COLOUR WAS NOT AFFORDABLE
My father collected televisions –
black & white, second-hand, rarely working.
[chance INTERLUDE]
An advert in an old P & J:
RENT or BUY, From 42 Bridge Street –
COLOUR TVs
– free Tubes
– free Valves
+ 38-page Coloured Brochure.
[INTERLUDE]
Static, unwired,
my father’s televisions
stacked away in the attic.
[INTERLUDE]
42 Bridge Street,
a PAINT shop, full of colour.
[Final INTERLUDE]
42 Bridge Street: CLOSED.
Decorated only by graffiti –
Gosh the colour!
In a newspaper archive, I came across this advertisement:
Aberdeen Press and Journal, 19 July 1959: 
You could rent or buy these televisions from 42 Bridge Street, Aberdeen and along with FREE tubes and FREE valves you were offered a 36-PAGE COLOUR BOOK!
42 Bridge Street Aberdeen has been a location that celebrates COLOUR:
Aberdeen Free Press, 6 August 1891:
Aberdeen Press and Journal, 22 January 1981:
42 Bridge Street, Aberdeen, summer 2025:
