A Stroll Down Memory Lane For Us Older Brits

[billd766]

For some reason I have the R Whites advert running through my head for the last couple of days and even my son has caught it.

This morning I went on to Google and found the YouTube of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBa7eay6Fo

After it finished as usual the screen came up with other videos of UK adverts from long ago and far away such as

Heinekin

Sadly most of these are non PC in this day and age.

There are hundreds more out there especially when you get bored with the politcal threads on TVF.

[Penkoprod]

Reel Budda !!!

[Penkoprod]

Talking of PC adverts, i wonder what reaction "get it inside thee, boy" would get these days?

[StreetCowboy]

How could one get bored of the political threads on TV?

That opening intro from the Hovis advert, looking down Memory Lane... I can see your house...

there's plenty of us seem to live down that street...

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[chiang mai]

Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset, courtesy of Ridley Scott, my hasn't he done well.

[billd766]

Talking of PC adverts, i wonder what reaction "get it inside thee, boy" would get these days?

I used to ride a bike like that when I was a young lad doing deliveries for old mr Shergold at the bottom of our road.

He was a grocer and greengrocer and he sold most things.

I can also remember the big Berkel food slicer in the shop with probably a 12 inch blade, hand driven of course.

I used to get 10 shillings for a Saturday from 8 am till finish around 5.30 or 6 and 30 minutes for lunch.

You could get things on tick until payday and he knew most of the kids and their parents too.

Sadly it was in another age and he is long gone as is shop.

Progress, what a wonderful thing, isn't it?

[HeavyDrinker]

Blimey Bill, how old are you? You sound like my dad......

[billd766]

Blimey Bill, how old are you? You sound like my dad......

I am 68 and relatively healthy.

I do have 2 sons, one here who is nearly 8 and the other in the UK who is 34.

What did you say your name was again sonny?

[HeavyDrinker]

Can you roll your cap?

[beano2274]

My best memory is the one that was "will it be chips, fried onion rings. you'll have to wait and see"

Birds Eye steakhouse

[phuturatica]

A little bit before my time.

[StreetCowboy]

Talking of PC adverts, i wonder what reaction "get it inside thee, boy" would get these days?

I used to ride a bike like that when I was a young lad doing deliveries for old mr Shergold at the bottom of our road.

He was a grocer and greengrocer and he sold most things.

I can also remember the big Berkel food slicer in the shop with probably a 12 inch blade, hand driven of course.

I used to get 10 shillings for a Saturday from 8 am till finish around 5.30 or 6 and 30 minutes for lunch.

You could get things on tick until payday and he knew most of the kids and their parents too.

Sadly it was in another age and he is long gone as is shop.

Progress, what a wonderful thing, isn't it?

I blame you, for moving away from your village. If people would stay where they were put, and not buy these newfangled electricaltelephone things, and go down the pub for a sing-song instead of watching bloody Animal Planet on the TV, we could all still be working split shifts in the pit 'n' mill.

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[Penkoprod]

My best memory is the one that was "will it be chips, fried onion rings. you'll have to wait and see"

Birds Eye steakhouse

And they were F£$%&*G 'orrible!!!!!

All soggy inside when you cut into them

[chiang mai]

My best memory is the one that was "will it be chips, fried onion rings. you'll have to wait and see"

Birds Eye steakhouse

And they were F£$%&*G 'orrible!!!!!

All soggy inside when you cut into them

They were pretty sad and digusting things I agree, but to be honest the contents were probably not that bad when compared to the modern day equivelent and at the risk of upseting UG again dare I compare them to McD!

[mjj]

I was hoping I wouldn't know what this thread was about, unfortunately I remember these ads. :-(

[Scully]

Can you roll your cap?

Or play the spoons ?

[endure]

[tutsiwarrior]

Stephen Fry in the UK tv advert in the late 80s and stentorian and well dressed with: 'and you managed to realise an sound return on your investment?' and then became absurdly desperate and biting his socks: 'oh, get us one of those, please...' and then the straight man: 'shan't' and then: 'you're rotten, you are...' chewing his socks...

I had just arrived in the UK and thought: 'if they got good humor here in advertising they can't be bad...'...the thais ain't bad in that regard, and then confidence was raised for the future...

Edited July 2, 2012 by tutsiwarrior

[billd766]

Can you roll your cap?

Sadly that is not in my skillset.

My Dad used to wear a cheesecutter cap and his hearing aid was the size of an android phone and about 5 times as heavy.

[Pseudolus]

Quality thread OP

One of my faves;

[Pseudolus]

Also -

Classic one from Carling;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVSBtivbUs4

[Pseudolus]

And of course....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUSpjZEhNU8

Edited July 3, 2012 by Pseudolus

[transam]

We did have some brill ads, for sure. AND l own up to waking up at 2pm on a regular basis and creeping down stairs to the fridge for a COLD Mars bar and a tin of Coke. She thought l was mad, didn't care cos she didn't deplete my supply.

[onionluke]

[onionluke]

[StreetCowboy]

Reel Budda !!!

Sorry, I'm stuck with this mental image of Transam illegal drag-racing down memory lane, and then the Z-cars music keeps popping into my head. I can just see Transam getting lifted by Brian Blessed... though I can't really imagine Ford Zephyrs in a car chase...

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[JUDAS]

A little bit before my time.

I wouldn't expect a lady to say anything else

[rgs2001uk]

Isnt YouTube great,

Another classic,

Pity it tasted like piss.

[billd766]

Talking of PC adverts, i wonder what reaction "get it inside thee, boy" would get these days?

I used to ride a bike like that when I was a young lad doing deliveries for old mr Shergold at the bottom of our road.

He was a grocer and greengrocer and he sold most things.

I can also remember the big Berkel food slicer in the shop with probably a 12 inch blade, hand driven of course.

I used to get 10 shillings for a Saturday from 8 am till finish around 5.30 or 6 and 30 minutes for lunch.

You could get things on tick until payday and he knew most of the kids and their parents too.

Sadly it was in another age and he is long gone as is shop.

Progress, what a wonderful thing, isn't it?

I blame you, for moving away from your village. If people would stay where they were put, and not buy these newfangled electricaltelephone things, and go down the pub for a sing-song instead of watching bloody Animal Planet on the TV, we could all still be working split shifts in the pit 'n' mill.

SC

We used to have jam butty mines in Dorset.

[Thaddeus]

We used to have jam butty mines in Dorset.

The Jam Butty mines were in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, manned by Dicky Mint and the other Diddy Men.

How tickled I am.