@@servicekid7453 Well yeah what do you take me for a banana or something? I was in my prime in the 90s early 00s, i had Peggy and Pat on the go at the same time me old mucka, it just can't be beaten can it now?. 😏😂😂
Making me cry watching this, so many memories of stores and by-gone traditions. I remember all of these adverts and having only 4 channels. Yet life was better, Wish I could go back.
The more you watch this, the stronger the nostalgia and the stronger the depression looking at all the celebs that have died and the business that no longer exist, mum dive bombing the woolworths post Christmas sales.
Nearly 40 years ago our family was delighted with our first VCR. Amongst it's many talents was to fast forward through adverts. Skip forward to now and I have just spent 30 minutes watching those adverts. Time is a funny thing!
ha ha So true and i remember my parents first VHS player, it was in 1984 and it was on rental ...i used to be so excited going to choose a video form the video shop to loan for the weekend 👌📼😁
@@taraelizabethdensley9475 Me too. My dad died in 1997, but mum only died 2 years ago. Although that's not 'recent' it's still so painful. I think "oh, I must tell my mum that..." Then it hits home, again, and I feel like a lost Child. Sadly, it's the same for all of us, at some time. Being the oldest Generation in the Family, with nobody to turn to for advice, or a few words of Wisdom when needed, sucks 😢 I treasure so many happy memories, but these Adverts made me feel happy, AND sad, at the same time
As a child I would buy all the ladies a Yardley bath cube and the men a comb from the local chemist. Back in the days whena small gift was all that was expected, and it really was the thought that counted. I loved watching this, I'm in my 60s now, and my children were all young in the 80s, such lovely heartwarming memories. Thank you x
You & I are from the same generation, Anna; indeed, it was the thought that counted (& appreciated by the recipient), not the begrudgery that is so evident now....salad days.....
No annoying man talking about his funeral plan and his hard partying family (switch to a dreary bunch of people). Then he appears on two other adverts one for bullion, the other Verisure alarms.
Oil of Ulay and the tweed perfume ad remind me of my mum who left us in 2013 hope you are somewhere mum somewhere nice thanks for all the Christmas times we shared 🙏
This was like a warm hug. I was recently thinking has the world really changed that much, or is it just because I’m not a child anymore. The answer is yes, it has. I don’t even recognise the world anymore and I’m only 42.
With what’s going on in the country at the minute I’d gladly go back to the 80’s That size tin of quality street now would cost about £20! Great compilation, throughly enjoyed them.😊
Chocolates now are substantially cheaper in real terms than they were then. In fact, most consumer goods were massively more expensive back then. A tin of Quality Street that size back then would have cost the equivalent of around £40 in 2023 money.
I used to love going to Woolworths as a teenager in the 90s. I'd usually buy Christmas presents there with my friends and I think it was where my mum bought our Christmas chocolate.
It was just as good in the 70s & 80s too. Such a great all-purpose shop, particularly good at Christmas time. A shop I grew up with. So sad it's gone forever.
I actually remember every single one of these - what a trip down memory lane! Had to explain the joys of shopping at Woolworth's to my 20yr old....and he couldn't get over the size of the tins of QS and roses!x
Ah life was better back then. When you had to buy a magazine to find out what was on Tele, when chocolate tins were a decent size, when lager could be advertised as a cartoon, cassettes were on sale, Oxo adverts, Woolworths, Rudolph drinking booze, Yardley rose talc, televisions made of timber... Easier times and much more real than the shite of today.
The adverts seemed to be so much more organic in those days and represented the feeling of Christmas in a more wholesome kind of way. Nowadays so many seem to be contrived and have another subliminal message they're trying to brainwash us with and over do it to be inclusive. Plus the size of those selection tins 😮 forgotten how much they'd shrunk.
Wow! The shrinkflation is clear as day with those roses and quality street. Also, when animated butter characters singing a medley to thank viewers for their custom through the year is a lot less cynical and greedy and more fun than a 10 million quid John Lewis ad you realise it's not just because you're older now, Christmas was just more christmasy, then than it is now. Also also, not sure why UA-cam thought to show me this vid in October, but it did and I'm happy, it was nice : )
It is strange .. this video did well last year when I relesed it four weeks before Christmas day, but it's been on the rise again for about the last week this year. There'll be a Volume 2 of Christmas ads this year, so watch out for that.
