I'm the tuba player in the Woolworth's commercial (short guy, left of shot) that opens this compilation. The group of musicians walking slowly towards the camera. If memory serves, the commercial was shot at the Arndale Centre, Luton. It was made by Abacus Productions. Look out for the 'Disneyesque' castle over the store name... a beautiful, hand-painted matte, the like of which would probably never be attached to the front of a film camera these days.
@charliesilverman1132
3 жыл бұрын
Cool, was Roy Castle singing on that too?.
@matthewwilliams7507
Жыл бұрын
I’m the compact turbo £8.99
@punkgerbil
Жыл бұрын
@@charliesilverman1132 Thank you - that was bugging the hell out of me.....
@Riaz000Ali
Жыл бұрын
I've been trying to find out who that tuba player was for years.
@andykelly7321
Жыл бұрын
@@Riaz000Ali Hahaha
@Michelle-qd9gm
3 жыл бұрын
I loved it as a kid when the shops used to be shut for the whole over Xmas time no shops was open and the quality street tins. Looked like heaven when you opened them
@Witheredgoogie
3 жыл бұрын
Back then probably the only major crisis at Christmas was seeing the dreaded words "batteries not included"
@Dazza5007
3 жыл бұрын
Yep had to wait over a week for batteries for my remote control car 😭my mum and dad forgot the batteries , they didn’t blame santa though 😂 Only petrol stations were open a few hours here and there and the odd shop that was open didn’t sell batteries 😩
@skylined5534
3 жыл бұрын
@@Dazza5007 And if they did sell them they'd be crap 'Soopapowaa' types which would last approximately 90 minutes and cost as much as the toy 😂
@brokeandtired
3 жыл бұрын
Not a huge issue..there was not much to put batteries in. Almost all toys were non electronic in nature...And the battery based toys usually wound up in the cupboard never to be played with again (due to batteries being expensive). Thank god we now have rechargeable batteries on most things these days or the decent batteries come in huge cheap packs.
@thornbird6768
4 жыл бұрын
I miss Woolworths 😢 remember when we did our complete Xmas shop in our local city centres !!! It was much more fun that way 👍🏻
@carabus0354
4 жыл бұрын
It's was a great shop but more expensive, so I used to look around for an idea of what to buy and shop around for better prices. Their Pick a Mix was extortion but fond memories. When we had a child we took her to Woolies and brought her a £250 electronic horse. Good times.
@eightiesguy494
4 жыл бұрын
The Grinch stole xmas *Shopaholic really did at Woolworths* Unsure how u managed to steal everything from Woolies, but good on ya 😂 I think 🤔😐
@eightiesguy494
4 жыл бұрын
@Scott S but the comment read "was more fun that way" 😂 left open to interpretation 😂
@jakemarch-jones2789
4 жыл бұрын
The hustle and bustle, bumping into old friends, the cold bite of the air? A simpler time!
@eddisonfoncette9103
4 жыл бұрын
Didn't realise just how happy I was. I miss going to Woolies, HMV, Virgin Megastores, and so many of the shops that I grew up going to and have now gone. Truly breaks my heart
@andybaker2456
3 жыл бұрын
Very bittersweet, especially the Woolworths advert featuring so many celebs who are no longer with us. Even good old Woolies itself is gone! I'd forgotten just how expensive electronics were back then though. I remember my aunt and uncle buying me one of those Disco Dollys for Christmas one year though...once my record collection outgrew it, I used it as a bedside table! 😊
@ws5606
4 жыл бұрын
Even the adverts from the 80s are charming. Wish I grew up in such a grand time.
@samanthacampbell5048
3 жыл бұрын
It was a great time you did miss out
@jfc4798
3 жыл бұрын
It wasn't "grand" it was a time of mass unemployment and inequality.
@ClaraMorris-be1ev
9 ай бұрын
life was good less complicated and our children didnt have the pressures they have today
@gingervirus2988
5 жыл бұрын
After watching the Hornby Ad, I bit the bullet and bought a train set. Unfortunately I opted for the Southern Rail edition; when I opened the box all it contained was two buses, one of which was broken
@56postoffice
5 жыл бұрын
😂😂 Lmao
@Parknest
5 жыл бұрын
Be lucky you didn't get the Northern Rail edition where they're forever going on strike (I'm sympathetic to the cause of the real Northern Rail workers), an emergency timetable is in place and the rolling stock is at least 30 years old and overcrowded.
