ADVERTS : Old Adverts from times past in Newcastle and the North East

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Wildcat45

Remember the TV Ad, sung to a cheesy tune? "From Newcastle to London, from London back home....Non-stop Clipper, here it comes!"

Love the fact they advertise Stotties for sale. A little bit of Geordie sovereign territory making its way along the great noth road to that London.

I went on it once when I was a kid. I really wanted to use the mobile 'phone but the teacher wouldn't let me. It was a bloody long 5 hours when you think
a Trident or BAC One-Eleven could get you there in an hour or an inter-city 125 in 3.

Didn't it fold after some sort of tragedy? A crash on the A1 or M1? Round about the time of the Bucks Fizz crash at the Blue House roundabout.

Wasn't it just a case of Armstrong Galleys disappearing following the Stagecoach takeover?

This from Wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busways...rvices?oldid=0

Armstrong Galley

On 24 August 1973, Tyne and Wear PTE acquired two associated Newcastle-based businesses, R. Armstrong (Bus Proprietor) Ltd. and Galley’s Coaches Ltd., and immediately the "Armstrong Galley" name was adopted for the PTE's coaching and private hire division.

Initially retaining the original PTE yellow and cream colours (of Newcastle Corporation), a new colour scheme of mid-blue with yellow, orange and red stripes was adopted around 1980.

Armstrong Galley introduced a flagship service to London in the early 1980s, competing with National Express, and branded "Non-Stop Clipper" and used the striking 3 axle double deck coach, the MCW Metroliner.

The Armstrong Galley operations continued unchanged with the creation of Busways in October 1986, but in the early 1990s it expanded into low-cost bus operation (using other divisions' cast-offs), culminating in an "Armstrong Galley Buses" operation being set up. These vehicles used a livery of mid-blue and white After the Stagecoach takeover, the Armstrong Galley operations were closed down, with buses being transferred to Blue Bus Services.

[Newcastle Historian]

Originally Posted by Wildcat45

Remember the TV Ad, sung to a cheesy tune? "From Newcastle to London, from London back home....Non-stop
Clipper!"

Didn't it fold after some sort of tragedy? A crash on the A1 or M1? Round about the time of the Bucks Fizz crash at the Blue House roundabout.

Originally Posted by Steve Ellwood

Wasn't it just a case of Armstrong Galleys disappearing following the Stagecoach takeover?
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This is the story, as reported at the time . . .

[Steve Ellwood]

This advert from circa 1992 has a picture of the Clipper included

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Newcastle Historian

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Some more 'Local Adverts', this time from the 5th of my 1966 Volumes of Newcastle Life - Volume 9, Number 68, May 1966 . . .

This months NEWCASTLE LIFE contained a 'feature article' about CHAPMANS OF SIESTA HOUSE, hence there were quite a few adverts about them too . .





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Interesting to see that Ray Marshall's "Remember When " page in Saturdays Newcastle Evening Chronicle (21st January 2012) was dedicated to the story and history of Chapmans Furniture Shop.

[Newcastle Historian]

Originally Posted by Seamaster

I always enjoy these, thanks for taking the trouble to scan and upload them.

Glad you have enjoyed them, I have certainly enjoyed looking through these magazines and posting the scans!

Sadly, the 'September 1984' issue of Northern Life is the last one that I have.

I do have other sources of Old Adverts from our region though, and am about to start looking through one of those in the next few days.

For ease of looking back through them, here is a list of LINKS (an actual extract from the Index Thread) to all the Newcastle Life and Northern Life adverts that I have posted on this thread:

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ADVERTS / ADVERTISEMENTS - OLD ADVERTS FROM NEWCASTLE AND THE NORTH EAST . . .

