American Reacts to Vintage UK Christmas Adverts | Part 1 🇬🇧
Vložit
- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- I'm watching some vintage UK Christmas adverts for the first time, and I really enjoyed it! Look for part 2 tomorrow. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!
00:00 - Intro
02:12 - Reaction
18:36 - Outro
Link to original video: • Vintage UK Christmas T...
Support my channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sogal_yt?fan_...
Follow me on social media:
Instagram: / sogal.yt
Twitter: / sogal_yt
Facebook Page: / sogal-104043461744742
Facebook Group: / 238616921241608
My Star Trek Podcast: www.tribblespodcast.com/
Join my Discord: / discord
If you want to send any snail mail:
SoGal
P.O. Box 34913
Memphis, TN 38184
USA
E-Mail: sogal.ytube@gmail.com
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
#Christmas #UK #ChristmasCommercials - Zábava
Which ad was your favorite? Like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video 👍🏻 Follow me on social media, and join my Discord & Patreon:
❤ Patreon: www.patreon.com/sogal_yt?fan_landing=true
🐕 Instagram: instagram.com/sogal.yt/
🏀 Twitter: twitter.com/SoGal_YT
⚽ Facebook Page: facebook.com/SoGal-104043461744742
🏖 Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/238616921241608
💥 Discord: discord.gg/amWWc6jcC2
🖖 My Star Trek Podcast: www.tribblespodcast.com/
That deliberately bad "singer" was Neil Innes---The Seventh UNofficial Member of Monty Python :)
@@Isleofskye probably also the 38th Beatle
Well, even I was the 34th one....:)
My favorite was your reaction to the Heinekan beer ad with the little bird. IT WAS PRICELESS!
The one about eating turkey every day for a week to use it up was part of a long running series of ads featuring the same family who became known as The Oxo Family. The mother was a popular actress and writer, Lynda Bellingham, who appeared in many drama and comedy series over the years. It is a standing joke over here of eating turkey leftovers every day after Christmas and trying to make different meals with it to finish it off. Most people buy a turkey that's about 4 times too big for what they need for Christmas dinner !
Also the Turkish reference is a joke on Kebabs being a traditional Turkish dish. Kebab shops (takeaway food) are very common in the UK.
The fellow in the penultimate `ad` wearing the garish red jumper and singing "Magic Moments" (And got pelted with snowballs) was Neil Innes - who worked both with The Beatles (Magical Mystery Tour) and the Monty Python troupe!
And created The Rutles, the movie of which features George Harrison IIRC.
Yes, we did have Blockbuster video in the UK. That and Woolworths are 2 of the shops featured in the top 10 British stores that don't exist anymore on WatchmojoUK.
Seeing those Quality Street and Roses chocolate tin adverts takes me back. They used to be massive and the empty tins used to carry cakes to school or work. They're in plastic tubs now and much smaller in comparison, as well as newer chocolate selections Celebrations and Heroes. It doesn't feel like a British Christmas without at least one of those chocolate tins or tubs.
You could buy virtually anything from Woolworths from Pick n Mix sweets, music, clothing, kitchenware ,luggage, knitting wool or electrical items, to having your photo taken in the photo booth and weighing yourself on a giant set of scales! Most towns had a Woollies as they were fondly called. So it was so sad when they closed. Enjoying your reaction to what looks like ads or commercials from mainly the 1980's. Wishing you, Scarlet and Roger all the best for Christmas and for 2022.
Ok, who can remember those tins of sweets being THAT big?
they started at 3lb and slowly got smaller, now they are 750g they take a few out each year to make it seem better value for the same price. sneaky!
About £9 for a 5lb tin back in the day. These days you are lucky to get a fraction of the weight for about a fiver.
@@ianprince1698 I was home for the first time in 10 years for Christmas this year, and could not believe how small they have gotten.