@MrDegsy69
5 жыл бұрын
GInger Virus you want to try the Northern Rail version? Just vast expanses of empty track and pickets selling Socialist Worker on the desolate windswept platforms. Totally ruined my Xmas, what a total bunch of cnuts! 😂😂😂
@Steve20127
4 жыл бұрын
Ba dum Tish!!
@helpmeImbeing
4 жыл бұрын
I ordered a British Rail Hornby set, it never arrived.
@indieshack4476
4 жыл бұрын
anyone else wish they could hop into a time machine and head back to the 80's...
@floraflorabunda2216
4 жыл бұрын
Indieshack yep every day. This modern world is cold, chaotic and empty
@simmsr801
4 жыл бұрын
If only we had a time machine.
@TerryTheNewsGirl
4 жыл бұрын
Do I ever....! Yes, please!
@loulou7963
4 жыл бұрын
Oh me !
@MrIcecolddd
3 жыл бұрын
Yep count me in!
@Khonsu1373
5 жыл бұрын
It's quite depressing in that 30 year old adverts have more entertainment value than the tv programmes that are broadcast now.
@noelsatterley2996
5 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more. Oh jeeves! Croft original one of my favourites. still makes me laugh.
@AtheistOrphan
5 жыл бұрын
Richard Goodwin - 30? 40 years old in 9 months time!
@Fifury161
5 жыл бұрын
Too true - depressing to see what is available now - there is even a dedicated channel _CHANNEL_ to sewing?! Cup cake wars, body paint, Ru Paul, tree house creations, have they finally killed Big Brother? What ever happened to the Krypton Factor (I think it started in 1977 though, but it still counts in my book!) ?
@marcse7en
4 жыл бұрын
The reason people like these old adverts is nostalgia ...... and the PRICES!
@kevinsoutham
4 жыл бұрын
Don’t tell me, things aren’t as great as they used to be when you were a lad, in the good old days etc *yawn*
@zoefoster1242
4 жыл бұрын
Just feel upset and old , god time went fast
@alanssnack1192
4 жыл бұрын
fukoff u r not old, im only 34, young asf bru
@notreyf
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, zoe, I know what you mean. Where did all those years go? Nostalgia is nice to revel in sometimes but you're right, it can bring a lump to the throat.
@miked4377
4 жыл бұрын
true dat
@nettyvoyager6336
3 жыл бұрын
@@miked4377 lmao may good time to come dont worry you old git :P
@2000stephenellis
3 жыл бұрын
I know where your at Zoe ... what would i give for just 1 more 80`s xmas ... times seemed so much happier then .. all of my family have now passed on ... just happy memories remain ..
@tigertony2716
4 жыл бұрын
Of all the high street stores that have closed I miss Woolworth's the most
@alanssnack1192
4 жыл бұрын
woolworths had noting but sweets
@keithpovall9996
4 жыл бұрын
We had a huge on in Wolverhampton, one of the best shops I've ever been in.
@stevetaylor8698
3 жыл бұрын
@@keithpovall9996 It was so good everyone stopped shopping there and it went bust.
@Agnethatheredhairkid
2 жыл бұрын
@@keithpovall9996 There was also one in Wednesfield, Keith.
@darrengrimmer8541
3 жыл бұрын
The best days of my life.. I Remember all these adverts. My beloved Nan was spoiling us rotten bless her.. Anyone got a time machine??????
@richardpadden
4 жыл бұрын
Certainly brings back great memories from the 80's. So much better than the crap we have to deal with today.
@garyowens1517
5 жыл бұрын
I miss Woolworths. Great adverts. Also worked for them for 11 years. Best job I ever had. Knew how to look after their staff
@TheDeanoc69
4 жыл бұрын
I’m glad to hear that, wouldn’t like to think they were arseholes cos I have such fond memories of them
@parksyist
4 жыл бұрын
Free pick n mix 😁
@simonmoore2380
3 жыл бұрын
Shame they didn’t look after their business strategy.....
