Here's a lovely blast from the past - an Esso Blue illuminated sign, seen above unilluminated, featuring Joe the Esso Blue dealer, b...

Picture the scene: it's 1956 and your darling daughter is about to be married. You, her loving mother, know all about pre-wedding ne...

A 1961 newspaper ad - sensible people (and dogs) it seemed had pink paraffin delivered. Cute, wasn't he? Well, we've already t...

Saturday - the cat that got the (real dairy) cream. It was appropriate, of course, to have a cat advertising Real Dairy Cream. And why...

This is Mr Mix, my old hand puppet, issued as a special offer from Nesquik back in the late 1960s. Mr Mix's reign as star of Nesqu...

A white feather and the contempt of many of your family, friends and neighbours, or the "King's uniform" and "do your...

Ah, the Cradocks! Forthright Fanny and jolly Johnnie! He all bumble and monocle, she all fire and fervour. A great pairing, who rose to fa...

The Michelin Man! We like him. Back when I was a kid, Doreen, who lived next door-but-one to us, had the ashtray - and I coveted it. But...

We'll dart back to the 1920s now, where we find that Mary had a little lamb with lots of HP Sauce. Note Mary's little lamb on whe...

17 December, 1981. Citizens' Band Radio was here! The equipment seems absurdly pricey by today's standards. But technology has mo...

Here's English actor Melvyn Hayes featuring in a magazine ad for Long John - "SOTCH with that ten foot feeling" - in 1968. M...

This lovable little animated chap is known to many of us as he appeared in a long series of TV, newspaper and magazine ads from 1958 un...

English newspaper advertisements tracing the spread of the Zam-Buk herbal balm from England - where it was first manufactured and sold by CE...

A very early Yeast Vite bottle - "The New And Wonderful Treatment of Pure Yeast Vitamins". A box of Yeast Vite was always to be ...

A fondly remembered TV ad, featuring Jenny Logan doing a wonderful 1950s style song and dance routine around her living room as she sprinkle...

A fuel saving reminder from the Ministry of Fuel and Power - and inspiration for popular 1970s and '80s television presenter and comedia...

Rennies indigestion tablets - tried and trusted!

Colgate - Don't be guilty of oral offence!

This is "Smurf of the Month", July 1979 - one of a series of collectable figurines, available at National petrol stations. The Smu...

Having just been told by her grandson Anthony that he's flunked his exams, passing only pottery and sociology, Beattie says: "He ge...