Certainly the first few adverts that mentioned the sales starting on Monday 27th or Tuesday 29th were from 1982. The next time those dates fell on those days were about 10 years or so later in the early 1990s (due to leap years it skipped them). There, you can all now sleep at night.
That classic cliché "Sale starts 10 am Boxing Day" while watching ad breaks of films following The Queen on Christmas Day. Now I would call it a game of "count the DFS adverts". Notice how very few DFS adverts were on back then. I saw around a dozen of them while watching The Lion King when it was on after The Queen on Christmas Day 2016.
Blimey...god bless you for your care and dedication in compiling and uploading this. Social history in its own way.
Certainly the first few adverts that mentioned the sales starting on Monday 27th or Tuesday 29th were from 1982. The next time those dates fell on those days were about 10 years or so later in the early 1990s (due to leap years it skipped them).
There, you can all now sleep at night.
Back in the day when everything was closed on boxing day and the sales started the next day, how it should be.
Queensway was open boxing day. and so were a lot of other stores.
Just brilliant!!!
Brilliant Neil thanks
Equally noticeable, how Primark is pronounced as 'Pre-mark' instead of 'Pry-mark'.
Everyone I know pronounced it "Pree-mark' in the 80s and I can't get out of that habit!
They were using ‘everyone’s a winner’ in adverts back then and all!
That classic cliché "Sale starts 10 am Boxing Day" while watching ad breaks of films following The Queen on Christmas Day. Now I would call it a game of "count the DFS adverts". Notice how very few DFS adverts were on back then. I saw around a dozen of them while watching The Lion King when it was on after The Queen on Christmas Day 2016.
The companies' desperation of selling, which is understandable. It is now Black Friday.