@garyowens1517
3 жыл бұрын
@@simonmoore2380 yes. Didn't move with the times.
@stevel9914
3 жыл бұрын
@@garyowens1517 Or they fot out earlier than anyone else seeing what was going to happen ... even more relevant in 2020. Though they may have been able to stay open as B AND M are the new Woolworths ... never bothered to look to see of they have connections
@brantnuttall
4 жыл бұрын
7:03 nobody remembers Whizzer and Chips but I do. It was my favourite comic back then!
@crumplezone1
4 жыл бұрын
Mine too, and the Topper :)
@philiptynan9159
3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget desperate Dan and the beano.
@pigknickers2975
3 жыл бұрын
I do! Whizzer and Chips, Topper, Beezer, Beano, Dandy. They were all good, I think I liked Beezer the most.
@28YorkshireRose12
3 жыл бұрын
I do, but I was growing beyond comics by then.....
@iansweet2484
3 жыл бұрын
yup!
@BlackCoffeeee
3 жыл бұрын
The 80s were both tough and wonderful at the same time. Money was tight and many of those gifts were way beyond our price range. But the people seemed 'brighter' or way more fun and friendly back then. It's not just nostalgia, people and their attitudes really were better. It's a pity we had to lose our naivety and comraderie. Everything seems so cold, soulless, flat and drab now. Hopefully we'll get our shine back someday.
@idj20
3 жыл бұрын
Bless Kenny Everett, a TV legend. And that ET game for the Atari console. Oh dear, that went bad VERY quickly.
@dannyfisher5086
4 жыл бұрын
Oh this Christmas I want a time machine i miss them days
@charliesilverman1132
3 жыл бұрын
What about now?.
@deemdoubleu
2 жыл бұрын
There was still a lot of Christmas Spirit around back then, I wish it would come back, we all need some.
@nodarkthings
5 жыл бұрын
Back when we used to do our Christmas shopping on the high street
@Fifury161
5 жыл бұрын
We never did get stores decorated over-the-top American style, although there is a local nursery (yes, a garden centre!) that spends a ridiculous amount each year turning itself into one of those movie sets - they even had Santa arrive by helicopter! facebook.com/hillsidenurserycentre
@alisonlaing5626
4 жыл бұрын
yes...good old "woolworth" etc...sadly "gone". an old fav for "years".
@altyfc2010
4 жыл бұрын
You can if you still want too
@pyeltd.5457
4 жыл бұрын
Alison Laing like WARDS in the US.
@marcse7en
4 жыл бұрын
...... because Tim Berners Lee hadn't invented the Internet yet!
@MrMistoffelees
4 жыл бұрын
Lovely, lovely Linda Bellingham - much missed. One of the cheapest items advertised - the Millennium Falcon - is probably now the most valuable. Great collection, Neil - thanks.
@fightersweep
Жыл бұрын
It was 1980 me and my brother got the Millenium Falcon for Christmas. I was so excited!! Subsequently bought the Snow Speeder with my Christmas money from Argos just after boxing day. I was in Star Wars heaven. Still got the Falcon and speeder, and restored them both back to their former glory about 15 years ago. Wish I'd had the foresight to keep the boxes though.
@NewRootsHairUK
5 жыл бұрын
Seems like life on another planet.
@davidcousins3508
3 жыл бұрын
It was ..
@zeddeka
2 жыл бұрын
"The past is a different country. They do things differently there."
@chrisrowl5001
4 жыл бұрын
I used to love getting blank video recording tapes as a stocking filler as a kid,weird or what
@simonmitchell60
4 жыл бұрын
Beta or VHS?
@chrisrowl5001
4 жыл бұрын
Both and video 2000 too
@marcse7en
4 жыл бұрын
If you call recording your favourite TV shows "weird", then yes, you're weird! 😂😂😂
@chazsach6594
4 жыл бұрын
Definitely not, i got a single Betamax tape which i think were £10 at the time, which was a perfect.