Thank you, this was awesome! I'm a Brit, born and raised in London UK and moved to Chicago in 2000. So, after 21 years here, I am now Americanized, but I do still miss the traditional British Christmas celebration, because we make it last longer than here in America. Christmas decorations also decorate the living room, not just the tree, and the tradition dinner s treated as a party time (hence the paper hats and crackers. Chicken or Turkey is traditional on Christmas Day, and we'd always have cold meat and pickle with veggies for Boxing Day (Dec 26th) Hence the reference to eating poultry for the next few weeks after the holidays, just because there was SO much left over. I grew up watching these commercials, and from my memory, they appear to be from the 1980's. Woolworth's was exactly the same as the store here in the US. Sweets (candy), records, hardware, clothing, food, fragrances etc. Brut 33 was a very popular deodorant, the bald guy advertising it was the British Boxer named Henry Cooper. The commercial for breakfast cereal being left out for Santa was a good one. In the US, we leave milk and cookies for Santa, but in the UK, we leave him a glass of Sherry and a Mince Pie (A fruit filled pastry) something which I miss dearly. Once again, thank you for this fantastic trip down memory lane. Merry Christmas to you
Brut 33 smelt awful! The other man in that ad was the motorbike racer Barry Sheene, who was notorious for the number of broken bones he suffered.
@@arwelp I got brut 33 for Christmas thanks lol
A newsagent is a shop that sells newspapers, magazines plus other things, stationary, sweets (candy) etc
I always imagine it to be similar to a 7 11 in the US.
I’m 67, so not only remember these adverts, but remember a time in the UK before tv. I am, at this very moment, on Dec 27, making turkey masala. ….. There’s loads left. 😊⛄️🎄❄️
For those too young to remember, the tagline for the Heineken adverts was "Heineken refreshes the parts other beers can't reach" They changed "parts" to "partridges" for the Christmas advert.
In the UK Christmas was always associated with a tin of Quality Street. They first appeared in 1936 and were made by Mackintosh the toffee makers. The tins and promotional material, not to mention the name itself, used characters from J M Barrie's play 'Quality Street.' The tins were always decorated with an English lady and soldier of the 1830s. The 'Quality Street' play included a schoolboy called Arthur Wellesley Tomson and also a Waterloo veteran. Rowntree-Mackintosh were taken over by Nestle in the 1980s in what the stock market refers to as a 'dawn raid.' The 1830s lady and soldier have long gone; only the name 'Quality Street' remains.
We only started having TV ads in 1955, when commercial TV started (The first one was for Gibbs toothpaste). Before that we had just one channel of BBC.
I’m reminiscing on the size of the Roses and Quality Street tins! You used to use them as cake tins at school! Unlike the pathetic slim plastic tubs they sell today that are about half the size!
If there all about reducing plastics these days they should bring the tins back
The Brut 33 ad featured boxer Henry Cooper and motorcycle racer Barry Sheene, both 1970's icons in the UK
The chap in the Fosters Lager ad is Paul 'Crocodile Dundee' Hogan.
‘The great smell of Henry Cooper’
@@AtheistOrphan 🤣 🤣
It's amazing how much adverts can influence you. Even after all these years, I still won't have a chicken sandwich without Hellman's Mayonaise - all because of that ad campaign.
TV Times was a TV Guide as you say. Back in the 80s it was tradition to buy the TV times and Radio Times. TV times listed ITV and Channel 4, and Radio Times (despite it's name) showed BBC1 and BBC2 (as well as radio schedules). We also only had four channels (actually three in the very early 80s).
Two in my day
The BBC was originally only Radio. The radio schedules were listed in their magazine called Radio Times. The BBC is and always been non commercial. Strictly no advertising! Funded by a compulsory license fee. It was also the first to provide TV programs in the 1930s. It retained its TV schedules in the Radio Times as well as the radio schedules. The BBC continued with radio during WW2 but closed down its TV operations until the war ended. Post war it was a single and the only TV channel until 1955.
ITV (Independent Tele Vision) was a group of commercial regional TV companies that started in 1955 and operated under the ITV umbrella. The very first advert shown on British TV was for a toothpaste. ITV produced their own magazine for their TV schedules and, because the BBC continued to call both their radio and TV schedules magazine "The Radio Times", decided to cleverly call their own magazine "The TV Times".
At this time (1955) the BBC had 3 Radio Channels. The Light Program, the Home Service and the Third Program in addition to a single TV Channel. ITV had a single commercial TV Channel comprised of various individual regional channels (one for each region).
At this time there was no commercial radio. The 3rd TV Channel did not start until 1964 and was allocated to the BBC. At this time they came up with the original idea of calling the 2 TV Channels BBC1 and BBC2.
