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How to keep in touch with us.Vintage Advertising
Published on January 10th, 2018
Do you remember Cherry Blossom shoe polish, Duraglit, and Robin Starch? Did you smoke Players or Senior Service cigarettes? Did you ‘Drinka Pinta Milka Day’, read ‘Jack and Jill’ and sing along with the Ovaltineys radio show? Here’s a nostalgic collection of Frith photographs of advertisements and billboards from the past, to jog your memories!
Photo: Southwold, High Street 1896.
‘We are the Ovaltineys, Happy girls and boys...... No merrier children could be seen, Because we all drink Ovaltine, We're happy girls and boys.’
Photo: Ingleton, The Village 1890.
Photo: Blackpool, North Shore 1890.
Photo: Gowerton, c.1955.
Photo: Spilsby, The Terrace c.1955.
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