@dazednconfused31337
4 жыл бұрын
Check out this amazing animation called "blank vhs covers were kinda beautiful" kzitem.info/news/bejne/xm96zId5pF9nfqQ
@stestewart1119
4 жыл бұрын
Aged 31 I can't help but feel that past times are the best times...
@davidkennedy8
5 жыл бұрын
4:01 "the fabulous ET" for atari..... oh dear
@bluethunder6801
4 жыл бұрын
Those were the days a lol
@beatrixwickson8477
4 жыл бұрын
Ahh, ET. The game that sunk Atari.
@tomfu6210
4 жыл бұрын
It truly is a History
@ColtSSR
4 жыл бұрын
Later ended up in the landfill
@theuglyhairmonster2
4 жыл бұрын
Send this to the angry video game nerd
@kap6369
2 жыл бұрын
These old Christmas adverts from the 80s and 90s were so much better. Really made you feel 'Christmassy'. 🎄🎅
@Trowsiff-uk
3 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Bobby Ball. Him passing was is just another kick in the teeth for 2020. Who would have imagined back then that COVID-19 would come along one day and change the world as we know it. Condolences to anyone who’s lost loved ones this tragic year and here’s hoping 2021 will be a trouble free year.
@ravengaming2597
3 жыл бұрын
Love it at 4:00 when they say they have the "fantastic" E.T.😂😂
@JonnyGTFC
4 жыл бұрын
The best times.. You had to go to your shops to get your Christmas presents, things felt more like Christmas and the current age has made it lose all that feeling.
@Michelle-qd9gm
3 жыл бұрын
Yes I remember a lot of presents hanging from the pushchair 😂
@zeddeka
2 жыл бұрын
Guess what? You're not a kid anymore and you're not looking at the world through the eyes of a kid. Nobody forced people to order things online and get them delivered. They started doing it because they PREFERRED it to going to the shops and buying stuff.
@stkenno8758
3 жыл бұрын
Watching this makes me think “oh shit, I’m 43 already” 😢
@WoodsleeSummercraftwoodturning
4 жыл бұрын
My mum was the entertainment manager at the Luton Arndale, she worked on organizing some of the adds in the 80’s, I remember meeting Windsor Davies, John Inman , June Whitfield among others Haven’t since seen those adds.
@joannegray5138
6 жыл бұрын
Anybody else spend the duration of this video saying "S/He's dead, so's s/he" and "That company is no longer in business". Ah, for the cosy days of yore.
@Bruce-vq7ni
6 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what iv just been doing. And it's a tad depressing. Brut 33 aftershave the great smell of the 70s.
@Steve20127
6 жыл бұрын
I do and it makes me feel very old!!
@mgpowis
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, and I still have a dozen perpax 12" cases full of vynil
@melgrant7404
5 жыл бұрын
@@mgpowis me too.
@gary72carol61
5 жыл бұрын
I did, OXO adverts (Lynda Bellingham) especially because they were the adverts that everyone waited for at Christmas, a bit like we do now for Sainsburys or John Lewis. Is that Liz Fraser from the Carry on team at 11:29 ? we just lost her recently, she was amazingly sexy in her day, beauty.
@Jay-Kay-Em
4 жыл бұрын
The advert with the ladies tights 2:45 is where the tape is worn out.... anything you need to admit 🤔
@frankwest8149
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah many fond memories on VHS wearing the tapes out or is that just me
@mooseyman74
4 жыл бұрын
Ha ha that's slimmer pickings than the lingerie section in Mum's Grattans catalogue 😄
@paulnesbitt1698
4 жыл бұрын
When Christmas really was Christmas.
@steve_ire321
4 жыл бұрын
`Because you were a child? It all still looks the same bullshit for me these days. Which is why I fucking hate it. Same tired, reused songs in your ear. Same bullshit. As U2 famously said in a song once, nothing changes on new years day. Well, its the same thing, really.
@miepmaster25
4 жыл бұрын
paul nesbitt you think. Nostalgia is basic human psychology. Christmas has always been about consumerism.
