50 Years of Televisions
How it all began

If you were wondering why Snellings is out in the country, it's because that's where it all began, in a garden shed, in 1954. One member of staff and no customers has become one of East Anglia's most admired businesses. With a reputation for service and honesty the company now employs 40 staff and a database of over 30,000 customers!

Roy Snelling became a byword for getting TV where no service existed, so that when Tacolneston opened, all the 'locals' knew where to come.

Always one jump ahead, Roy was the first with radio-telephones in the cars and vans, first with ITV (the Pye VT4,as displayed in our Museum, needed no tuning when the service came!), first with TV on Broads Cruisers and first with Satellite. Snellings always put the customer first. When Channel 4 came, all their sets had been pre-tuned two years ahead!

This foresight for the future has continued and with the introduction of Channel 5, Sky and Terrestrial Digital broadcasts, DVD equipment and Plasma Televisions, Roy Snelling saw the need to expand the technical service side of the company by building a dedicated workshop facility. This new complex, built beside the original site, enables the Service Engineers to give the best treatment to the equipment they sell and rent. This makes Snellings one of the few dealers who still carry out their own repairs and still offer prices which compete with, and often beat, the 'big boys'.

If this is not enough, another new complex has just been completed, again alongside the original site, which is intended to house a Museum and a highly technical Audio-Visual Studio for Business users. This will put Snellings at the forefront of Digital Presentation equipment that integrates with the latest computer software for Video Conferencing over high speed Digital telephone lines.