Newcastle Life . . .
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 8, No. 64, January 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=133
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=135
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 9, No. 65, February 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=153
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 9, No. 66, March 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=162
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 9, No. 67, April 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=178
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 9, No. 68, May 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=179
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 9, No. 69, June 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=181
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 9, No. 70, July 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=183
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 9, No. 71, August 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=185
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 9, No. 72, September 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=189
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 10, No. 73, October 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=196
Newcastle Life Magazine - Adverts from Volume 10, No. 74, November 1966
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=197
Northern Life . . .
Northern Life Magazine - Adverts from March 1978
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=198
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=199
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=205
Northern Life Magazine - Adverts from November 1978
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=215
Northern Life Magazine - Adverts from November 1979
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=228
Northern Life Magazine - Adverts from September 1984
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=237
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[Newcastle Historian]

Originally Posted by Newcastle Historian

Glad you have enjoyed them, I have certainly enjoyed looking through these magazines and posting the scans! I do have other sources of Old Adverts from our region though, and am about to start looking through one of those in the next few days.

Those of you who read the "Tyne Valley - Developments" thread will know that I am writing a Family History book, and that I am currently using diaries, photos, documents, etc - from the 1950s era in Hexham. Part of the collections of documents I am using include old copies of the "Hexham Courant" newspaper.

Some of those are actually from the 1940s (rather than the 1950s) and here are some ADVERTS from one of them . . .


Hexham Courant, Friday August 6th 1948.

[Newcastle Historian]

Life as a Student in Newcastle - in 1963
Told via the ADVERTS that were aimed specifically at students, that year.

1963 was an important year for students in Newcastle. In July the "Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne Act" received Royal Assent, and 'Kings College' was separated from the University of Durham and established as the University of Newcastle upon Tyne wef 1st August 1963.

My father had worked for 'The Rector of Kings College' since 1962, and he was now (by default) working for the 'Vice Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne'. His Diary that year was a Kings College Diary, and contained a lot of adverts, aimed at students . . .





































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[Newcastle Historian]

Originally Posted by Steve Ellwood; November 13th 2011

Some fine adverts there. There was also a magazine called "Geordie Life" in the 1970's - anyone remember that one?

I didn't think that I had kept any copies of that, in fact I initially 'couldn't remember it' at all!

Found a copy though, not put away in the right place (but it is now) from January 1977.

There are not very many ADVERTS in it though, but I have scanned in what there was, including another one for the recently discussed (on this forum)
"LA STALLA" Italian Restaurant, just off Pilgrim Street . . .




















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[Newcastle Historian]

Something different . . .





There are quite a few interesting ADVERTS in the above 1926 copy of "The Journal", a fair few of them on the front page, as used to be the fashion.

This time though, I thought I would show some of the old adverts from this paper in a slightly different way . . .

So I have initially picked only four adverts, all from retailers, and next to each advert I have put a photo that I have found of the actual shop that placed the advert!

Also, as far as possible, each shop photo is from roughly the era of the advert . . .



















PHOTO from the middle address, 99 Grey Street, taken in 2010 with the shopfront still bearing the Newcastle Breweries name.

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[Newcastle Historian]

I was looking through some of my Newcastle United files, from the 1960s and 1970s, for a photo of Wyn 'the Leap' Davies, to go with the article about Wyn supporting a proposed 'Joe Harvey Statue' (posted on the "St James' Park" thread) when I came across this little book.

It is the Annual Newcastle Brown Ale "Fixture List Book", from the 1975/1976 season, which was my first season back home after a few years living in London.

It contains a LOT of adverts . . .

[growly grace]

So the little "newcastle breweries" on Grey Street would have been an off licence rather than a pub?

[Newcastle Historian]

Originally Posted by growly grace

So the little "newcastle breweries" on Grey Street would have been an off licence rather than a pub?

Yes, it would seem so.

Here is all the information that we have on the forum, about "99 Grey Street" . . .

The old "Newcastle Breweries Ltd" shop at 99 Grey Street
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=416
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=249
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...postcount=1957
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...postcount=1958
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[Newcastle Historian]

There is an interesting site on Facebook called Newcastle upon Tyne Old Adverts. This website has been included in Section 09 of our forum Websites Listing Thread, for quite some time.