@paulnesbitt1698
4 жыл бұрын
People seem to miss the point . These are the Christmas adverts I remember as a very young boy... many years ago Part of Christmas for us was going Christmas shopping with my parents. I dont know what the world has came to when you carnt have a memory of Christmas as a child.
@paulnesbitt1698
4 жыл бұрын
Didn't ebenezer scrooge say in Charles Dickens famous Christmas tale..... something like you celebrate Christmas your way.....and I will celebrate it my way. And o yeah... merry Christmas to one and all.
@paulnesbitt1698
4 жыл бұрын
Personally I start to celebrate Christmas on the 1st of December. I'm certainly not a child anymore but Christmas was a fantastic time for me. I have 2 grandsons....the youngest is 5 and to see the joy and excitement on those children's faces around Christmas is for me what it is all about. Why on earth would anybody want to take Christmas away from children ? It's a very troubling world we live in at the moment.... let children be children.
@MrSteeleification
5 жыл бұрын
Rose tinted glasses are a wonderful thing.
@smallbluemachine
4 жыл бұрын
Especially with Christmas holly the sides of them!
@eightiesguy494
4 жыл бұрын
😎 🤓
@mclovin8739
5 жыл бұрын
"If you're still in the cold ring us next week, happy new year" I take it Harp heating aren't around anymore lol
@Bruce-vq7ni
4 жыл бұрын
Harp heating - it was all over in 2006.
@budgietrousers8275
4 жыл бұрын
Those were the days. When Xmas was great
@marcse7en
4 жыл бұрын
Make Xmas Great Again! Oh, hang on a minute, my bad, I'm thinking of Trump's America! 😂😂😂
@thishelen
4 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing the cannon and ball panto at Bristol hippodrome as a child on a school trip.
@jim40135
4 жыл бұрын
I was just dazzled by all the 'TV personalities' in that Woolworth's advert when I realised it was Roy Castle singing! Telly royalty indeed.
@preachercaine
5 жыл бұрын
Some of these products I would still consider expensive today.
@smallbluemachine
4 жыл бұрын
On the other hand, most of it was made in the West, as opposed to being imported from China. Back to the first hand, automation probably would have taken a lot of jobs eventually anyway, especially in the West.
@brynleytalbot778
4 жыл бұрын
smallbluemachine We were in the era of Made in Japan, the predecessor to Made in China, when Japan stood for quality and technological innovation rather than cheap goods produced in low wage economies. In the race for growth we consigned ethical considerations to the waste bin as a moral vanity. Now we're paying the price. Halcyon days where children played together even on electronic games. Odd that life is now so insular. Can that really be a human advance?
@alanssnack1192
4 жыл бұрын
@@brynleytalbot778 i love chinese products, and their engines are fantastic too.
@steeviem1835
4 жыл бұрын
They are more expensive than nowadays
@steeviem1835
4 жыл бұрын
Dixons: £500 for a photo camera!!wow
@LordGeorgeRodney
4 жыл бұрын
ah the wonderful voices of Robert Powell, Joss Ackland, Michael Jayston, Richard Briers - they did most of the voices for 80's adverts.
@purpleonmymind
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, proper cakey voices 😉
@1000sofusernames
5 жыл бұрын
The 80s was the peak of civilisation. Technology was at the perfect level where it was still physical and you needed to use your imagination in computer games.
@Fifury161
5 жыл бұрын
On reflection I'm confident you are correct - as it was also the best decade for music, I mean how many different genres came out of the 80s? You also had to visit a library to do research, no internet to look up. BMX was a thing as well!
@zeddeka
4 жыл бұрын
Isnt it amazing how the past gets better and better the older we get?
@privatecaboose250
4 жыл бұрын
Stop living in the past and technology is actually better than in the 80s
@pyeltd.5457
4 жыл бұрын
I had a iPhone 6 in 1983
@privatecaboose250
4 жыл бұрын
@@pyeltd.5457 Nice Joke lol
@artfuldodger2623
3 жыл бұрын
When life was great and you appreciate the simple things in life.