I long for those days when life was magic and you had to get off your backside to change the channels on the TV!by far my biggest childhood memories were of how special Xmas was,the build up of excitement to the big day and not being able to sleep on Xmas eve because of the excitement! My dad worked hard all year to give us the best Xmas ever and to see him on Xmas morning watching us open our presents and smile at all of us is a special memory that's as strong now as it was back then!seeing this video brings back memories of the wonderful and caring dad he was! Rip dad 😢❤
I'm fuming just relisied there missing biscuits from the family circle, and quality street tin was so big you could live in it lol wow loving the memories
Love it...right up my street and makes me feel kind of warm and fuzzy re watching all these old adverts form my childhood..Brilliant, thank you for uploading this , Sonique 📺🥰
I love watching these commercials( adverts) from the UK!!! The Christmas ones are my favorite! Seems like they were better in the 60s, 70s and 80s!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Back then the size of the tins of quality street, and Roses were so much than the plastic ones we get these days. And oh, don't I miss Woolworths. Quite sad looking back. 😢
I am from the States but we always had Yardley's lavender soaps in our house. The bars were larger then standard American ones at the time. Reminds me of cashmere bouquet.
Gamely Toys in Scotland were Toymaster stores as far as I can remember. Some of those Advertisements bring back memories when I was a wee kid. Yes, Just Brazil’s is under a different brand name and more or less in health food stores as chocolate Brazils. Personally Roses/Quality Street debate it’s ever shrinking Tub, 325gms one year. And both always wrapped! I don’t like fondant cream centres, coffee, and both had dark chocolate pieces if I remember correctly. Think that there’s always more toffee pennies in a tub of quality street anyway. Roses, last box that I had was nothing but coconut caramels, became my most hated. Prefer quality darker chocolate than that! Family circle or Peak Friens biscuits at Xmas? Family arguments are quite classic. My gran always had a tin of Crawford’s eww! Shudder at the naff shortbread cookies and Abernathy biscuits. Now I do remember 7 days of Turkey hell! One Xmas. I don’t think my mum has ever bought Turkey ever again! 22lb monster! Even the dog turned his nose at the Turkey! We’re quite happy with a Steak Pie. Not one of us really cares about traditional style of Xmas dishes these days.
Same here on the turkey issue. We've been having chicken or beef & all the trimmings for years now. I'm all for starting new traditions, too. For a couple of years we've been treating ourselves to a massive box of Burts crisps that last us over the season. We'll probably be giving the Roses a miss this year, too.
today on ReWatch : Turkey Travails, the Sundae after Thanksgorging here, the traditional Turkey Tetrazini ; creamy turkey something or other on pasta, easy way to say a final farewell to the dry-bird, no leftovers. LOL Gobble Gobble !!!
Just found this and was driven to comment due to the Roses chocolates. I used to teach art in Richmond on Thames and one of my pupils in the 70-80s was the daughter of the guy who designed the Roses graphics used on all their chocolates. She was also very talented.
That is such an awesome story! I love how these old ads being this stuff out. The other day someone commented who'd been the baby in one of the kitchen towel ads on another compilation! 😄
My heart longs for the days when life was worth living and Christmas was all about family time and enjoying anything that you received from Santa for Christmas. To all the people who feel the same may l wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it arrives. Xx
It does. Actually bought a tear to my eye. Magical times growing up. No family left now. I always feel tearful at Christmas time, remembering how it used to be 😢
@@aubreyheartburn I feel that started to cry the other day when out shopping realised no one left to wrap or buy presents for all gone only my husband and we don't bother for each other its so sad.
@@RetroSteveUK same here ! My hubby bought in other day , we don’t even watch tv I cancelled my license and sent virgin box back . 😂😂 daft sod spending a fiver to sit next to a derelict tv 😂😂😂😂😂 I suppose Netflix is in mag ! 😂😂😂
Well I think back in the 1970s / early 1980s, Christmas stuff appeared on shop / supermarket shelves in November (after Bonfire Night, possibly as late as after Remembrance Sunday), not September / October like now.
You could. Christmas mattered. Nowadays you can hardly wish someone a merry christmas, the cops will come round and arrest you for offending someones foreign religion, won't they? Anyway, it's all about selling stuff now, isnt it. Practically begin marketing the bloody stuff in august.
Christmas Day felt a bit flat after the presents had been unwrapped and dinner was over. Especially when the sun was out and it was a really mild day, no snow like the Christmas cards promised us! Boxing Day just felt a bit depressing and there was the thought that it would be another year, which felt like 5 years does when you get to 50. I've always preferred Christmas Eve when the atmosphere you mention was still thick in the air. The journey's better than the destination.
