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I don't know anyone sorry, but I am intereated to know what this shop is now? I thought there was a TV rentals shop on Hough Lane once? Can't remember one on Chapel Brow? Or could that possibly be before my time!!!??
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The shop is now Rimmers Music
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Course I remember it now, but I was only a little girl then, Thanks Martin.
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1970-71 there was a brand new Visionhire TV showroom on Hough Ln. and one day a film crew turned up to shoot a TV advert outside the shop.
An engineer was filmed carrying a set from his van a few steps to the shop door. But the director wasn't happy, he said it didn't look like a TV engineer.
The crew returned a week later to shoot the scene with an actor !!!
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Roy, your 'movies'really lift this forum out of the ordinary.
Many thanks for the enjoyment they give.
Best of,
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The one on Hough Lane was originally a local company (Radio Rentals?) the proprietor was Bill (can't remember his last name), and he started out doing what we would now call "cable radio". We had it at our Church Road house - a speaker connected to a wall box that had a 4-position rotary switch that gave you the BBC Home Service, Light Programme, the Third Programme (classical music and highbrow stuff) and sometimes Radio Luxembourg.
He went into TV rentals and then sold out to Granada and it became a Granada TV Rentals shop. Eileen's mum worked there for a while. It was in the block between Thurston Road and the street across from the Congregational Church - I think second from the east end of the block.
Frank
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
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I stand corrected.... think it was Granada rental shop that was used in the advert and not Visionhire.
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How long was it on Hough Lane then? I obviously don't remember it starting up but I am sure at some point when I was little I went in there with my mum and dad. Was it were the travel agents is now?
-otherside of the road to Walmesleys furniture?
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I will film both of these locations asap.
I put a few names with the workshop clips because they will be on Google
in a few days and some ex Focus staff might get in touch. At first there was only a showroom on Chapel Brow with a small tile shop next door bbut the tile place closed down and the TV workshop moved in from a place at the top of Haliwell Street in Chorley. Focus TV bought out Critchley & Mulhearn on Cunliffe Street, Chorley in 1974.
The once massive TV rental trade has all gone now. You can still rent stuff but there seems little point now.
magicman, thanks for the kind words.