Radio Caroline was the first "Pirate" commercial Radio station in the 1960s. It operated from a ship in International waters off the East Coast of England in the North Sea into Britain. It led to a number of "Pirate" operations that were so successful that it began a frantic rush to set up land based commercial operations all over the place. This, in turn, forced the BBC into major changes to its Radio operations. Scrapping the previous 3 and renaming, revising and adding Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, and gradually all its many regional and local Radio stations.
Breakfast TV (BBC) and TV AM (ITV) did not start until the 1980s, as did Channel 4 TV (commercial) and some minor Cable TV. During this time 24 hour TV came into being. SKY (subscription) started about 1990 and Channel 5 TV (commercial) in mid 1990s. Thereafter the mind boggles. The quantity escalates and the quality tends to degenerate.
Merry Christmas Sarah! The Milk Tray ad wasn't their usual type. Usually it would consist of a long action sequence where a James Bond type character would be seen doing Bond type stuff, sking, sky-diving or running though a forest avoiding guard dogs. He would climb up a wall into a woman's bedroom and leave a box of Milk Tray with the card seen in the ad you saw followed by the tag line 'and all because the lady loves Milk Tray'.
Woolworths was a department store found in just about every town and city. They sold sweets, chocolates, records, singles and albums, VHS pre-recorded and blanks, DVDs, greeting cards, electrical items. They basically sold a little of everything. They went bust in 2008. Thousands lost their jobs.
Can't believe we have to explain Woolworths to an American. Although Woolies felt British it began in New York.
I’m surprised you’ve never heard of FW Woolworths it’s an American five and dime that opened in New York in the late 1800’s and made its way across the pond, it’s an online store only now but it’s also the owner of Foot locker.
Funny to remember how popular it was to give blank cassettes and videos as presents to be able to record music and tv shows for future enjoyment. How times change.
15:31 Funny you should say that about digestives. They were originally marketed, in the 19thC, as a health food. But now they are just the universal, everyday biscuit.
Woolworths, affectionately known as Woolies, was a chain that sold a variety of goods from sweets to clothing to electronics. I bought my super Nintendo from there back in the 90s. Sadly it no longer exists.
The Bisto ad implied everyone had mountains of turkey left over and had to be used in different meals. Peckish means to be hungry. Kebabs are a meat and vegetable dish served on skewers.
Oh and Paxo is a sage and onion stuffing.
Newzforce was a newsagents, basically a small shop selling papers, magazines, sweets, toys, tobacco.
Im from the UK and loved seeing those old adverts,very nostalgic😊
A news agent is basically what you would call a convenience store in the US a small shop that would sell the basics plus newspapers magazines and greeting cards etc. merry Christmas xx
It's the Heineken partridge I was rooting for. I worked in an office that had a resident Partridge, some one must have been feeding him. He was always in the doorway every morning, they are much cuter up close in real life than on TV. How anyone could shoot them is beyond me
Oddly, I was watching this the other day, getting a massive shot of nostalgia mixed with depression of the celebs and business that are no more.
The joke is the turkey is such a big bird that you're still eating it a week later. You've had it served every way possible, everyone is sick of eating it - and there's still more of it left!!
Yea. If you have your last turkey sandwich for lunch on 3rd of January, you are doing well.
That is why I went traditional as soon as I left home, and had goose instead.
Turkey for Christmas came from the US as they are far cheaper to rear (so much more profit margin) and as we don't have thanksgiving (which, incidentally was first celebrated with Norfolk turkeys, brought over to the new world with them), we ended up using them for Christmas instead.
Woolworths was originally a US shop. The UK Woolworths eventually became its own business separate from the US. It became a UK institution with a shop in every town and city until it didn't know what it really was. it closed down in what was one of the UK's biggest UK retail closures. It tried to sell a bit of everything e.g. Greeting cards books children's clothing, DIY goods, CDs, computer games, Sweets etc.
A newsagent is any shop that sells newspapers. Usually a small local shop that also sells other essentials bread, milk etc.
The exact same Corn Flakes ad also ran in Canada in the mid-80s? late-80s? I can't quite remember, but I had an intense moment of nostalgia when I saw it. The kids weren't British, though, so it must either be a UK ad that was redubbed for North America (or at least Canada), or a North American ad that was redubbed for Britain. You learn something new every day.
Felt very. Strange hearing British accents on it. And I’m from Ireland
A Newsagent is generally a small corner shop (convenience store) where you buy your newspaper and things like bread, milk, eggs etc.