I would go back even further, to the 60's, just to be with Grandma & Grandad and my dear old Dad, safe in the knowledge that life then was good and I hadn't a care in the world.
I loved the 80s too. They seem so idyllic because we were kids at that time, without the responsibilities we have now, and to us, our futures were full of possibilities and promise. If we'd been a bit older and struggling to find a job, or if our dad had been a miner, our memories would be much less rosy.
The best and happiest days of my life.. I loved Christmas back then.I remember all these adverts… great memories for me especially of my Nan.. She spoiled us rotten!! Bless her
@@joannedixon-jackson7348 I've still got a 2kg Tin ..which I keep my sewing stuff in.. Now they range from 640 grams to 860 grams.. But they expect us to pay a similar high price !!
Look at the size of those Quality Street and Roses tins - enormous! The ones these days look about a third of the size. We used to get a tin of Quality Street every Christmas and there were plenty of sweets for a family of six to last for a couple of weeks.
@@michelles2299 Particularly the coconut and the coffee creams - my brother had to eat those because nobody else would eat them. I was an adult before I could try a green triangle as mum banned us from eating any of them!
@@catwoman7462 Lol. I hate coffee and my kids used to wrap the coffee ones up in the different wrappers and watch me run to the bin choking and gagging and swearing my head off
@@catwoman7462 Oh I know! My Grandad always bought his 3 daughters a 2lb box of Milktray and if any of us went in and took a turkish delight it would cause WW3 and my mum was the nuclear bomb.
They really weren't though were they. They were shit, there were barely any shows and virtually none of them are remembered fondly or have aged well. It's an absolute insult to shows like The Bear, Succession, Ted Lasso, Derry Girls, The Boys, Veep, The Last of Us, Line of Duty, Twin Peaks: The Return, The Umbrella Academy, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Cobra Kai, Happy Valley, to name but a few, all this incredible television that's been created in what's been a golden age for it in recent times, shows that will go down as all time greats, for you to be comparing them unfavourably to limited hours TV and badly acted soaps. Ditch the nostalgia bias for christ sake, the only good thing to come out of 70s TV was Fawlty Towers.
We have the Victorians to thank for all the Christmas crap, buying a pile of shit you don't need and cant afford, then spending January broke. Should have just left it a church holiday instead of turning it into a month long spending spree.
Brilliant thanks for the memories I loved the adverts when I was a kid through the 70's&80's. Who remembers the excitement of getting the Argos catalogue, we were skint, but I could dream going through the toy section with my pen marking off what I would love
You are so right about greed and wickedness did you know that the Bible speaks of this time we are all living in Timothy second C3v1 says that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here for men women will be lovers of money and that there will be no natural affection when ever I read that it makes me think of the news Eileen
Adverts were much better back in the day. Today's ads for the most part are pretentious and seldom clear as to what they're advertising. Thanks for uploading.
I've felt the same lately, but I've been trying to work out if it's just my perception. Now I'm more cynical as an adult but wasn't so much as a kid, maybe I was just 'taken in' more easily back then. It's very rare these days for an advert to win me over.
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We have got to the stage where 30 yr old TV adverts have more entertainment value than current TV programmes.
I can't argue with that! 🤣
It's more likely that they hold good memories of growing up around family where as now family time is hardly about with 24 hours working.
@@daviddarrington3267 .. and faces buried in phones half the time, too.
Very true. 👍
Yep 👍
OMG so much nostalgia. It was a kinder, simpler and more magical world in the 70s & 80s
The 90s early 00s beat it for me.
well apart from the vicious child abuse it was alright
@@BHALT0S sadly that’s still with us today, not everything has changed for the better 😢
@@DTM93 Mike Reid disagrees! 🤣 Runaround……. NOOOWWWWW 🤣🤣
@@servicekid7453 Well yeah what do you take me for a banana or something? I was in my prime in the 90s early 00s, i had Peggy and Pat on the go at the same time me old mucka, it just can't be beaten can it now?. 😏😂😂
Making me cry watching this, so many memories of stores and by-gone traditions. I remember all of these adverts and having only 4 channels. Yet life was better, Wish I could go back.
Me tooo
I was only 5 back in 1989 but I remember how much better times was then even the early 90s so much better than now
The more you watch this, the stronger the nostalgia and the stronger the depression looking at all the celebs that have died and the business that no longer exist, mum dive bombing the woolworths post Christmas sales.
