Classic British Adverts from the 1950s and 1960s Part 1/2

[@TheDanieljhenderson]

£100 a year for life! I wonder if any of the winners of that competition are still receiving their annual £100

[@thesupergreenjudy]

Well apparently it could mean real security for your retirement - they would surely be living the life of riley today..lol

[@luisreyes1963]

£100 a year certainly won't go far in that Post-Thatcher British economy. 💷

[@jmichael4002]

@@luisreyes1963yes but definitely worth more than if we had had a greedy, selfish socialist nation

[@spmoran4703]

Some of the ads were like mini musicals.

[@kingporter67]

Awesome British Adverts from the 1950's and 1960's decades!

[@hedgemist691]

Just what I needed. Thank you.

[@keithnaylor1981]

TONY HANCOCK's 50s radio programmes are regularly on BBC Radio 4 Extra (UK). Also stars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jaques and Bill Kerr. Brilliant!

[@spmoran4703]

I listen to them.

[@heatheryovanoff7101]

The Hamlet cigars adverts were wonderful. Also the Shhhhhhh Schweppes. And the "Go to work on an egg".

[@CuppaTeaandaSliceoCake]

Wonderful. ... thank you very much indeed.

[@hartnell1000]

What memories, thank you so much.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams

[@davidgibbs7232]

£2500.A trip round the world eh.A week in Blackpool now.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

3:10 - Whenever my nephews get on my nerves, I always light a ‘Hamlet’ cigar.

[@stevewiles7132]

I wonder if anyone is still getting the 100 pounds

[@Jesusexplains]

DEFINITELY the answer to the FIRST QUESTION is “Take to £2,500 and buy a choice block of land!” Just imagine taking £100 a year for the rest of your life in the 1960’s. In 2020 it wouldn’t pay for a decent hotel room, let alone a holiday abroad 🤨

[@derekbrandon2802]

i know it's kinda randomly asking but does anybody know a good place to stream newly released movies online ?

[@marcelcasey5008]

@Derek Brandon I watch on flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

[@Jesusexplains]

@@derekbrandon2802 Only NetFlix 🤷‍♂️

[@derekbrandon2802]

@Marcel Casey thank you, signed up and it seems like a nice service :D Appreciate it !

[@marcelcasey5008]

@Derek Brandon You are welcome :D

[@annaoneal4709]

These are brilliant!

[@deewaters8994]

We still have a Twink box, reminds us of my Mum.

[@jrgboy]

Nice to see Nicholas Parsons as an alien in the Blue Cars ad.

[@leelinden8107]

Mini Mort 2 Was Nicholas Parsons ever *not* seen as an alien? (Sorry about that, I was influenced by The Goodies at a tender age). ;-)

[@keithnaylor1981]

Wonderful! The ads were so much more fun in those days but that alien woman wants a good slap! Does anyone know anyone who won the Drene/Gleem (or the Readers Digest prize draw) money? I thought not!

[@annmitchell4663]

Sammy Davis..lovely guy.

[@jackwatson3944]

How do you know.

[@luisreyes1963]

Sammy Davis Jr. for Shell Petrol. ⛽

[@stephenlang3135]

Such innocent times.

[@dhdavidholloway]

Tony Hancock reading his lines as usual. He was still great though

[@locutus155]

The reading of Hancock's lines (on screen at least) didn't actually start until the BBC television episode "The Blood Donor'" where he'd been in a car crash just before and was having difficulty remembering his lines. Prompt boards were put up around the set and it worked so well that Hancock, a man who always found learning line laborious, chose to go down this route for the rest of his career.

[@davids8449]

I think from time to time he would climb into the bottle

[@garethbramley1]

Jim Dale in the Nux Bar ad??? / Patrick Cargill in Hamlet. The Turkish Delight and Flake ads are great. Shell is good too - 1964. Barry Gray did the electronic music for the Blue Cars commercial with Nicholas Parsons. I dread to think what he thought of it - the commercial I mean.

[@Oakleaf700]

Patrick Cargill was our next door but one neighbour in East Sheen - he had a Rolls Royce that someone defaced {his boyfriend, Dad thinks it was!}

[@SuperGingerBickies]

Peter Sellers voicing the PG Tips Tea ad.

[@luisreyes1963]

Who made that weirdo ad, Eugene Ionesco?

