Dating a photo of TV Aerials please

[Top-of-the-hill]

  Thanks everyone - mid to late 50s seems to be the general consensus. I remember these aerials, but I don't think many people in my village had one that early.

[LizzieL]

We moved house in 1960 and Dad splashed out on a new television which got ITV. We got an H aerial then, having left the old "X" behind on the old house. The old TV didn't go to waste though. It was in a solid wood cabinet and was converted into a  piece of furniture.

It was just like this one
https://www.1900s.org.uk/televisions-early.htm
See photo " Early television in a bulky wooden cabinet, photographed in Brooklands Museum"

[Chris Doran]

So before or around the birth of ITV in 1955

Agreed.  ITV aerials had a horizontal bar with many short vertical bars.  Most TV owners had both from the mid-1950s on.  Some of the BBC aerials were X-shaped rather than H-shaped.

The H on the right appears to have a pair of the ITV aerials beneath it -- the pair giving more signal strength.