Nearly 40 years ago our family was delighted with our first VCR. Amongst it's many talents was to fast forward through adverts. Skip forward to now and I have just spent 30 minutes watching those adverts. Time is a funny thing!
Humans. We're so weird, right? 😂
ha ha So true and i remember my parents first VHS player, it was in 1984 and it was on rental ...i used to be so excited going to choose a video form the video shop to loan for the weekend 👌📼😁
🤣🤣🤣
So much nostalgia for me here ...seems a long time ago
Pity we can't fast forward through UA-cam ads
I miss my Mum and Dad!
🫂
I to miss my parents
@@taraelizabethdensley9475 Me too. My dad died in 1997, but mum only died 2 years ago. Although that's not 'recent' it's still so painful. I think "oh, I must tell my mum that..." Then it hits home, again, and I feel like a lost Child. Sadly, it's the same for all of us, at some time. Being the oldest Generation in the Family, with nobody to turn to for advice, or a few words of Wisdom when needed, sucks 😢 I treasure so many happy memories, but these Adverts made me feel happy, AND sad, at the same time
@@jacqueline8559it be two years in February since I lost my mum. Trust me two years is still very raw so be kind to yourself. Have a lovely Christmas
As a child I would buy all the ladies a Yardley bath cube and the men a comb from the local chemist. Back in the days whena small gift was all that was expected, and it really was the thought that counted. I loved watching this, I'm in my 60s now, and my children were all young in the 80s, such lovely heartwarming memories. Thank you x
You & I are from the same generation, Anna; indeed, it was the thought that counted (& appreciated by the recipient), not the begrudgery that is so evident now....salad days.....
Everyone hated your gifts back then, you were a stingy kid.
I rember getting Yardley bath cubes when iwas 14 iwas so happy 😂 and the excitement of getting Yardley lace perfume.were definitely happy with less.
When we were happy to get a gift from the Argos catalogue. Now it has to be a phone worth £100s 🤷♀️
I'm generation X and small gifts were just as appreciated as big ones, and we didn't leave mum to do all the baking, but would help. Happy memories
No banking no gambling no betting ads just happy fun at Christmas in the 80s.
Absolutley 👌👌😊
My thoughts exactly 💯
No annoying man talking about his funeral plan and his hard partying family (switch to a dreary bunch of people). Then he appears on two other adverts one for bullion, the other Verisure alarms.
Awesome, quite frankly if I could go back to the 80's right now, I certainly would. better times
No, things definitely better now. But you're not a kid anymore.
@@ok2760 in some ways yes but in many ways nope.
@Alex M1973 there's a pandemic on Alex if you hadn't noticed
@@ok2760 There actually isn't. Please turn off your TV, open your eyes and do some independent research.
@@aubreyheartburn you mean on Facebook of course. Of course you do.
Oil of Ulay and the tweed perfume ad remind me of my mum who left us in 2013 hope you are somewhere mum somewhere nice thanks for all the Christmas times we shared 🙏
My mum always used to have Oil of Ulay. Hold on to those happy memories! 🤗
This was like a warm hug. I was recently thinking has the world really changed that much, or is it just because I’m not a child anymore. The answer is yes, it has. I don’t even recognise the world anymore and I’m only 42.
Yes indeed, it has.
I'm 39 and feel the same. It has changed so much, my city is now totally different to how it was growing up. Its hard not to feel totally lost.
The world has definitely changed, and not for the better, and i'm 44
Not much makes me smile these days but this did!😁
to think that you were overjoyed when you opened a present on Christmas morning and it was a 5 or 10 pack of BLANK cassettes....seems weird now !
With what’s going on in the country at the minute I’d gladly go back to the 80’s
That size tin of quality street now would cost about £20! Great compilation, throughly enjoyed them.😊
Chocolates now are substantially cheaper in real terms than they were then. In fact, most consumer goods were massively more expensive back then. A tin of Quality Street that size back then would have cost the equivalent of around £40 in 2023 money.
Ah. Yardley, Linda Bellingham, Woolies...such lovely memories.
I used to love going to Woolworths as a teenager in the 90s. I'd usually buy Christmas presents there with my friends and I think it was where my mum bought our Christmas chocolate.
It was just as good in the 70s & 80s too. Such a great all-purpose shop, particularly good at Christmas time. A shop I grew up with. So sad it's gone forever.