If you look at their collection of PHOTOS & SCANS, you will see that they have used a lot of photos and scans from this thread, which I recognise because I scanned them in!

Now, it is an excellent website and the organisers seem very interested in their subject and adopt a pleasant and informative approach in all of their dealings, but unfortunately they have never given us here (in the Newcastle Forum of Skyscraper City) any credit at all for our work that they have used.

I am sure this was just an oversight on their part, and I have not discussed this with them at all. It is not a 'legal requirement' to give credit to sources, it is up to the policy of the website involved.

However, as you know, "giving credit" (and linking back to the source) when using the work of other people is something we are very hot on at SSC (and I feel correctly so) with the topic often being mentioned in our Admin Thread.

Anyway . . . I recommend a visit to their website, if you are interested in 'old adverts' from the Newcastle Area.

As a taster, here are a few adverts from that website, that are new to this thread. There are enough on there for quite a few posts, though the precise date and ultimate origin of the adverts (which we normally state on this thread) is not always clear on these, as a result of my getting them from a third-party (the Facebook site).

The Facebook source of these old adverts is quoted at the bottom of this post.


























Source - http://www.facebook.com/groups/newca...castleadverts/

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[newcastlepubs]

Is that Spillers ad Milk Market-Love lane ?

[Newcastle Historian]

Originally Posted by newcastlepubs

Is that Spillers ad Milk Market-Love lane ?

Not Love Lane (I used to work in the 'Love Lane Bonded Warehouses') as they were owned, long term, by the Newcastle Warehousing Co Ltd.

These Spillers premises were further West along the Quayside, on 'The Close', though I'm not certain exactly where.

Steve Ellwood may know though, as I have now realised that I made a mistake including that Spillers Advert under the heading of "those new to this thread", as in fact Steve had posted this himself, back in February last year . . .

Originally Posted by Steve Ellwood; February 26th 2011

Spillers & Bakers advert from the time that they on The Close.

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[newcastlepubs]

Originally Posted by Newcastle Historian

Not Love Lane (I used to work in the 'Love Lane Bonded Warehouses') as they were owned, long term, by the Newcastle Warehousing Co Ltd.

These Spillers premises were further West along the Quayside, on 'The Close', though I'm not certain exactly where.

Steve Ellwood may know though, as I have now realised that I made a mistake including that Spillers Advert under the heading of "those new to this thread", as in fact Steve had posted this himself, back in February last year . . .



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D'oh, of course... if it was Love Lane the river would have had to have moved , ooops !

Can t see anything in the historical '45 imagery but obviously hard to tell

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Newcastle Historian

There is an interesting site on Facebook called Newcastle upon Tyne Old Adverts. This website has been included in Section 09 of our forum Websites Listing Thread, for quite some time.

If you look at their collection of PHOTOS & SCANS, you will see that they have used a lot of photos and scans from this thread, which I recognise because I scanned them in!

Now, it is an excellent website and the organisers seem very interested in their subject and adopt a pleasant and informative approach in all of their dealings, but unfortunately they have never given us here (in the Newcastle Forum of Skyscraper City) any credit at all for our work that they have used.

I am sure this was just an oversight on their part, and I have not discussed this with them at all. It is not a 'legal requirement' to give credit to sources, it is up to the policy of the website involved.

However, as you know, "giving credit" (and linking back to the source) when using the work of other people is something we are very hot on at SSC (and I feel correctly so) with the topic often being mentioned in our Admin Thread.

Anyway . . . I recommend a visit to their website, if you are interested in 'old adverts' from the Newcastle Area.

As a taster, here are a few adverts from that website, that are new to this thread. There are enough on there for quite a few posts, though the precise date and ultimate origin of the adverts (which we normally state on this thread) is not always clear on these, as a result of my getting them from a third-party (the Facebook site).

The Facebook source of these old adverts is quoted at the bottom of this post.