@janeokeeffe5297
3 жыл бұрын
I agree
@thebaron9059
3 жыл бұрын
If we all wish hard enough I'm sure we could transport back to these fantastic golden days! Todays world is an absolute nightmare in comparison.
@strawberrycupcake4471
4 жыл бұрын
Never would today's celebs would all get together to make an advert...loved the Woolworths ad...great days !
@shenysys
4 жыл бұрын
Was basically a who's who of the entertainment industry.
@purpleonmymind
4 жыл бұрын
Yes -only to promote their boring 'slebdom'😑
@andyhoops.6156
3 жыл бұрын
It was Easter by the time that Woolworths ad finished.
@richardknowlson6319
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly. I agree with you. 80s adverts are better to watch than some full programmes that are on TV today. Just think.
@Matt_-um4ce
3 жыл бұрын
I thought the whole nearly 13 mins was going to be the Woolworths ad 😂
@2thinkcritically
4 жыл бұрын
That tights advert has been watched so many times the tape has worn out 🤣
@playerone82
5 жыл бұрын
Simon Says for £20!.... no wonder I never got one.
@brantnuttall
4 жыл бұрын
Yes but I got the Atari. I felt really lucky!
@nicolepowell5470
4 жыл бұрын
Oh heck I've got the brut advert jingle in my head now.
@caeserromero3013
2 жыл бұрын
4:02 this is the only time I've ever seen an advert for ET on Atari. It was a legendary flop and ended up in landfill. They're so rare they're worth a fortune now...
@oscarpaxin2160
3 жыл бұрын
Life comes at you fast, eh. This is the video I didn’t know I needed to watch today. X
@garyandrewranford
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Neil... thank you so much for the upload... what flash backs to my 80's as a teenager :-)
@timeforatwix
4 жыл бұрын
It all seemed better then, frightening now looking back how many years ago this was, yet still strong memories. The dam internet, makes you wonder what’s in store later in life 😦😳😳. Wish I could take the dam battery out the clocks and stop time ........ sigh 😔
@cheyennebritbrat
5 жыл бұрын
brut single handedly burnt a hole in the ozone layer
@paulfolkard2493
5 жыл бұрын
ha ha ha
@Bruce-vq7ni
5 жыл бұрын
Brut - the great smell of the 70's. But not a bad as Denim or Hai karate.
@NOWThatsRichy
4 жыл бұрын
It burnt a hole in your armpit as well, if you used too much!
@paulfolkard2493
5 жыл бұрын
jeeeeez if we tried to send my mum out for the paxo like that at xmas we' d be picking the peanuts out of our skulls for the rest of the year.
@johnhastings7841
2 жыл бұрын
RIP Lynda Bellingham & Michael Redfern. God Rest Their Souls, Always.
@omiyoutube7543
4 жыл бұрын
Sad to see woolworth go ... I remember my first mobile phone I bought in 2000 .
@deanhollywell2064
5 жыл бұрын
Love all these compilations Neil, really take me back, simpler days when I was young . Great stuff.
@TerryTheNewsGirl
4 жыл бұрын
RIP, Linda Bellingham!
@johnhastings7841
2 жыл бұрын
And now RIP Michael Redfern
@SHINBET666
4 жыл бұрын
I love that BMX , especially with its “ Wheelie Good Price “
@GBManGentle
3 жыл бұрын
Woolworths was the best Christmas shop ever XD
@mryanik0
4 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Woolworths :(
@misst.e.a.187
4 жыл бұрын
Blimey, I spotted Harry Worth. Loved him when I was a child in the 60s
@grumpyiam6300
4 жыл бұрын
...or was it Count Arthur Strong? 🙂
@S7EVE_P
6 жыл бұрын
I think the 1980s was the last time I saw a Sherry Advert!
@Steve20127
6 жыл бұрын
Old England; as dead as the country.
@markharvey7284
5 жыл бұрын
Or cigars...
@rickewilde
5 жыл бұрын
So true.Harveys Bristol cream was another one.
@markharvey7284
5 жыл бұрын
@@rickewilde yes, a lad at my school used to call me that and it wound me up his name was Chris White so I sang the R White's lemonade song back in retaliation! Happy days..