Woolworths (department store that sold everything from penny sweets to kids toys, prams, records, stationary, electronics, toasters, allsorts and it was cheap ish.)
Paxo ( sage and onion stuffing served with either chicken or turkey)
NEEB (north east electricity board)
Back in the 1980s in the UK, mayonnaise was still a slightly exotic thicker alternative to salad cream. Salad cream was only ever used on salads, which were only made of some tired bits of lettuce, a bit of cucumber and a tomato, maybe a bit of cheese, and only ever eaten in summer. Those with a liking for foreign foods like mayonnaise started using that instead of salad cream on their salads. To get an idea of what salad cream is like, you can make something similar by mixing some malt vinegar into some mayonnaise.
I was born in the 50s and we ate salads all year round, my mom used salad cream in lots of things, mashed egg with creamy salad cream for picnic sandwiches, mix in tinned salmon or tuna to give a tangy kick, or just salad cream sandwiches if you didn't want the obligatory jam sandwich in between meals, I still prefer salad cream to Mayonnaise(too bland)
@@W0rdsandMus1c I remember salad cream sandwiches, but salad all year round? How odd! :)
@@wbertie2604 🤣x
Americans spread mayonaise on sandwiches rather than butter
@@stephenpitt6363 if I'm making a chicken sandwich I use mayonnaise, but no butter.
I love how it's 80% alcohol adverts, we really are a nation of beer lovers
But clearly not statisticians.
I just wish the prices were still the same! and those Quality Street tins I remember them as massive as a kid, but now they are just 2/3rd's the size.
A 14inch tv! Wow!
Argos was a shop, you go in look through their catalogue, get a slip and write a number down then hand to the counter and then wait to collect.
And if they were out of stock as tended to happen in pre-Christmas shopping shopping rush you could lave a reservation for pickup when stock came in. That was in pre-mass Internet of the early 80's.
Still going now, although nowadays you can order online and save whatever you were shopping for.
Stock shortages still happens though
Newsagent: shop selling newspapers. effectively same as corner shop, village shop, small shop for everyday items
Oh my. I'm in love with you and your channel right now. You are taking me right back to the Christmases of my childhood! This is a roll call of celebrity voices and faces, of brands and shop names, not to mention prices, that are no longer with us or markedly different.
Mayonnaise has long been associated with salads in the UK, thus it is thought of as a summery food by most, though it can of course be used all year round.
Paper party hats are only really a thing here because they're tucked into Christmas crackers, to be found on dining tables all over the UK in December. If you aren't already aware, they are cardboard tubes, decorated in festive colours, rigged a tiny strip of the chemicals included in fireworks so that they bang when pulled apart, and containing small toys and bad jokes printed on slips as well as the paper hats. Every diner holds one end and offers the other to the person next to him/her; the goal is to be the one holding the end containing the goodies, thereby "winning" them.
TV Times was the listing of programmes on ITV and Channel 4, whilst Radio Times was the listing for the BBC channels. Decades later both magazines included each others' listings, so it wasn't necessary to buy both any longer.
Indeed, we've also had Blockbuster video rental stores in the UK, now defunct as a result of online streaming and downloadable media.
Paul Hogan's "Crocodile Dundee" movies made him a familiar face in the UK, so it's little wonder that Fosters beer capitalised on that and made him their poster boy for ages.
Woolworths was ironically a division of the US F. W. Woolworth Company until the 1980s when it was sold. It had around 800 department stores all over the UK, but closed at the beginning of 2009 - a casualty of the 2008 financial crisis.
Paxo is a brand of stuffing for turkey, etc.
Newsagents are small corner shops selling mainly newspapers and magazines, though you can also find basic groceries and postal services in them.
It isn't only Christmas parties that the alcohol brands were targeting with their adverts - New Year parties are a big thing in Britain too!
Digestive biscuits are actually a revelation served with a cheese board at the end of a meal... that's just my opinion, which not all Brits would share.
Accurist was a timepiece manufacturer that for years sponsored the automated "talking clock" which you could phone to find out the precise time in the years before digital clocks were widely accessible.
Hello SoGal, Roger, Scarlett and Rudolf.
The Hellman's advert had Bob Carolgees, but I wish you had seen Spit the Dog his puppet.
It used to be salad was a seasonal summer food and most Brits saw mayonnaise like a type of salad cream.
