops
near the corner of Nicander road –
Colorvision, Kolortron and Crazy Eddy’s
(no-one by the name of Eddy there,
but a few crazies.) It looked like they were
in competition with each other,
but all owned by Colorvision.
1984 – Went freelance, looking after
service for some Colorvision franchises
as well as building my own customer base
repairing televisions and Video Recorders.
1984 – Formed Carefree TV along with
another exe employee of Colorvision.
This was mainly a slot TV rental business.
1986 – Moved into premises in Eaton Road,
West Derby, adding TV sales to the business.
1987 – Carefree TV moves to County Road,
Walton (opposite Walton church)
benefiting from a busy shopping area.
1994 – Started Anfield and Walton TV
to re-establish my own customers
and concentrate on the local area.
(It was also helpful having a name
beginning with “A” as this gave
first listing in directories.)
The 90s – Started repairing satellite
receivers for various independents
as well as repairs for some rental
companies that were left.
Noughties-Now – Installed CCTV systems
for many businesses including the
‘Liverpool’ in James Street and
the ‘Paraffin Oil Shop’ in Old Swan
amongst many others.
Became service
contractor for Hyundai
(They were one of the first companies
to bring out 42” Plasma TVs, and
sold many early – mid 2000s.)
Also carried out installations of
Audio – Visual equipment for
Currys and John Lewis.
Still going, and still have many
loyal customers from the 80s
and many more added over the years!
Aerial and Satellite Installations
In 1998, started installing aerials
and satellite dishes across Liverpool and Merseyside.
This included minidish for SKY UK at 28 degrees east as well as motorised dishes to receive
foreign channels from many different satellite positions.
IN 2013 when I dropped the aerial and satellite installations in order to concentrate on TV repairs. Since then, most of the TV repair work has been replacing LED backlights that had failed.
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Colourvision was on the corner of Nicander Road
and Smithdown Road for over 25 years
Kolortron advert in the Liverpool Echo
early 80s.
14-inch Ferguson colour TV £150!
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Subway now occupies where Kolortron was.
Originally two shops, Kolortron on the left,
and Krazy Eddies on the right.
It was knocked through in 1981 to extend Kolortron.
Fletcher’s video library was also inside. |
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