Was it SAXA salt with the little bird being chassed by the little boy and it read ' see how it runs'? Was Sifta salt the one with the sailor?
Perhaps I have them the wrong way about.
Maggs,
It was Cerebos Salt with the little boy chasing the bird.
Thank you Motor man Mike,
My memory is not as good as I thought it was, but was there a sailor in one of the salt ads?
Maggs,
Thank you Dave,
I thought it was Sifta Sam. When we were children, I think advertising hoardings (which were everywhere then), were very clever and I can remember studying them. Oxydol, Persil, Fairy Soap, Spratts biscuits for dogs. I noticed on one of the Brum photo's 'Barber's Teas' with the little lady in her striped dress. I had actually forgotten about that one. Do you remember BEV and BON bottled coffee.
Maggs.
There are 2 photos of the old General Foods factory on the Francis Frith site. As they are copyright I cannot post the pictures but here is the link:
https://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/oxfordshire/banbury/photos/banbury_photos_21.htm
If that link does not work use the homepage:
https://www.francisfrith.com/
A large suburban house with attached stable block. It was designed and built in 1887 in a loosely Jacobean style by Thomas Henry Mansell of Birmingham for the industrialist Alfred Lovekin with panelling by Plunketts of Smith Street, Warwick. The house is of red stretcher bond brick with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof and has two storeys with attics and basement. The stable block is T-shaped in plan and attached to the west side of the house.
in 1901 the house was sold to Alfred Bird, son of the founder of Bird's Custard Company. He enlarged the house, adding the library and a sizeable conservatory to the east, and had Blossomfield Road moved northwards, away from the entrance front, and built a new entrance lodge at the end of the re-configured drive. He also employed Robert Bridgeman to ornament the house with statuary and furnished it with an extensive art collection which included paintings and also with panels of C16 and C17 Flemish stained glass, which survive in situ. Alfred Bird became M.P. for Wolverhampton West in 1910. In 1920 he was knighted and in 1922, the year of his death, he was made a baronet. His widow lived on at Tudor Grange until her death in 1943 and the house is believed to have been used as a Red Cross auxiliary hospital during and after the Second World War. In 1946 the house was bought by Warwickshire County Council and became a school for children with special needs until 1976 when it became part of Solihull Technical College.
Bird was a Gloucestershire-born man who registered as a pharmacist in Birmingham in 1842 and opened an experimental chemist's shop in Bull Street. Bird is most famous, however, for his custard creations - as the inventor of egg-free custard in 1837, to be precise. Bird died in 1878. His former premises, The Custard Factory in Digbeth. The five acre site was redeveloped from 1992 as an arts and media complex.