He was the 'telly man'. Whenever it needed a new tube putting in (before tvs got cheap and disposable) Billy Wells would turn up. This almost certainly wasn't his real name because he had a foreign accent (Polish I think) and my grandad had supposedly vouched for him so that he could become a British citizen after the war. Apparently we got our telly fixed for free because of this.
He always seemed to be very tanned, so he must have made a bit of money out of it.
Black curly hair. Dazzling white teeth.
I always used to sit on the nearest armchair and watch him take the telly apart, fascinated. Wonder if this put him off?
Seemed like a really friendly guy anyway.
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