TV Video And Electronic Repairs in Liverpool from the 1980s

 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 afterservice 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 Curry's 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. 

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!

If you got one of those 'free' Decca TV's,
chances are that I would have worked on it in
the Kolortron workshop at Smithdown Road.
These Decca Bradford's were a hybrid set.
they had valves, transistors and integrated circuits.

Free TV's

The Decca's were coming to the end of their useful

life as rental sets and being replaced by new models

that were made in Yugoslavia, as it was known at the time.

So how do you dispose of  hundreds of these as they come off rental?

Simple! The powers that be at Kolortron gave them away free

with every JVC VCR bought.   Result? -

Boosted sales, and the customer took away the rubbish - GENIUS !

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.