Vintage UK Newspaper & Magazine Adverts (Vol.2)

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

Can't remember the last time I read a newspaper, lol. I used to buy one every morning, but it became a distressing experience, lol. I've just got into magazines again. Well, old one's. I've recently started buying the old fangoria mags. Terry marsh! I liked watching his fights. I think he was suspect no1 in the Frank Warren shooting.😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

I read a lot more magazines than I used to, but I never buy them anymore; I have a Readly subscription, so I get to read LOADS of them on my 10" tablet.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

@@RetroSteveUK I meant depressing experience, not distressing, lol. I got sick of reading about wars and such like. I never got around to reading on my Tablet. I like reading books and my wife bought me one of those kindle fires? I'm sure that was the name of them. Where you could read books and magazines on them. For some reason I just never got around to it. You've inspired me to look into it though. I recently got back into Stephen king films, books, miniseries and short stories, but I wouldn't have thought about reading them on my Tablet. Cheers, buddy. Gonna look into that today.👍

[@RetroSteveUK]

I'd recommend trying the free trial of Readly. It's quite pricey at about a tenner a month but my wife can legitimately share the subscription with her own profile on a different device, and I never buy magazines anymore - those can be about £6 a pop.

[@Snoopy_2607]

Loved Look-In....only 24p. 😂 Harry Secombe was the spitting image of my lovely Grandad. ❤ My mum used to work for the Sunday Telegraph. 👍

[@RetroSteveUK]

24p was an easy pocket money purchase back then.

[@lilac9639]

I'd forgotten how " urgent" tv advertising used to be! 12 min of info shouted at you at breakneck speed lol 😮

[@gwheregwhizz]

To quote Jim Hacker: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is. And to quote Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big...

[@RetroSteveUK]

🤣🤣👍

[@Matty112uk]

Another great selection. I remember buying quite a few of those Discovery publications, including the Elizabeth I one shown in the ad. They were excellent Shame I didn't keep them :(

[@RetroSteveUK]

I know the feeling; I had a full set of INPUT magazines from Marshall Cavendish, binders and all. Learnt so much about programming from those mags. Gave them all away and now wish I'd kept them.

[@thefrecklepuny]

The Standard ad reminded me of the Morecambe and Wise "Morny Standit" sketch!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Same here. It was the first thing that entered my head when I saw this.

[@OhioticketswithRobert]

Very interesting things you all received in your British newspapers.

[@twinsuns957]

Do you remember an advert from the early 2000s that featured somebody sat on a balcony at a house in some exotic Mediterranean location, while watching a frog jump along the balcony in slow motion, and the background music was some ragtime/vaudeville piano based song featuring the words 'Sunday Morning Tonight' in the lyrics and sung in a strong cockney accent? I only ever saw it once, somewhere between 2000 - 2006, but I definitely didn't imagine it cause I still remember it vividly in my mind's eye, however I just can't recall what company it was advertising, I think it might've been a loans company or some travel firm but I'm not too sure tbh. Just wondering if you might have it on one of your compilations, or if you know somebody else who might have a copy of it, cause I've looked absolutely everywhere for it with no luck, but if you happen to have any information about it then that would be much appreciated, cheers. :)

[@RetroSteveUK]

Worth asking. That's a LOT of detail and yet I can't remember anything like that at all. If it ever shows up when I'm gathering ads, I'll recognise that straight away so It'll go straight in a collection.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Cilla advertising The Sun is a bit ironic considering that the Sun was about as popular on Merseyside as a leaking truckload of sewage following its libels of Liverpool supporters after Hillsborough

[@CreamedCheesed]

Ring binders and strange tonal shifts. Upbeat jingles advertising The Standard with a rail crash on the front cover and Care Bear stickers following a boxer's diagnosis of epilepsy. Let's take a moment to remember of those half filled ring binders, abandoned after the sharp price increase at issue no.4, languishing in charity shops for decades to come.

[@shane-porter]

Haha. I remember reading The Joy of Knowledge as a kid. Nostalgic as always. Appreciate the upload. 👍

[@mgthestrange9098]

That discover history advert always stuck in my head, I think it was Elizabeth I with her black teeth that stayed with me.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Hard to forget that.

[@thomascook578]

What they never told us in those days were, how many parts were in those mags. TV times when it was just itv and c4, we only ever got it at xmas

[@RetroSteveUK]

I only buy TV/Radio Times mags at Christmas now, and that's just to put on the coffee table for decoration.

[@thomascook578]

@@RetroSteveUK it, abdcwoolies indicated Xmas was coming, looking up what you were going to watch during the xmas holidays

[@AndreiTupolev]

Joy of Knowledge builds up week by week into an indispensable encyclopedia ... in 120 weekly parts. So if you're hoping for information about something beginning with W or Y you'll have to wait a bit, I'm afraid 🤔

[@RetroSteveUK]

Such was life before the internet. Can you imagine that now!? 😳

[@garrylawless3550]

Ah, a great selection. I remember us getting Microwave Know How, we still only used our Microwave for porridge, hot chocolate and Jacket Potatoes! Another great selection Steve. 👍🏻😊

[@nellyfett2681]

Never understood the Readers Digest draw - they send me numbers and then I have to send them back - why couldn't they just automatically enter me! I also always disliked Darren Day - mainly because he was dating my crush Anna Friel!

[@BigBadJon101]

£60,000 dream home? How old is this ad? But you try and tell the young ones, and they won’t believe you!

[@rich_edwards79]

Right? I paid that for my Victorian terrace in Leeds... in 2005!

[@RcNerd]

Roland Rat yeeeeee

[@RetroSteveUK]

I was thinking recently, the closest to a modern Roland Rat equivalent would probably be Hacker T. Dog now.

[@RetroEli82]

Extra Extra, read all about it. Steve(Time Travel TV) posts another instant classic, this one's definitely in the books. Superb as always 👍🏽😎👍🏽🗞️ 📰