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Would that be the same BG that advertise on the telly for plumbing,wiring,insulation,
Cooking the tea, making the beds, digging the garden, and getting any of your pets in the family way.
Me thinks they should get their own house in order first.
Did make me smile though...

err, yup, that be the one!! Have you ever actually tried contacting one of these companies though unless your a customer!!
 
I could give you the name of a guy near me and all you got to do is follow him round and take pictures of all his jobs, you should have enough material for your whole campaign :D
 
Do any of you lads know about or remember Redifusion?

It was cable radio and then cable television here in Geordieland in the 1950s & 60s and involved large black cables strung at eaves height between all the houses on estates. The cables then ran down the walls & then through them into the living room where there was a large rotary selector switch which you used to select which radio station you wanted to listen to or which of the two TV channels you wanted to watch. From this selector switch was run a wire into the back of a modified TV set.

Anyway, this bloke wanted his TV at the opposite side of the room and the Redifusion gadgee came to extend and re-route the cable from the switch to the TV in its new location. He did this by clipping the cable straight along the wall about 3 feet from the floor and straight across the French Windows ......

remember 'em? i used to work for them. colour TV was just booming.
 
I remember it all too well, as a kid, some where coin operated tvs. you could listen to the radio through it too. Then when i got married the house we moved into still had the old cableing in, which at the time B sky B used as cable tv to the house still had to use the selector for the channels. The houses in my street have still got the cable on them under the soffets.
 
remember 'em? i used to work for them. colour TV was just booming.

After I posted about them yesterday, I did a Google search and was / am amazed at what came up. I never knew they were such a big operation - I thought they were just a Geordie thing - but it seems they were all over the country and abroad.

So that's something else I've learned!!!
 
yeah. i worked at the stoke branch. we had something like 12 service vans ( mark 1 escorts ) and covered north staffs. average was 18 service calls/day each. all the tellys were modular construction, so most were a case of swapping the faulty board and that went into workshop for repair, then out againas recon. half the time the recon boards were faulty anyway.
 

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