@@RetroSteveUKits online these days.
Oh to go back to the 80s. I had the rest of my life in front of me and it was great. Happy days.
I actually remember every single one of these - what a trip down memory lane! Had to explain the joys of shopping at Woolworth's to my 20yr old....and he couldn't get over the size of the tins of QS and roses!x
Brilliant! Hard to convey to those who didn't live through it.
Ah life was better back then. When you had to buy a magazine to find out what was on Tele, when chocolate tins were a decent size, when lager could be advertised as a cartoon, cassettes were on sale, Oxo adverts, Woolworths, Rudolph drinking booze, Yardley rose talc, televisions made of timber... Easier times and much more real than the shite of today.
Absolutely. I second that! 👍
Yeah and if tele broke you had it fixed, not chuck it, and none of this reality crap,,
@@lindabiggs3905 We always used to rent our telly. If anything went wrong someone from the shop would come round and mend or replace it.
spot on
@@lindabiggs3905 my grandads method for fixing the telly was to give it a good thump on the top 🤣
28 of the best minutes I have ever spent, Steve!
Thanks! You just made my day. 🤗
Thanks for this. All of a sudden I was a kid again!! They don't make them like this anymore. 🇬🇧
The adverts seemed to be so much more organic in those days and represented the feeling of Christmas in a more wholesome kind of way.
Nowadays so many seem to be contrived and have another subliminal message they're trying to brainwash us with and over do it to be inclusive.
Plus the size of those selection tins 😮 forgotten how much they'd shrunk.
Wow!
The shrinkflation is clear as day with those roses and quality street.
Also, when animated butter characters singing a medley to thank viewers for their custom through the year is a lot less cynical and greedy and more fun than a 10 million quid John Lewis ad you realise it's not just because you're older now, Christmas was just more christmasy, then than it is now.
Also also, not sure why UA-cam thought to show me this vid in October, but it did and I'm happy, it was nice : )
It is strange .. this video did well last year when I relesed it four weeks before Christmas day, but it's been on the rise again for about the last week this year. There'll be a Volume 2 of Christmas ads this year, so watch out for that.
Fantastic, the days when ads were entertaining, amusing and funny. These days, doom and gloom, life insurance and charities...end of story!
Ads feel more patronising these days to me, and a lot more irritating in some cases. Could be I'm getting more cynical as I get older.
And those sick sentimental ads featuring children and a living teddy bear or a space alien . Yuck pass me the sick bag.
I long for those days when life was magic and you had to get off your backside to change the channels on the TV!by far my biggest childhood memories were of how special Xmas was,the build up of excitement to the big day and not being able to sleep on Xmas eve because of the excitement! My dad worked hard all year to give us the best Xmas ever and to see him on Xmas morning watching us open our presents and smile at all of us is a special memory that's as strong now as it was back then!seeing this video brings back memories of the wonderful and caring dad he was! Rip dad 😢❤
Lovely! Very similar memories for me. Also, we had a remote for the TV; it was me! - "Go switch the telly over to ITV, Steve!" 🤣
What a treat! I remember many of these, the Heineken ones are fab 😀
A truly dreadful product !
I'm fuming just relisied there missing biscuits from the family circle, and quality street tin was so big you could live in it lol wow loving the memories
This is the most Christmasy things I've seen so far this Xmas 2022.
You knew when Christmas was on it's way when the Woolies adverts came on the telly.
Loved woolworths at Xmas time as a kid! My dad got me a eric bristow dartsgame one and that gave me my love of darts that will last forever
Love it...right up my street and makes me feel kind of warm and fuzzy re watching all these old adverts form my childhood..Brilliant, thank you for uploading this , Sonique 📺🥰
The size of those Quality Street tins! Those were the days.🎄
Merry Christmas! 😁
@@RetroSteveUK Merry Christmas to you. In April! 🎄
This to me is what christmas was all about........getting the t.v and radio times and seeing what i was going to watch for the next 2 weeks
The country life butter songs at the end brought a nostalgic tear to my eye.
My god!!! I remember then all..When times were good.😭😭😭😭😭
Still miss woolworths
Loved the advert compilation, great nostalgia.
I love watching these commercials( adverts) from the UK!!! The Christmas ones are my favorite! Seems like they were better in the 60s, 70s and 80s!! ❤❤❤❤❤
This was amazing, a lovely nostalgic journey. Thank you
I miss Woolworths! Amazing times, just nostalgia :)
Steve, mate - fanks. Everyone a bona Fide gem. Golden years. Top memories. You’ve nailed nostalgia via impeccably curated clips. Fair play, my friend.