The OXO gravy advert "mum" actress went on to be in the BBC "All Creatures Great and Small" post war episodes. The idea of the turkey left overs is that you bought a massive turkey, to be generous like Scrooge, but the left overs took until New Year to eat. My parents grew up on rationing and in the Thirties depression, so food was not wasted, but made into meals from left overs. I learned in Texas to throw away left overs as they would soon go bad in the heat and food was cheap enough to buy more, so why incur medical bills, which in UK would also be strange for folk used to the NHS not charging at the point of use.
Perhaps the idea that if you end up ill after a lot of alcohol, there will be no bill to pay in UK, just occurred to me. The supermarket staff in Texas were amazed to see my friend and I (when much younger) fill the van with beer each visit. I found a liking for tequila there, but after a few the salt and lemon bit got all blurred.
Woolworths was a US general store type company. It no longer is trading in UK.
NEEB was the North Eastern Electricity Board. Before Mrs Thatcher flogged it off, Britain's nationalised electricity supply was run by regional boards which all operated showrooms which sold electrical appliances, and that was where you went to pay your quarterly electricity bills over the counter. NORWEB served the North West, MANWEB Merseyside and North Wales, SWEB South Wales and so on.
I found it funny how the cartoon bird simply pulled out a beer can from nowhere straight after getting shot lol 😂
the best way to think of A british Christmas Dinner is like your Thanksgiving but at christmas
8:47 Woolworths was an American company. The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store. It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today.
If you’d like to know more about Woolworths look up Frank Winfield Woolworth a U.S entrepreneur and also Barbara Hutton the Woolworth heiress….she was married about seven times,one of whom was the actor Cary Grant…..I think she died virtually penniless in 1979.
Woolies (Woolworths) was a sort of cheapish department store - the business closed a while back in the UK but it's an Australian company and is still going strong elsewhere in the world.
Paxo is a stuffing mix - still the most popular.
A newsagent is a type of shop which sells newspapers (hence newsagent) and other stuff: tobacco; sweets (candies); stationery etc.
There used to be an ongoing joke in the UK about using up the turkey after Christmas - people got sick of it. It came into at least two of those adverts.
Digestives are good - it's a biscuit. Chocolate digestives are even better.
Woolworths is American owned by Barbara hutton... inherited from her new husband who died just aftet they married.however it was her 3rd or 4th husband
It's a joy to see you react to some good ol' British commercials, England sure loves to put out the weird, sometimes bizarre, and definitely now in retrospect, entertaining things at the holiday times,
Merry Christmas to you Sarah, and all of your folks and I wish you a very brilliant day ♥️☃️☃️❄️
I use Helmans all the time, my favourite sandwich is: tin tuna, diced onion/or spring onion, sweet corn and diced red sweet pepper, plus a good helping of Mayonnaise all mixed up and slapped in a crispy French loaf yummy.
Woolworths was a general home and food store in every town .... they went bust during the 2008 onwards crash.
Woolworths was a dime store that originated in the US that only recently died here ironically to the emergence of pound stores here. Much loved shops though for us in the UK.
Yes, the UK Woolworths was originally a division of the F. W. Woolworth Company, founded in Utica, New York in 1879. It was one of the largest retail chains in the world through the 20th century but started to decline in the 1980s and went out of business in 1997 in the US. Stores with the Woolworth name hung on a bit longer in the UK and other places.
Thanks for the blast from the past Sarah. Really enjoyed rewatching these - they brought back SO many memories. Thank you once again.
On the ad your were talking about a digestive, they literally showed you what we call a cookie. Literally, said the word and picked one up.
The magic moments guy at the end is Neil Innis who was in the Monty Python films and was Ron Nasty in The Rutles
The fella in the Brut 33 advert was Henry Cooper well-loved boxer from the UK who famously knocked Muhammad Ali on his feet. They remained close friends for the rest of their lives. Oh and the reason why you Americans don't have Turkey as much at Christmas is that you eat it at Thanksgiving I would guess, anyway Merry Christmas all.
The problem with this sort of video is that I spend as much time watching your reaction as I do to watching the ads. That's not a problem, though, because you have such a relaxed, unaffected presentational style which is entertaining in itself.
WOW fond memories of my childhood.... Love the snowmen wanting a beer then melting... Wishing you a merry Christmas
A newsagents is a shop that sells newspapers, magazines and confectionery. Newsagents nowadays sell staples such as bread, milk and other groceries.