Source - http://www.facebook.com/groups/newca...castleadverts/

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Yes NH, I see scans and photographs from the Newcastle Forum of Skyscraper City cropping up on a regular basis on various Newcastle orientated Facebook Pages without any credit being given to the original source - but hey, ho, that seems to be the nature of Facebook. Of course if I see any of my photographs I always insert a comment to confirm the source but do wish credit would be given - not bothered about them being used but just ask for a little courtesy.

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Newcastle Historian

Not Love Lane (I used to work in the 'Love Lane Bonded Warehouses') as they were owned, long term, by the Newcastle Warehousing Co Ltd.

These Spillers premises were further West along the Quayside, on 'The Close', though I'm not certain exactly where.

Steve Ellwood may know though, as I have now realised that I made a mistake including that Spillers Advert under the heading of "those new to this thread", as in fact Steve had posted this himself, back in February last year . . .
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The premises on Close was the Phoenix Mill which had been built by J Davidson & Sons as a replacement for their premises in Gateshead which was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1854.

Spillars purchased the Mill during 1896 and the Phoenix Mill suffered a direct hit by the Luftwaffe in 1940 and was demolished thereafter. It was claimed that the Luftwaffe were targeting the High Level Bridge but missed.

This from The North East Diary 1939-45 @ http://www.ne-diary.bpears.org.uk/Inc/ISeq_04.html

Tuesday, 2nd July 1940 D304

Newcastle and Jarrow were attacked during the late afternoon. The damage was considerable. A single German Dornier bomber passed over Blaydon, shot down a balloon and dropped bombs on Newcastle and Jarrow.

17.30.. Newcastle.. HEs on The Close and Forth Street. A single HE on Spillers Ltd warehouse where a man, called John Kelly (28), who was locking up the gates of Spiller's was killed, five suffered minor injuries. The second fell on the engineering works of Hawthorn Leslie and Co Ltd, Forth Street. A third fell into the Tyne between the King Edward Bridge and the High Level Bridge and the last one fell into the Tyne on the seaward side of the Tyne Bridge. These were the first bombs to fall in Newcastle. There was no panic but sightseers were a considerable nuisance.

NH previously posted an old photograph showing the World War 2 damage to the Mill @ http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...y#post45368577



This was the location of the Phoenix Mill shown on the 1894 OS Map:

[alf stone]

Originally Posted by Newcastle Historian

This one was also published last year by me. I recognise the nick in the right hand side.

[Newcastle Historian]

Originally Posted by Newcastle Historian; April 1st 2012

There is an interesting site on Facebook called Newcastle upon Tyne Old Adverts. This website has been included in Section 09 of our forum Websites Listing Thread, for quite some time. If you look at their collection of PHOTOS & SCANS, you will see that they have used a lot of photos and scans from this thread, which I recognise because I scanned them in!

Now, it is an excellent website and the organisers seem very interested in their subject and adopt a pleasant and informative approach in all of their dealings, but unfortunately they have never given us here (in the Newcastle Forum of Skyscraper City) any credit at all for our work that they have used. I am sure this was just an oversight on their part, and I have not discussed this with them at all. It is not a 'legal requirement' to give credit to sources, it is up to the policy of the website involved.

However, as you know, "giving credit" (and linking back to the source) when using the work of other people is something we are very hot on at SSC (and I feel correctly so) with the topic often being mentioned in our Admin Thread. Anyway . . . I recommend a visit to their website, if you are interested in 'old adverts' from the Newcastle Area.

As a taster, here are a few adverts from that website, that are new to this thread. There are enough on there for quite a few posts, though the precise date and ultimate origin of the adverts (which we normally state on this thread) is not always clear on these, as a result of my getting them from a third-party (the Facebook site). The Facebook source of these old adverts is quoted at the bottom of this post.
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Here is a second set of 'Old Local Adverts', from the same Facebook Site . . .














































Finally - a "not quite real" one, I think . . .




Source - http://www.facebook.com/groups/newca...castleadverts/

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