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Advertising in the past

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This advert/cartoon from Turner Brothers depicts the strong effect the company is having on war-time machinery output in WW2. It shows Hitler, Goebbels and Goering singing from the Hymn of Hate with the words "Gott Strafe Turner Bros Press Tools". I assume this means "May God punish Turner Bros Press Tools".
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Bob Davis said:
All three French brands as well as Camel, Lucky Strike and occasionally Sweet Afton. Used to buy them from the kiosk , Findlays?, at Snow Hill station.

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I remember Findlays tobacco shop on Colmore Row. In 1968 I smoked a pipe also and used to buy Scotch mixture from them. Behind the counter had dozens of Blue? jars in with the various tobacco mixtures. I suppose it's gone now.
 
Bob Davis said:
All three French brands as well as Camel, Lucky Strike and occasionally Sweet Afton. Used to buy them from the kiosk , Findlays?, at Snow Hill station.

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Bob I think I've only ever smoked one Camel cigarette , I smoked several Sweet Afton and Carrolls No1 in the Republic of Ireland . Meanwhile back in Brum as a child of 13 Park Drive , Silk Cut, Embassy , then the pipe , back to Embassy then Old Holborn hand rolling tobacco that would have been in the late 70's right up until I packed it in 2001. Mind you prior to the Park Drive we used to smoke the News of The World etc
 
BHF is wonderful for sparking off memories. About 50 years ago I saw one of the most hilarious posters ever. It was on a hoarding near Bordesley station.

There was a man at a table playing a trumpet. He was rather burly, unshaven, close cropped hair and wearing a singlet. He might have had a beatific expression on his face. The table was a rough one. Somewhere on the poster were the words “I dreamt I dwelt I marble halls.”. On the table was an Ansell's bottle.

That is the essence of my memory, it may not be correct in detail. The bottle may even have been M & B. I always prefer draught myself.

It was only today I found the origin of the words (via my wife and the internet). They are the title and first line of a song, or should that be an aria, from a 19th century opera The Bohemian Girl.

Amusing yes, but who was the target. It never would have converted me to drink Ansell's. My tipple was Dares if I could get it, M & B usually but Bass at the Troc.
 
DCL originally stood for Distillers Co Ltd, who manufactured a range of Whiskies (and also had a pharmaceutical division). the yeast was a by-product of the fermentation of mash to make the whisky. Guinness took over the company in the 1980s, and rhe sections were separated. As I understand it
(https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/dcl-yeast-1) DCL is now a separate private company
 
JohnWish said:
BHF is wonderful for sparking off memories. About 50 years ago I saw one of the most hilarious posters ever. It was on a hoarding near Bordesley station.

There was a man at a table playing a trumpet. He was rather burly, unshaven, close cropped hair and wearing a singlet. He might have had a beatific expression on his face. The table was a rough one. Somewhere on the poster were the words “I dreamt I dwelt I marble halls.”. On the table was an Ansell's bottle.
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There was an article about this image in The Daily Mail in 2010. It is said that the painting was by George Belcher and was shown at the Royal Academy in 1936 and had been used on boxes of Fox's biscuits but was later adapted by Ansells.
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Thank for the info. I imagined he was in a singlet but obviously more repectable. The 'trumpet' looks more like a cornet.
 
JohnWish said:
Here are the other four advert pages from the Yardley Parish Church Magazine for February 1935

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There has been some dicussion of the printers of this magazine. So I had a closer look at it. It is really three seperately printed items. The cover and pages adjacent to the cover are the actual parish magazine printed in Yardley. It is 3 sheets giving 12 sides. Only 4 sides are numbered, 1 to 4. Following page 2 is an SPCK magazine 'The New Day'. This is made up of 8 sheets ie 16 sides numbered 17 to 30 plus 2 sides of adverts that have no number. This was printed in Guildford for the SPCK. The 2 sides of adverts are the less parochial ones given previously with adverts for Bengers and Bovril.

Finally there is 1 sheet (4 sides) 'The Monthly Messenger' of the Birmingham Diocese, printed by Hudson and Son in Livery Street. This is tucked in awkwardly between the last side of the SPCK section and page 3 of the parish section.
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great i love them old adverts mags.
 
Radiorails said:
Zubes along with other products are still available.

Ernest Jackson brands: Zubes Lozenges

Zubes are Ernest Jackson’s original flavour lozenges with menthol and aniseed oil. Contact us for more information about any Ernest Jackson product..
www.ejackson.co.uk
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I tried current day Victory V lozenges not a patch on what they used to taste like . Someone told me they had to take some ingredient out of them because they didn't like the original version in Europe . I am assuming that Fisherman Friends have been toned down as well because certain people don't like the cold steel etc
 
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