Ssshhhh! Don't tell anyone, but they also sell tobacco products (oh, the horror!)
@@philipr1567
You're right, and some sell alcohol too (double horror!) 😂
6:05 the TV times was a tv listings magazine, but only for the commercial channel ITV. BBC had their own listing mag (called Radio Times, but it covers tv as well.) In those days the channels were permitted to restrict listings informations for the week to their own publications. So people who wanted to plan their viewing ahead had to buy two different magazines every week (to cover all three channels).
Did not the TV Times also include listings for BBC channels. I’m sure the Radio Times had ITV programs in, could be wrong.
@@priestland1 I can't remember when the change happened. I think probably the 90s sometime. Before that, TV Times was only ITV (plus Channel 4 when that happened) and Radio Times was only BBC. (And newspapers were only allowed to show listings for the one day only.) It came to be decided that this was anti-competitive and the rules were loosened up.
Ah thanks for that, was a kid in the 70s when we had the Radio Times in our household, obviously memory not so good now.
Woolworths started in America as a five and dime store and expanded selling low priced item
news agent = corner shop / sweet shop / small shop. normally with in walking distance from your house. normally has sweets, papers, magazines, bread, milk and alcohol.
Turkish joke about turkey kebabs, is because its a Mediterranean / middle eastern dish that originates from the country turkey. if it was a real Turkish kebab it would be lamb meat used.
i'd call them adverts, no matter what country I was in!
Merry Christmas SoGal and the happiest of the coming New Year Rab from Scotland. xx
The voiceover on WH Smith was in Hi de hi
A very merry Christmas SoGal. Welcome to our past in Britain. I remembered most of these ads. Many of the companies no longer exist, sadly, including Woolworths. Most of the faces in the ads and the voiceover artists are well known to us Brits, some of them famous including Denholm Elliott. I look forward to part 2. Good luck with your great channel in 2022. Digestive biscuits are delicious by the way!
Kebabs are a source of nutrition usually eaten in the late evening by drunk people. Sometimes you'll see them being used as SatNavs too.
I think the ads for videos dates these to the second half of the 1980s - though I must admit I can't remember exactly when they became widely available... Your questions paint a picture of the differences between our shopping habits - yes, we had Blockbuster; Woolworths was originally a dime bazaar in Pennsylvania that grew into a department store, albeit laid out more in the style of a supermarket, especially once self-service shopping became the norm in the early 1970s; that went out of business in 2008 and is missed by everybody; and a newsagent is probably best explained in the now slightly old-fashioned context of having specific adjectives for different types of shops, hence,
- a newsagent is shopkeeper who sells newspapers and other published and printed material on behalf of those who produce them (but may also sell other things, such as sweets, cigarettes, greetings cards, stationery, soft drinks, snacks, etc.
- a butcher/y is a shop/keeper selling fresh meat and meat products
- a grocer/y is a shop/keeper selling general foodstuffs
- a greengrocer/y is a shop/keeper selling fresh fruit and vegetables
- a baker/y is a shop/keeper selling fresh bread, cakes and biscuits
- a fishmonger is a shop/keeper selling fresh fish
- a dairy is a shop selling milk, cream, cheese, etc.
- a confectioner/y is a shop/keeper selling sweets
- a tabacconist is a shop/keeper selling tabacco, cigarettes, cigars, snuff, pipes, etc.
- a draper/y is a shop/keeper selling cloth and (usually women's and children's) clothing
- a haberdasher/y is a shop/keeper selling thread, ribbon, buttons, needles, wool, etc.
- a stationer/y is a shop/keeper selling stationery products
- a milliner/y is a shop/keeper selling hats
- a tailor is a shop/keeper selling made to measure and formal clothing
- and no doubt there are others I've forgotten!
My point is that, while many of these are now combined in various ways and therefore their individual names have fallen out of regular use; newsagent - and the slightly adapted butcher's, baker's and maybe to a lesser extent, stationer's; are still used by some - although as most newsagents are housed within small "convenience stores" these days, I suspect even its' days are numbered!
Happy Christmas to you and yours, by the way!
Brut 33 it would take the varnish off your table!
That was great. I remembered many of those ads from when I was a boy, so it was very nostalgic. It was fun to see former British champion darts player Eric Bristow getting a cameo in one of the adds. I'd forgotten about the one where the turkey gets shot, but I remembered laughing at it when I was a kid. Interesting though to see how many ads suggested that all problems can be solved with beer! You wouldn't see that now-a-days. Merry Christmas Sogal!