Good selection, the Heineken advert was my favourite 👍
Great memories flooding back with a tear in my eye, thank you for sharing ❤
Watching this on a Saturday night, because there's nothing on the box. The irony :)
Very nostalgic. Even the TV - we had one just like that when we first married lol 😂
I love this I'd go back in time if I could
Look at the size of the tins of Quality Street! Everything costs more and we get less for our money.
Miss Woolworths.
Back then the size of the tins of quality street, and Roses were so much than the plastic ones we get these days. And oh, don't I miss Woolworths. Quite sad looking back. 😢
Thankyou Retro Steve Uk, that was brilliant the content ,the frame of the old tv
OMG look at the size of the tin of quality street back in the day
Better chocolates too 😀
The size of that Quality Street tin! :-)
Wonderful nostalgia.
This gives me some memories! Wow! I remember these or some of them
Magical days full of love unfortunately those days are long gone.....Merry Christmas 🎄 to one and all
We had a tv like this one in the '70s
..I had a Ferguson with a simliar case. Thorn Tx10 chassis.. designed and made in the UK It was excellent too for it's time.
I am from the States but we always had Yardley's lavender soaps in our house. The bars were larger then standard American ones at the time. Reminds me of cashmere bouquet.
The sequins look great on you, and the white just adds a lovely, classy touch. You look awesome in it.
Umm.. ok. 🫤🤣
Gamely Toys in Scotland were Toymaster stores as far as I can remember. Some of those Advertisements bring back memories when I was a wee kid.
Yes, Just Brazil’s is under a different brand name and more or less in health food stores as chocolate Brazils. Personally Roses/Quality Street debate it’s ever shrinking Tub, 325gms one year. And both always wrapped! I don’t like fondant cream centres, coffee, and both had dark chocolate pieces if I remember correctly. Think that there’s always more toffee pennies in a tub of quality street anyway. Roses, last box that I had was nothing but coconut caramels, became my most hated. Prefer quality darker chocolate than that!
Family circle or Peak Friens biscuits at Xmas? Family arguments are quite classic. My gran always had a tin of Crawford’s eww! Shudder at the naff shortbread cookies and Abernathy biscuits.
Now I do remember 7 days of Turkey hell! One Xmas. I don’t think my mum has ever bought Turkey ever again! 22lb monster! Even the dog turned his nose at the Turkey! We’re quite happy with a Steak Pie. Not one of us really cares about traditional style of Xmas dishes these days.
Same here on the turkey issue. We've been having chicken or beef & all the trimmings for years now. I'm all for starting new traditions, too. For a couple of years we've been treating ourselves to a massive box of Burts crisps that last us over the season. We'll probably be giving the Roses a miss this year, too.
today on ReWatch : Turkey Travails, the Sundae after Thanksgorging here, the traditional Turkey Tetrazini ; creamy turkey something or other on pasta, easy way to say a final farewell to the dry-bird, no leftovers. LOL Gobble Gobble !!!
We had that exact telly
Thanks for the Xmas shot of nostalgia :)
How great to see these adverts thanks they are so crap now
The good old days when Cadburys chocolate tasted good!
Those were the days. Thanks for sharing.
Just found this and was driven to comment due to the Roses chocolates. I used to teach art in Richmond on Thames and one of my pupils in the 70-80s was the daughter of the guy who designed the Roses graphics used on all their chocolates. She was also very talented.
That is such an awesome story! I love how these old ads being this stuff out. The other day someone commented who'd been the baby in one of the kitchen towel ads on another compilation! 😄
A lot more alcoholic snowmen then I remember back then 😂
When there was only 4 channels to choose from.
OMG, do you remember how exciting it was when Channel 4 was launched? XD
@@RetroSteveUK Yes indeed, and it use to close down after the ten o'clock news.
Such a massive Quality Street tin! With shrinkflation, it's about 1/4 size now
Everything was good 👍 in those days 🎶 no tiktok no Facebook 👍😄😁🎤🎤🎤
Brilliant thanks for uploading
You're welcome. :)
Look at the size if that Rose's tin!!! Take me back!
A shocking amount of beer ads! I enjoyed these :)
I remember each and every one of these
I wish I could get the festive feeling back.