@rickewilde
5 жыл бұрын
@@markharvey7284 lol.the secret lemonade drinker.
@sahhull
4 жыл бұрын
I still have my Atari 2600 console.. It still works in 2019
@martyn_g
4 жыл бұрын
We left the UK in 87 - these certainly bring back memories- although I skipped some parts - who remembers the original Toys-R-Us ad?
@realfacthunt
4 жыл бұрын
I got an Atari in 1982 I think, it was possibly the best present I ever received as a child. I loved that console and sometimes I'd get home from school and find mum and dad playing Asteroids on it and looking guilty :)
@oscargrainger2962
2 жыл бұрын
I loved Woolworths. Bring it back.
@davecook3840
3 жыл бұрын
Roy Castle singing there on the Woolworths advert. So many faces there now lost to time. And Bobby Ball only yesterday..... RIP
@thirdratecontent585
4 жыл бұрын
Mum forgot the paxo and ruined our Christmas dinner so this year we reminded her by leaving a massive paxo boxin the front garden!! It would’ve been a lot easier to buy it yourself you lazy sods 🤦♂️😂
@marcse7en
4 жыл бұрын
Get stuffed! 😂😂😂
@Klute1977
4 жыл бұрын
They wouldn't get away with that advert now!
@johnandrade3773
2 жыл бұрын
Much ado about stuffing! I😋
@Bruce-vq7ni
6 жыл бұрын
Box Gold from Ronco! How much did you not want one of those.
@keithpovall9996
4 жыл бұрын
I must confess that I never walked out of Woollies with my gifts gold foil wrapped.
@DisneyMarkUK
4 жыл бұрын
Fabulous memories, thank you for sharing
@steveganz7418
4 жыл бұрын
When you factor in inflation things were pretty expensive back then
@colinmayes5892
3 жыл бұрын
Woolworth Christmas adverts were always the best
@JohnnyX50
3 жыл бұрын
80's Adverts - 12 minutes of fun and interest and name that celebrity face/voice over. 2000's Adverts - 12 minutes of pure boredom and 'get on with it!' Woolworth had Rodney Bewes singing EMI Recording Tapes, bloke in brown jumper, I know the face, not the name, Kenny Everett, woman in blue blazer, face yes, name no sadly. Braun shaver, Windsor 'lovely boy' Davies. I want to go back in time and live my 80's again :) Michael Jayston does the voice over for the Sionon Diabetic Foods and has done tons of TV shows and still is! He comes from my neck of the woods here in Nottinghamshire :) Willie Rushton doing the ASDA voice over. The lovely, late Lynda Bellingham in the infamous OXO adverts . The adorable, bubbly, wonderful Sue Pollard (who my mum met in Morrisons while shopping, she said they were like sisters to her!) in the WHSmith advert (voice over) I really miss those days. Christmas felt like a really wonderful time because of those fabulous people in all the adverts. Todays adverts are boring, droning, mind numbing sell sell sell, buy buy buy crap.
@davidgallagher611
4 жыл бұрын
Peaceful times... All good innocent appeal to the masses that went to work with no other agenda than to feed there familys, teach then right from wrong and treat everine with respect todays youngsters habe mussed out on all the fun, plesdure in giving and genuine love by all to all....why have we allowed this country to ve where it is now..😪
@trevorrandom
4 жыл бұрын
The stars really did come out for Woolworths!
@whangie1
4 жыл бұрын
I remember doing Christmas shopping at the Woolco “superstore” at Cumbernauld. Even the part of Cumbernauld Town Centre where Woolco stood is gone.
@aquafresh3150
4 жыл бұрын
Weird to think when i was a kid in the early 2000s we’d go out to town and buy presents for relatives. But now all of those shops have closed.
@clairrollings3988
4 жыл бұрын
Aaaaahhhhh! The Bisto adds with the lovely Linda Bellingham! 😘
@lesturner
4 жыл бұрын
Not a single email address, URL or mobile number. Back when days were more straight forward.... buy in person or go without.
@Bruce-vq7ni
5 жыл бұрын
Amstrad personal stereo £10.95 - Knowing Amstrad that would break before the 1st set of batteries ran flat.
