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Advertising in the past

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jmadone said:
I watched a programme on television last night about Cadbury's chocolate, I think it has been on before but a first for me. There was a section on advertising especially T.V. advertising. I was pleasantly surprised at the memorable ones that have since become classics e.g. "All because the lady loves Milk Tray", the iconic Flake adverts (for many different reasons!), "Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case", "Nuts, whole hazlenuts, Cadbury take them........." and for me the best one ever, The drumming gorilla (Phil Collins' Something in the Air Tonight.
Which one was your best?
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Curly Wurly. Chewy and curly, wavy and wurly! Anything to do with chocolate gets my attention!
 
jmadone said:
I watched a programme on television last night about Cadbury's chocolate, I think it has been on before but a first for me. There was a section on advertising especially T.V. advertising. I was pleasantly surprised at the memorable ones that have since become classics e.g. "All because the lady loves Milk Tray", the iconic Flake adverts (for many different reasons!), "Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case", "Nuts, whole hazlenuts, Cadbury take them........." and for me the best one ever, The drumming gorilla (Phil Collins' Something in the Air Tonight.
Which one was your best?
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The drumming gorilla
Bob
 
Chocolate and sweets were not a large part of my childhood. The end of rationing of most confectionery did not occur until February 1953, by which time I was at school leaving age. However, I have found that the fondness for sweet things comes and goes: I guess there is a doctorate why that happens. ;)
 
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i would "NOT" use or recommend the use of these weapons in the house. all air weapons are "dangerous"
 
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Well never knew about this ! I would have 7 at the time, when did it close ? Does anyone have memories of the place ?
Cheers aTim
 
Similarly there was/is a huge funfair in Southsea called Billy Mannings. He started off with a penny arcade Gosford Street Coventry. My late friend worked for him giving change, I suspect Butlins may have done the same in Birmingham.
 
Apparently, according to Wikipedia, Butlin opened his camps after starting in funfairs. It also states that each camper was given a badge as a sort of pass into the camp, and that these badges were , as should be, made in the Jewellery Quarter
 
jmadone said:
I watched a programme on television last night about Cadbury's chocolate, I think it has been on before but a first for me. There was a section on advertising especially T.V. advertising. I was pleasantly surprised at the memorable ones that have since become classics e.g. "All because the lady loves Milk Tray", the iconic Flake adverts (for many different reasons!), "Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case", "Nuts, whole hazlenuts, Cadbury take them........." and for me the best one ever, The drumming gorilla (Phil Collins' Something in the Air Tonight.
Which one was your best?
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The one for a flake "only the crumblyist flakeyist chocolate tastes like chocolate never tasted before" with the heavy guitar rift
 
There was am early 60’s TV commercial for cough medicine which I think was called Owdbridges. The strapline went

“for coughs and colds take Owdbridges” which came out sounding quite risqué

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jmadone said:
Very first advert on ITV was for Gibbs SR toothpaste
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Well that would depend where you lived. I guess you mean when ITV came to the Midlands, 1956 I believe. We had to wait until 1961 in the South West for ITV. Westward TV ran for twenty years being replaced by TSW.
Jack Train, Colonel Chinstrap (ITMA) "I don't mind if I do", was one of the launch team.

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Jack Train, Actor: Kaleidoscope. Jack Train was born on November 28, 1902 in Plymouth, Devon, England. He was an actor, known for Kaleidoscope (1946), King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) and Miss London Ltd. (1943). He died on December 16, 1966 in London, England.
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Many green grocery shops were just that. But, as is pointed out, some did fish and poultry. I think the fish and poultry side of a business was not as regular as greengrocery. There was always a supply of greengrocery and fruit, which in days past, did vary according to season. However poultry seems to have been more festive in nature - nowhere as plentiful all year around as now - likewise fish could be scarce during winters especially when there were storms at sea and expensive. Deep sea trawlers fared better but the day trawler, mainly coastal, was more affected and those buyers who could charge more for their fish usually got first choice. Rabbits, of course, which were generally cheap, were plentiful in earlier times.
People did tend to grow more of their own vegetables and keep fowl in the past which most certainly helped the family budget.
 
Radiorails said:
Many green grocery shops were just that. But, as is pointed out, some did fish and poultry. I think the fish and poultry side of a business was not as regular as greengrocery. There was always a supply of greengrocery and fruit, which in days past, did vary according to season. However poultry seems to have been more festive in nature - nowhere as plentiful all year around as now - likewise fish could be scarce during winters especially when there were storms at sea and expensive. Deep sea trawlers fared better but the day trawler, mainly coastal, was more affected and those buyers who could charge more for their fish usually got first choice. Rabbits, of course, which were generally cheap, were plentiful in earlier times.
People did tend to grow more of their own vegetables and keep fowl in the past which most certainly helped the family budget.
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Agree...…..Not sure where the rabbits came from but they would seem to show up once in a while. We did not serve poultry , dis that later when I worked at a butcher on Soho Rd.
 
Brew Xl brewed for the men of the Midlands, how about the add for a German beer with the bear sitting in the pub drinking and the handler comes in and says oi come on you, and the bar tender says in a real country accent leave him alone he's done no harm
 
Can anyone remember Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst advertising Watneys Red Barrel ? It was either a T.V. ad or shown in cinemas and it was shortly after England's world cup win.
 
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