[@johnskilling3989]

I want a nux bar! 😄

[@rl4441]

Wow, i didn't know rice krispies were that old

[@Boys-AllTheStuffAndMore]

Rice Krispies are nearly 100 years old.

[@caseyrouse9116]

3Boys2009 - All The Stuff And More! Wow are they still edible?

[@Boys-AllTheStuffAndMore]

They are.

[@neilpower60]

Twink soap, can't help laughing at that name, means something quite different to a gay man

[@leelinden8107]

Neil Mackinnon As a straight man who was around in the 60s, who's still around, and who knows at least *some* slang, I second that emotion! ;-)

[@samsum3738]

Ooooerr

[@susanleitch8649]

It was also the name of a home perm kit.

[@Steve20127]

Nicholas Parsons as an alien!! (Anything for money)

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

Nux was like eating chocolate gravel.

[@whoam42a1]

A young Nicholas Parsons in the last advert Blue Cars

[@luisreyes1963]

Rather snappy Kellogg's Corn Flakes advert, eh? 😁

[@northernlad52]

brilliant

[@victoriaharbach5968]

free vinyl from kelloggs rice krispies is cool

[@abirosecollin8588]

£2500 could never buy you a new fast car now

[@jamesbuckingham.2935]

It was about 3 years wages then. 3 years wages would buy you a fast car now.

[@OofusTwillip]

£100 a month for life? What happened after Britain changed to decimal currency in 1971?

[@brendancarroll9376]

Gotta get me some ‘Twink’

[@countrybumpkin339]

They forgot about inflation.

[@RetroGUY77]

Do you think Drene are still giving the winners £100 on a yearly basis?

[@agfagaevart]

Today, you could still go to paris for about 90 quid return.

[@leelinden8107]

Mini Mort 2 Yeah. sure, all the ones who are still around half a century later...

[@donroberts2126]

Apparently, £100 then is worth just over £3250 in today's money...

[@paulmchugh8695]

What fun xxx

[@hebneh]

100 pounds a year was really going to do all that for you?

[@antonydandrea]

Is anyone out there still with that 100 pound for life?

[@BantuEducation]

How did we manage back then without cultural enrichers?

[@11carbuff19572011]

Might well have been a very young Bobby Crush learning to play the Air on a G String before Hughie Green got hold of him.

[@paulnewey8258]

If you can’t get through, keep trying !

[@davids8449]

Terrible to think £100 People spend on a little meal out in 2024

[@leebritnell2405]

It is Jim dale

[@keithnaylor1981]

Do YOU want to 'dance the night away'? Ring Trafalgar 7112, ask for Lovely Lil. Tell her you're a 'swinger' and can she book you in for the 'Rumba' or the 'two-step' special! She'll know what you mean! Go ONE STEP FURTHER with LIL! Money back if not delighted!

[@antonydandrea]

I watched this after seeing the post raison bran family guy advert to see of 1950s ads were really like that....they are

[@richarddahl8885]

WOW A £100 A YEAR FOR LIFE !!!! IM GONNA SPEND SPEND SPEND BLESS THEM !

[@ThatsnewsTV]

There are people who, all these years later, getting their £100 a year for life. In 1954 the average yearly wage in the UK was £414, though many would not have been earning that much.

[@PockyFiend]

You need to get this fixed. Every time I try to watch it, I get the "no connection, tap to retry" message, even though my connection is good.

[@ulxella84]

Same w me:/

[@keithnaylor1981]

PockyFiend - working OK in July 2020. See my comment above!

[@michaelgilbey341]

And most of these products are still available.

[@paulmchugh8695]

Don’t complain about ads today lol 😂 they were shite in the “ good old days “ lol 😂

[@susanmoran5226]

Yes, truly shite.

[@agfagaevart]

"A fabulous holiday EVERY YEAR!" For 100 quid??? I dunno :-/

[@OrganMusicYT]

Equivalent to roughly £2500 in today's money

[@robertlandonijr2481]

Is that Tony ( the H is silent ) Hancock on the Eggs ad ??

[@SimonNoina]

Certainly is!....lovely to see for an old 'Ancock fan like me... & you by the look of it! :)

[@annmitchell4663]

Simon Cox "A PINT..thats almost a armfull..lol

[@leelinden8107]

I seem to recall that the first "haitch" is non-silent in "Hhhhancock's-'Alf-'Our."

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

Yes, he's reprising his character in Hancocks Half Hour, a slightly jaded funny observer of life. If you want to see him at his finest in my opinion, the film The Rebel is great, it really takes the p*** out of the artworld.