🎅🏽🤶🏽🎄🎁
Great adverts better than the ones they have now.
"So This Is Christmas" uses the tune of "Come Back to Jamaica", the jungle used in Jamaica tourism adverts.
Warms the cockles.
Blimey, that camcorder was nearly a grand 😮
Look at the size of those tins of chocolates.....ah i remember them well..lasted till easter....well almost😅
If by Easter you mean Boxing day, then yeah.. they lasted 'til Easter! 🤣
Happy Days
Happier times .
Maaaad finding these
Oh the Nostalgia .
My heart longs for the days when life was worth living and Christmas was all about family time and enjoying anything that you received from Santa for Christmas. To all the people who feel the same may l wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it arrives. Xx
Me too Doe, me too.
God bless you Doe. There are many of us feeling exactly as you do. 🎄
Happy Xmas Doe. My heart longs for thoes days also.
Thank you, and the same to you and your family.
I feel the same, but life really is still worth living x
The absolute pang of nostalgia it hurts. Great memories
It does. Actually bought a tear to my eye. Magical times growing up. No family left now. I always feel tearful at Christmas time, remembering how it used to be 😢
@@aubreyheartburn Your name made me laugh out loud! X
@@aubreyheartburn I feel that started to cry the other day when out shopping realised no one left to wrap or buy presents for all gone only my husband and we don't bother for each other its so sad.
@@lynnedavies5884 awww that's so sad, 😪
@@lynnedavies5884 you can make homemade presents and wrap them for your local church Christmas fair. I'm not religious but I love doing that 😁👍
I remember mum buying the Radio Times and TV times for christmas and looking forward to all the films over Christmas, great video!
We still buy a TV mag at Christmas but it's just for display on the coffee table. Nostalgic & traditional, really.
@@RetroSteveUK That's it! Radio Times for BBC and TV Times for ITV and Channel 4.
Barely anything on now. Christmas Day tv sucks.
Yes I remember I still keep that tradition up today 🎄💜
@@RetroSteveUK same here ! My hubby bought in other day , we don’t even watch tv I cancelled my license and sent virgin box back . 😂😂 daft sod spending a fiver to sit next to a derelict tv 😂😂😂😂😂 I suppose Netflix is in mag ! 😂😂😂
The build up to xmas was so exciting back then.You could feel the atmosphere in the air.
Well I think back in the 1970s / early 1980s, Christmas stuff appeared on shop / supermarket shelves in November (after Bonfire Night, possibly as late as after Remembrance Sunday), not September / October like now.
Very true.
You could. Christmas mattered. Nowadays you can hardly wish someone a merry christmas, the cops will come round and arrest you for offending someones foreign religion, won't they? Anyway, it's all about selling stuff now, isnt it. Practically begin marketing the bloody stuff in august.
Christmas Day felt a bit flat after the presents had been unwrapped and dinner was over. Especially when the sun was out and it was a really mild day, no snow like the Christmas cards promised us! Boxing Day just felt a bit depressing and there was the thought that it would be another year, which felt like 5 years does when you get to 50.
I've always preferred Christmas Eve when the atmosphere you mention was still thick in the air. The journey's better than the destination.
@@TumbleTower Last year I saw some Christmas stuff in a shop mid-August. I was horrified!
Brought back some great memories, I would go back to the 80’s tomorrow. Growing up Christmas adverts were great
I would go back even further, to the 60's, just to be with Grandma & Grandad and my dear old Dad, safe in the knowledge that life then was good and I hadn't a care in the world.
Me too there's so many people I'd like to see again 👍
Me too, best years of my life, 3 of my children growing up in the 80's 🎅🤶
I loved the 80s too. They seem so idyllic because we were kids at that time, without the responsibilities we have now, and to us, our futures were full of possibilities and promise.
If we'd been a bit older and struggling to find a job, or if our dad had been a miner, our memories would be much less rosy.
Don't forget to keep Christmas special for kids because it's just as exciting for them as us when we were back then.
The best and happiest days of my life.. I loved Christmas back then.I remember all these adverts… great memories for me especially of my Nan.. She spoiled us rotten!! Bless her
Me too I loved Christmas now I dread it
@@michelles2299 Michelle I do to… always politics and drama in our family at Christmas.. anyway best wishes to you take care
Well if Putin carries on we might not be here this Christmas!
@@rugbydazz2264 Worry not. These 'people' cannot exist without us ... And they know it.
