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Yes, was it one of those pasteurised beers that came in a sealed barrel. No conditioning required, just plug it in and serve.
I always thought the brewing industry was trying hard to get everyone to drink larger because it was cheep to produce and was another plug in beer.
I always thought the brewing industry was trying hard to get everyone to drink larger because it was cheep to produce and was another plug in beer.
Notorious today, but at the time Red Barrel was very popular, and had a premium cost over other "proper" beers. In fact Watneys paid for a student at Leeds University to investigate what chemical compound gave it the characteristic taste (we might ask what compound makes a beer tasteless!)
Williamstreeter
master brummie
jmadone do you think it was Bing?
jmadone
master brummie
William,
Absolutely. Have a look here, even in those days they couldn't say it was Bing Crosby if it wasn't.
Out in the sticks Brummy
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Banjo
master brummie
Hi William, there is a you tube site that does credit Michael Holliday with these adverts but, most websites credit them to Bing Crosby. Their voices were very similar but, I believe it to be Bing.
DavidGrain
master brummie
It appears that there were two version of the Shell Song. Bing Crosby sang the Irish version shown in the jmadone post above and this English version
mbenne
master brummie
I had a part time evening job at the New Cresta Club - this was a Watney's establishment where I had my first taste of Red Barrel - it was awful and despite being pumped it always seemed to be warm! Unfortunately its making a revival
The return of Watneys – and other old beers we'd welcome back
The first beer I ever drank was Double Diamond.
www.telegraph.co.uk
oldMohawk
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When I was young and impressionable in the 1950s I thought it cool to drink the much advertised beer called 'Double Diamond" and remember drinking a couple during an interval at the Stratford Theatre in 1952 when Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier were in Macbeth. They put on a brilliant performance and afterwards I went back to the place where I was staying, drunk another 6 or 7 and was up all night rather poorly !
In 1954 I went on holiday to North Devon and drunk DD in most of the pubs around Ilfracombe and even on a boat trip to Lundy Island with a splitting headache on the voyage back ...
Perhaps it didn't work wonders for me ....
In 1954 I went on holiday to North Devon and drunk DD in most of the pubs around Ilfracombe and even on a boat trip to Lundy Island with a splitting headache on the voyage back ...
Perhaps it didn't work wonders for me ....
Have now culled the thread, and it is down from 69 pages to 49. Some of the culls have been because of broken links (though apologise if some still remain) while 5 came up as dodgy according to MacAfee. Many others have been where the posters had allowed themselves to go off thread. May I remind you that this thread is on old-time advertising, and, whereas this would include information, or links to information, about the advertised products, it is not the place for discussion of your beer-likes or history of a football team.
I Am Nico
master brummie
I have a 78 of Michael Holiday singing it was dad's but nothing to play them on now.
Jonob
master brummie
I thought that slogan belonged to "Sword and Robb" of Smallbrook Street
wendylee
master brummie
A Sparks
master brummie
The magazine is of a particular interest to me as I noticed it was published by SPCK.
Founded 1698 and they are still going strong, I worked for them for 18 years until I retired last year! No longer in Northumberland Avenue though.
The parish magazine that I helped deliver in the late 1950/early 1960s had an insert that no doubt was produced by SPCK, making it some sort of a joint publication. Did that mean that SPCK paid the parish to include its insert, (which would reduce the parish's printing bill)?
A Sparks
master brummie
Yes, I would guess so, there was obviously some benefit.
SPCK was no longer involved with parish magazines during my time there and outsourced all the printing of their books etc to printing companies.
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
Ah! those were the days, all the local businesses crying their wares in the local Parish magazine, nothing fancy about the adverts, in most cases they did what it said in print. I wonder at what age did grandma give up Ovaltine and start on Bengers. They don't sell it at my local supermarket. I remember the name, but what was it, is there a grandma out there who tried it?
Bob
oldMohawk
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Probably a peak time for poster advertising as these old adverts show on buildings at the corner of Little Bow Street.
Something strange advertised at the Theatre Royal on the left, and Miss Vesta Tilley is appearing at Day's Theatre. Pear's Soap makes hands velvet soft and white, L'Hollier's perambulators for babies, and various digestive remedies. Almost something for everything. To the left of the gas lamp an advert shows someone falling head first on to a road but what it advertises is a mystery.
Behind the adverts plastered on the corner building used to be the National Provincial Bank !
On the street two groups of men look at each other and no one is smiling !
click the pic and + to enlarge they are not smiling ....
A map below shows where the photograper was standing.
And look around with Google streetview to see the area today. Click with mouse wheel or right click to see in separate tab ...
Something strange advertised at the Theatre Royal on the left, and Miss Vesta Tilley is appearing at Day's Theatre. Pear's Soap makes hands velvet soft and white, L'Hollier's perambulators for babies, and various digestive remedies. Almost something for everything. To the left of the gas lamp an advert shows someone falling head first on to a road but what it advertises is a mystery.
Behind the adverts plastered on the corner building used to be the National Provincial Bank !
On the street two groups of men look at each other and no one is smiling !
click the pic and + to enlarge they are not smiling ....
A map below shows where the photograper was standing.
And look around with Google streetview to see the area today. Click with mouse wheel or right click to see in separate tab ...
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Here are the other four advert pages from the Yardley Parish Church Magazine for February 1935
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.
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.
Robert Ensor (bob)
master brummie
For hands that do dishes that feel soft as your face use Mild Green Fairy Liquid
Jonob
master brummie
Here's a couple of photo's relating to two of your adverts. Shakespeare Bro's & Smith finished up next door to Barclays Bank on Station Rd and were there into the 1960's, John.
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