@paymydues
5 жыл бұрын
You're Fired !!!!!LOL
@tedski69
3 жыл бұрын
I like looking at these ads and thinking "not around any more". ;)
@andyc6542
3 жыл бұрын
You like it? Makes me sad to see all the faces and brands we’ve lost.
@keithwaites9991
4 жыл бұрын
Blimey, no wonder Woolworth went skint...they were still trying to raise the money to pay all those celebs who appeared on that 1980 Xmas ad
@marcse7en
4 жыл бұрын
That's the wonder of Woolies!
@G-ra-ha-m
4 жыл бұрын
They were bought, asset stripped and forced to rent buildings back that they used to simply own. Same as BHS.
@kevinhoughton9134
4 жыл бұрын
Just fell behind the times, can't continue to trade as you did 20 years ago.
@G-ra-ha-m
4 жыл бұрын
@@kevinhoughton9134 They managed fine until suddenly they were left with no assets and giant rents. Asset Stripped.
@kevinhoughton9134
4 жыл бұрын
@@G-ra-ha-m Did they not own the buildings they were in then? Other than the buildings what possible assets could they own apart from pick ' n ' mix?
@richardupton3323
3 жыл бұрын
6.43 hahaha nothing smacks more of " i couldent be arsed" then going to a newsagent to get your christmas present. If i whould have been given a copy of a puzzle magazine for a christmas present i whould have thought my dad was going mental.
@jonathansteadman7935
3 жыл бұрын
Christmas 1980, just seen the Jam and became a fan. Don't remember these ads though, save the bird drinking Heineken and the gravy one. Obviously spent more time listening to music in my room or round friends houses. We didn't have TV in our own rooms back then.
@MultiAndrew1971
5 жыл бұрын
Mandate aftershave loved that stuff. Many a Saturday night out drowned in it
@MultiAndrew1971
5 жыл бұрын
Ivor Biggun blue stratos that was a good one as well
@tommiddleton6590
4 жыл бұрын
If times and attitudes towards different things were more like they were today, I would’ve loved to live back then.
@zeddeka
2 жыл бұрын
Always astonishing to see some of the comments in these old clips. Some people who seem genuinely shocked that time has passed and like every other human who ever lived, they've got old and the world has changed.
@yellowjackboots2624
3 жыл бұрын
Remember the one with the Christmas tree slowly going up in flames then "FIRE KILLS!" That was my favourite.
@mrcatman6854
4 жыл бұрын
AY GREAT TIMES GREW UP IN THE EIGHTIES LONG BEFORE POUND SHOPS AND KEBAB SHOPS... TAKES ME BACK BEFORE RETAIL SELF DESTRUCTED AND THE HIGH STREET AND MARKETS DIED
@Panzerbeast
4 жыл бұрын
Miss the 1980's.
@ShanesQueenSite
2 жыл бұрын
I just saw the add for the Whizzer & Chips Annual ... I forgot all about that one
@chazwalker7156
4 жыл бұрын
On the face of todays day and age, these were much happier times in general - down with technical evolution, bahhhh humbug. Ps. Continue on the time machine project tho - and hurry up, god damit 💪
@GrrMeister
4 жыл бұрын
8:50 *Love the **_'Paxo'_** advert, especially the ending ! LOL*
@dalebaker9109
5 жыл бұрын
Flipping heck, some of that stuff, is a darn sight cheaper now.
@smallbluemachine
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks China!
@toneskill
4 жыл бұрын
I remember. and a beautiful white Christmas back then
@Lt.GonvilleBromhead
4 жыл бұрын
Took the words out of my mouth. A lovely white Christmas indeed.
@weetabix2
4 жыл бұрын
......the irony is that the ‘white’ Christmas is held in honour of a marginalised Jew....Go figure!
@alanssnack1192
4 жыл бұрын
racialist
@toneskill
4 жыл бұрын
how is that racist. playing the race card. I was talking about snow.
@alanssnack1192
4 жыл бұрын
@@toneskill oh sorry, I thought you meant christmas was nicer when there we're more whites.
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