Stay free, R. Rab 🍻 😎 💚
Nan hated you back then, you were an awful kid.
I wish I could go back in time to pick up a tin of QS and Roses when they actually tasted good!!
Yeah, and directly compare them to how they are now.
And when the tins were massive, not the little tubs they have now!
@@joannedixon-jackson7348 I've still got a 2kg Tin ..which I keep my sewing stuff in..
Now they range from 640 grams to 860 grams.. But they expect us to pay a similar high price !!
They're a disgrace to what they were in the 80s They're all cheap crap now
And all the plastic in today’s tubs.
Look at the size of those Quality Street and Roses tins - enormous! The ones these days look about a third of the size. We used to get a tin of Quality Street every Christmas and there were plenty of sweets for a family of six to last for a couple of weeks.
and many visiting the dentist in january!!
They never ended 🙏
@@michelles2299 Particularly the coconut and the coffee creams - my brother had to eat those because nobody else would eat them. I was an adult before I could try a green triangle as mum banned us from eating any of them!
@@catwoman7462 Lol. I hate coffee and my kids used to wrap the coffee ones up in the different wrappers and watch me run to the bin choking and gagging and swearing my head off
@@catwoman7462 Oh I know! My Grandad always bought his 3 daughters a 2lb box of Milktray and if any of us went in and took a turkish delight it would cause WW3 and my mum was the nuclear bomb.
Wish I could go back to the 70s and early 80s. These bring so many happy memories back to me ❤️
If only
You missing the sexism, racism, high unemployment, strikes, power cuts, food poverty- you go back ill stay right where I am. They were dark times
@@Steampunksaly it depends on what life you had them times for my friends and family brilliant.
@@Steampunksaly I think you're talking about now aren't you.
Hang around for a bit because we'll get to experience them all over again. Yay!!!!!
I loved tv in the 70s. 3 tv stations were better than the 100s we have now.
my daughter has a Sky T.V package 100s channels when i scroll 89% is rubbish
I've got the internet,basically any channel from around the world for free you can find 100 percent
They really weren't though were they. They were shit, there were barely any shows and virtually none of them are remembered fondly or have aged well. It's an absolute insult to shows like The Bear, Succession, Ted Lasso, Derry Girls, The Boys, Veep, The Last of Us, Line of Duty, Twin Peaks: The Return, The Umbrella Academy, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Cobra Kai, Happy Valley, to name but a few, all this incredible television that's been created in what's been a golden age for it in recent times, shows that will go down as all time greats, for you to be comparing them unfavourably to limited hours TV and badly acted soaps. Ditch the nostalgia bias for christ sake, the only good thing to come out of 70s TV was Fawlty Towers.
TV was just as bad then - people whined about it just as much back then too.
Agree
How I'd love to go back to those days, when Christmas still felt magical 💕
When Christmas wasn't cancelled every year!
@@trupype3028 mine still isn't 👍🏻
Thatcher ruined everything
They felt magical because you were a Kid.. much like christmas today will feel magical to kids now.
We have the Victorians to thank for all the Christmas crap, buying a pile of shit you don't need and cant afford, then spending January broke. Should have just left it a church holiday instead of turning it into a month long spending spree.
Brilliant thanks for the memories I loved the adverts when I was a kid through the 70's&80's. Who remembers the excitement of getting the Argos catalogue, we were skint, but I could dream going through the toy section with my pen marking off what I would love
So true we were skint to but I used fantasise about those toys loved those days
I’d go back to Thoses times..when life as we knew it was normal.
Now we live greedy ,wicked,crazy world.
You are so right about greed and wickedness did you know that the Bible speaks of this time we are all living in Timothy second C3v1 says that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here for men women will be lovers of money and that there will be no natural affection when ever I read that it makes me think of the news Eileen
Adverts were much better back in the day. Today's ads for the most part are pretentious and seldom clear as to what they're advertising.
Thanks for uploading.
I've felt the same lately, but I've been trying to work out if it's just my perception. Now I'm more cynical as an adult but wasn't so much as a kid, maybe I was just 'taken in' more easily back then. It's very rare these days for an advert to win me over.
And it's usually too expensive anyway
We used to talk about adverts in school playground.
When the shops used to be shut over Xmas and the shops shut every Sunday
Young people will never know how happy we were no internet, no phones if only I could go back I would never grow up,
I totally agree with you I would love to go back
I was born in the 60s and I feel the same way we were happy then wish we could go back upsetting