Not guilty m'lud

 

I thought I was one of them until I realised I had turned the colour down on the set !!!

LOL I bet you've never even seen a  B & W TV, have you EC?

You got me thinking now Baz. Just trying to remember if my parents had a black and white in the 1970's. Will ask my Mum.

They may have done EC, cos I don't think we got a colour TV until the late 70s

I believe that my parents rather like many others bought their first tellybox for the coronation. I'm sure that our local dept store had a colour set before 1970? They set it up and arranged a semi circle of chairs. However the only thing on offer was Tennis. I think they bought a colour set in the early seventies, but we we were married in 75 and it was a few years before we had one. Our first few were second hand B&W sets. Although we did buy one of the first Sony Betamax video recorders in the early eighties!

I used to have a black and white portable in my bedroom when I lived at my parents, I thought it was great

GJ, my faher bought a television for the coronation and claimed he was the first person in Gloucester to have one. Neighbours came to his house to watch the coronation.

Indeed! My Mum and Dad had a houseful too!

I remember the first time I ever watched anything on a colour TV, it was the film State Fair at my auntie's house on a Saturday afternoon, I can remember the day of the week but not the year! At a guess I'd say I was about 7 years old, so 1967?

Not me! I'm surprised its so many really, I wonder where they are & why they haven't upgraded!

We had one when I was growing up.  It was in my parents room and was very small in comparison to the sets these days.  

my family was so poor we had a black and white telly till well into the 80s  

 

Hill Street Blues was the first thing I saw in colour 

I bet some have got colour tellies but are still buying a b & w licence 

I know someone who until very recently had a black and white TV - he got a considerable number of checks on him to confirm he still had black and white as he only had a B&W licence.

 

We gave him an old colour telly and he's that tight - he waited for his B&W licence to expire before he begrudgingly bought a colour licence - only then did he plug it in.

 

He's dead tight but scrupulously honest too.

Had a black and white TV in the 80s as a bedroom TV.  It was one of those ones with round aerials at the back, something like this

 

I can remember having one like that as a kid in the room where we weren't allowed to watch TV when Dad was sleeping, and one Christmas we had to watch The Wizard of Oz on it, I wasn't impressed, the best bit is when it turns to colour.

am not ashamed am 1 of em. a hav a 15 inch lcd color in me livin room n a black n white 1 beside me bed got it off me mate for free he runs a tv buisness in sedgefield

Surely Ferryhill.

nar mate he lives in sedgefield believe it or not he does alot of business in the big city as well targets the student market