The Only Television Set In The Street.
A Memory of Glasgow.
I don't suppose that many of my friends will have watched the last Coronation on TV, partly because it was 70 years ago, but mainly because very few people had a television. My father, Frank, had a Radio and Television business in Glasgow (C.F.Lines, 460 Paisley Road West) and borrowed a TV from the shop ( ECKO I guess as that's what they sold). He had trained in Radio Telephony in the Army and was able to build a massive steel aerial in the back garden of our council house (103 Trinity Avenue in Cardonald). It was quite exciting as a 4-year-old seeing TV for the first time, however, it wasn't as much fun when all the neighbours turned up as we had the only telly in the street. Apparently, I quickly became bored and went outside to play, a process that I may well repeat today.
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