[@Amphy002]

Didn't they speak nicely in the 50s. .

[@heatheryovanoff7101]

Just on the telly !

[@OofusTwillip]

That's R.P. (Received Pronunciation). Actors and actresses were taught to speak in those cut-glass, clipped tones. So were broadcasters and those in authority. The BBC trained its on-air staff to only speak with R.P., in order to be the voice of authority.

[@spmoran4703]

My father didnt speak nice . He could get gold medals for swearing.

[@philipsmith1901]

Winning all that was a lot of money in those times

[@Adam-in3wv]

Yea, I wonder who won the competition and if the £100 went up with inflation or stayed at £100

[@barrylenny2814]

The link isn't working. :(

[@tomhaskett5161]

9:28 Nicholas Parsons

[@MrDavey2010]

Such an innocent and uncomplicated world!

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

So true!

[@drsyn9616]

William Franklyn Schhh you know who

[@heinzer69]

Anyone wanna buy some nine bob notes for half a crown each ?

[@mountainmantararua8824]

Did you notice in the " Flake" ad, you never ever get to see them eat it, the camera always pans away. all subsequent flake ads did the same. We all know what happens when you bite into them, they crumble. Turkish delight were much bigger as well, today they are much smaller, they make the wrappers bigger to give the illusion of being bigger. such skullduggery today. Back in the day you got value for money. Well that's my rant for the day. Back to the loony bin.

[@Jarial7]

I loved sugar puffs hated corn flakes

[@mgthestrange9098]

Sugar puffs are rotten now, now called honey monster puffs and have hardly any taste. ☹️

[@Jarial7]

@@mgthestrange9098 your totally right I am 67 years old food in my day though not abundant tasted better it had lots of sugar and salt but nothing tastes the same sugar puffs tastes like sweet wet cardboard

[@abcbcde9985]

Jim Dale 2:30, nut bar commercial? Sounds like him, looks a but like him....

[@BM-pl5wv]

Yes it's Jim Dale!! Well spotted! :)

[@crazybunkum]

Definitely Dale😆

[@Amysbiblereads]

How much was 4/9? Can’t for the life figure out old money lol

[@harleydonski]

About 28p now. 1 shilling (12 old pence) = 5p.

[@Derry_Aire]

@@harleydonski Nope. About 24 1/2p. You're right in that 1s = 5p, so 5s = 25p which is 3d more than 4/9d.

[@paulweir7122]

Amy's Angel Guidance: a close approximation of pre decimal to decimal can be obtained thus; Take the numerals of, eg, 4/9 to read as 49 then divide by 2: result 24.5 new pence. I have noticed that folk not conversant with the pronunciation and spelling of ' old money ' use eg, six pence as two separate words when referring to the old ' tanner' (2.5 new pence) instead of sixpence, and they stress pence which is wrong.

[@nicholasroberts6954]

A young Jim Dale goes Nux ! And Hancock bags it, head and shoulders above the rest. No Birds-eye peas ? "Fresh as the moment when the pod went pop" . . they don't have copy writers like that now ! No Life-Buoy soap, No Macleans Toothpaste "The ring of confidence" - they were early '60s. Turkish Delight was early mid-60s - (The only delight the Turks get nowadays is the prospect of sending 2 million Syrian refugees to Europe). The Hamlet, Schweppes tonic water and PG Tips ("Avez-vous un cuppa ?) endured until the 1980s !

[@paulweir7122]

Birdseye and Lifebuoy, why the hyphens? Colgate had ' the ring of confidence '.

[@NotAnIlluminatiSpy]

Why is everyone dancing?

[@donroberts2126]

Because it was during that time that the Prime Minister, Harold McMillan told us that we'd "never had it so good!"...

[@dorlow3765]

4.23 WTF! ARE YOU CRAZY. MILK THEN SUGAR!😤

[@danw7008]

So you only want sugar at the top? The way we do it is better! Try

[@jackwatson3944]

Wow just imagine what you could do with 100 pounds a year 4 life.

[@nichloasrich5293]

Ston e me it's hancock

[@samsum3738]

The lad himself .

[@dangerman8625]

We're did they get these adverts from talk about outdated, the Mars, aliens, sound Japanese.!

[@MRBEANWANABEE]

Happines is a cigar wtf??????????????

[@santiagomaciel588]

Snug as a bug on a drug