It's a Partridge not a turkey.
The thing I noticed was how big the tins of chocolate sweets and biscuits were back then to now [ almost twice the size of todays ] sometimes it’s good to look back
I noticed that, back in the 70s 80s every home had a chocolate tin for sewing, buttons, cottons and needles, you wouldn't get much in them now
The big production Woolworth Christmas ads were the John Lewis of their day. There were some great beer ads in the 80's. Possibly the greatest was a Heineken one which was a reverse version of Pygmalion where a posh girl is aught, with the help of Heineken, to develop a cockney accent.
The wor-a in Ma-jorka dahnt taste loik wor-it aught-a.
Woolworth was a great store sold everything. Pick n mix sweet legendary, Always had the best advertising at Christmas. News agents are a store that sold newspaper's cigarettes sweets in jars and more . I miss sweets sold buy the quater
A news agent is a shop selling newspapers and magazines.
The Accurist ad at the end of the clip is a take off of the BT service “TIM, The Speaking Clock”. This was a service provided by BT (previously called the Post Office) and they were the only telephone provider for the UK. At the beginning the Post Office Tower is shown and had only just been built. It provided national telephone transmission equipment connecting to other parts of the country. The top of the tower had large “horn” microwave aerials on the roof. It was a tall tower about 580 feet tall. The top floor was built with a revolving restaurant but was later closed after terrorist attacks. The Speaking Clock gave very accurate time checks, from my area you dialled 8081, in others TIM. A recorded voice would say “At the third stroke it will be Eight Fifteen and 50 Seconds, Beep Beep Beep.” guaranteed to be very accurate! Loads of calls to it at midnight on New Years Eve. I worked for BT for 40 years and we used to set all our system clocks by the TIM, even when we went digital.
The Turkey kebabs advert was for OXO gravy cubed but the constant mentioning of Turkey is in reference to the endless turkey leftovers from cooking a large turkey for Christmas and having turkey left overs for days after until everyone is sick of Turkey dinners
Barry (Barry Sheen )was and still is a legend and so is Hoges ( Paul Hogan )
A newsagent is a shop that sells newspapers and magazines
"NEEB" was the North East(ern) Electricity Board, "SWEB" was the South Wales/West Electricity Board.
Can’t wait for Part 2 - (potentially a part 3,4 and 5)
Woolworth is almost gone, only left in some countries and those are department stores catering more towards traditional housewifes. for example, they sell cloth by the meter for sewing and stuff like that, but not the cloth one with taste would buy, maybe for curtains but, oh well. Anyway lots of sheap nicknack trash, usually a beauty product section with more perfume than any nose can bear expect that of the stereotypical Aunt... well that type of stuff... 😁
An American who has never heard of Woolworth's? The discount retail chain that America gave to the world.
I loved the look on your face with the Heineken ad when the partridge got shot lol
Woolworths went kaput years ago. It was a US derived company. A bargain basement company.
Hm. As far as I'm aware we tend to call them both commercials - as in commercial channels - or Adverts or "Right, I'll jus' go put th' kettle on!"
OMG, this brought back some memories!
Lot of old celebrities in there. Pop singer Arfer Brown in the first woolworths one, boxer Henry Cooper in the Brut aftershave add.
F W Woolworth started out as an American company, but the chain of stores here became very British. They sold everything, at cheap prices. The went bust a few years ago during one of the banking crises.
A newsagent is a small shop that is named for selling daily papers, but carries loads of other stock, sweets, tobacco. Batteries aspirin crisps fizzy drinks....
Most of these adds seem to be 80s -90s vintage.
A kebab is sliced meat, served in a dough wrap. Popular with revellers late at night. The Oxo family were on telly for years. We watched the kids grow up. They reflected British culture. In this one they are playing o the fact that a turkey is a big bird, and there are a lot of leftovers to eat tour way through. It can get tedious!
Paxo is stuffing. It's a mix of breadcrumbs herbs onion etc that is shoved into the turkey's cavity before cooking to add flavour, aid the process, and is popular with some people. I don't particularly like it though.
Thought it was Joe Brown.
it is Joe Brown and Barry Sheen was with Henry Cooper
Aww I miss the old Quality Street sweet tin. Takes me back to my childhood Christmases in the 1970's.
Oh yes, a proper round metal tin, with the picture of the early 19th century era soldier and lady in a bonnet. Much better than the modern purple plastic octagon.
Woolworth's or F. W. Woolworth & Co., to give full name was an American company more like a five and dime store. They sold almost everything and were reasonably priced often considered cheap, the old adage, stack it high, sell it cheap. They went to the wall in the late 80's as rents skyrocketed. Most of those ads date from the 70's, some were by regional TV stations and many of the companies featured disappeared years ago. NEEB was the North Eastern Electricity Board when the power companies were Government owned. All had retail shops where electrical goods could be purchased and put on one's electric bill and paid off quarterly over 12/24 months if things like cookers, fridges or TV's and anything if over over a minimum amount.
They went bust in 2008.
@@daviniarobbins9298 My mistake, the one in my town closed in '89 due to excessive rent increase, missed the cafeteria after. I emigrated in '97 so must have heard about the Bankruptcy/Liquidation on the news. All a long time ago. My Sister was a Saturday girl at one.
Woolworths is gone but not forgotten. x
Kebabs are a very popular fast food dish here, its of middle Eastern origin, hence the reference to Turkey. Kebabs are often cooked on a skewar and consist of shredded or cubed meat and often vegetables. There are Doner and Shish kebabs, although its not something I eat. Maybe in the US they have a different name.
There's a program on the food channel called Pioneer Women and she always calls them kebobs
One thing to add is who is in the adverts. So the first Woolworth ad has Joe Brown - a British rock-and-roller of the 1950s and early 1960s, maybe the British Eddie Cochrane, the Brut ad had Henry Cooper, sort of the UK's equivalent of Muhammed Ali. The Oxo ad features two sitcom stars, so it would be a bit like John Goodman and Roseanne Barr trying to sell you mac and cheese kits or something like that. Narrating are other sitcom stars like Su Pollard.
I think that was Barry Sheene (the motorbike racer) in the ad with Henry Cooper
@@markthomas2577 it was Barry Sheene, Heart throb of the time, they used younger sportsmen juxtaposed with older Henry Cooper
Yes Woolworths is a bit like jcpenney, I also miss mince pie, old spice was a cologne and shower gel .Merry Christmas to you.
Merry Christmas Sarah, from Phill in Cornwall UK
The bird singing when the shotgun is fired taking out his can of Heineken to revive him for some reason reminds me of Popeye taking out his can of spinach i wonder if that gave them the idea.
Hi, Sarah, i was trying to date these, I'm guessing from the products it was the 1980s. Woolworths sold most things, they were famous for their pick n mix sweets (candies) they sold records, video cassettes, electrical goods, clothing. They have all gone now they had all closed by 2009. It was a store I believe that was started by an American, F W Woolworth. The American owners sold the UK stores in the 1980s. I miss them.
A lot of them make me think 70s, but some of them I think will be early 80s.
The bulk of them are from the first few years of the eighties when videos were just starting out. I can remember nearly all of them from my mid teens.
I spent the last 5 years telling people I'm finally a grown man, this video shattered that though 😂😭
My mum loved Yardley's lavender soap. xx
The Heinekin adverts seemed to feature drunks with Dean Martin singing.
Kebabs are like Gyros but they’re Turkish rather than Greek… then there’s Shisha Kebabs cooked on skewers, I’ve heard those referred to as Kabobs in the US
The older Guy in the brut 33 add was Henry cooper, a major celeb in the seventies. He was a British boxer who had Muhammad Ali on the deck. Not my scene but some people like that sort of thing. Brut was a cheap aftershave and deodorant that found it's way into every teenagers Christmas stocking. Paxo is a stuffing
And the younger guy was Barry Sheene.
@@orwellboy1958 oh yeah so it was, even after I read your comment I could only just recognise Barry Sheene. He was a motorbiker basically held together with metal pins. Another big star of the day.
@@johnbircham4984 With Barry's beautiful wife:Model:Stephanie McLean who was much taller than him :)
While Christmas is considered party season in the UK, especially as we get Boxing Day as a holiday, I think the drinking culture in the UK is just more ingrained in the UK generally, or it definitely was in the 80's as most of these commercials are from. "Any chance for a booze up"
Heineken adverts were better than the lager itself.
Same with Fosters