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.
I long to go back to these wonderful times and hug my mum and thank her for all the great xmases she gave me. Times that are now just a distant memory. This video brought some of it back for me.
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.
@@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?. 😏😂😂
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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 ! 😂😂😂
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 👌📼😁
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.
@@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 !!
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.
@silvergirl2847 no we don’t, we sit in different rooms like brain dead zombies on social media. Or if we do sit in same room we are on our phones ignoring each other.
Awww loved this trip down memory lane. lol. Woolies, dixons, Brut 33, and my Dad's favourite Old Spice. And those prices!! WOW! Adverts were so good back in the day.
@@susanbrown2909 I worked on record and video section , was fab ! Only down side was mr blobby was number one 😂😂😂 we were only allowed to play top 40 . I remember, give it away now by red hot chilli peppers was in charts so I put it on . The poor manager nearly died lol he said we can’t have this on it’s a family store 😂😂😂😂 I loved it there 😂❤️
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
I was born in 1957 and was brought up in the 60's and remember all these wonderful adverts wow good old days totally agree we were very happy without the internet and mobile phones all TV channels we had was three channels on the good old days with huge Tins of quality street instead of the plastic ones we get today 😊
So do I at this present moment. I seem to remember reading these comments three years ago, even that’s history now.Do you think we will all hark back to these times 20 years hence?
Just shows you the POWER of the vintage advertisements, that we still remember them word for word, 30+ years later. Nowadays, adverts are INSTANTLY FORGETTABLE! 😫😫😫
When yo think about it like that its scary. You couldn't learn a short poem off by heart in school in an entire year, yet after the Christmas holidays you'd know 10 adds of by heart.
Born in 91. I remember Tv just like this. Christmas was so exciting…and not just because I was young, I think life has become over complicated, overwhelming and less friendly. Social media perhaps…I could go on… thank you for this 📺
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.....
I bought my first Christmas tree in Woolworths. It was silver with red tinsel. Also the Hallmark Top of the Pops LP's. And their Pick 'n' Mix was second to none. I wish time travel was possible.
Indeed freezing 🥶 cold schools, strikes,the IRA on mainland Britain,the miners strike,the Yorkshire ripper,and zero rights for women.oh yeah let's go back
What a trip down memory lane!!! Thank you so much!!!! The days before the internet were brilliant. People were a lot happier. Yes, we had our problems, but we went out, shopping together, we talked, we ate together. The word family meant togetherness. Now? Family means isolation, obsessed with technology. No one actually talks anymore. No wonder mankind is in such a downward spiral.😢
All this nostalgia is giving me the feels. It took me right back to a time when everything was so much simpler and Christmas meant real family time. I’d go back in a heartbeat.
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
When I was young, getting presents and eating a roast dinner and watching TV programmes were all things I took for granted. Now I am middle aged, all these things are luxuries as far as I am concerned, I cherish them and don’t take them for granted. Sitting down to a meal with your family, if you are lucky enough to have one, is a gift - anything else that goes with it is a luxury. I cherish all that nowadays. Always loved Christmas, and Easter as well. 😊 But I wish so much that I could go back to the innocent days of the early 1980s, I was 12 in 1981, I wish I could go back to that time again.
@@RetroSteveUK yes lol I’m always on you tube ! We were playing guess the old theme tunes at work yesterday 😂😂 call my bluff had us for a while 😂😂 you should do something like that 👍🤣
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.
Well this took me back...I was a small child in the 80s and I recognised most of the companies and the products being sold. They don't make adverts like these nowadays!
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 🙏
I love these old adverts as I did when they were 1st aired. What I hated as a kid was on boxing days was the sale adverts and the holiday adverts cos it meant Christmas was over
The old TV frame is inspired. I might make one for my lap top for Christmas. We had a Hitachi with four buttons that the dog, when she wagged a tail, would whack them and inadvertantly change channel LOL
Wow .. remends me of when I was about 7, I was curious and managed to push in all 8 buttons at once using a 30cm ruler. Broke the telly. Had to call out a repair man. I was not in my parents' good books!
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.
Love these old ads. Probably a bout of nostalgia creeping in but tv stations don’t seem to make any effort regarding Christmas over the past 10 -15 years. Getting the Radio and TV Times was a big thing in my house and we’d scour through it, circling all the films and shows we were going to watch and tape. Modern tv now consists of a BBC version of A Christmas Carol featuring swearing and nudity. I have no idea why it’s gone this way but these little clips, lovingly put together, are what Christmas is meant to be about.
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’m 43. I’ve always loved Christmas and telly. This is the first Christmas without my Mum. This compilation got me all Christmassy and nostalgic. And it made me cry. I remember many of these. I’d go back to the 1980s in a heartbeat. Even the 1990s. Thank you for this.
Christmas Adverts were brilliant back in the 80s they ran for months, only thing was , on Christmas morning they gave way for Adverts for Summer Holidays and I remember it made people mad. . . . .
There’s something really sinister about modern advertising, and that’s before the sense of alienation that they cause to the indigenous people of the country.
@@hughoxford8735 I don't watch my telly now due to the adverts, I get really angry tbh. Last time I watched TV was Easter Sunday 2021 for the church hymns (even though I'm not religious). I cannot bear the adverts anymore because there's hardly any of my own countrymen in them
I’ve got LOADS of the sweet tins. Use them to store Christmas decorations in 😂 and my Moulinex electric knife is still going strong after all these years. They really don’t make thinks like they used to.
@@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
No they are not , it’s your youth that’s gone , the best days of your life. Our country has moved on and young people have it so good. I would inflict our 1970s on them.
Seeing the Yardley ad made me tear up a little. My late mum loved Yardley and was our go to gift every Christmas. Thank you for sharing these memories and wow those tins of sweets were huge!
I remember alot of these adverts. That's pretty sad. It's good to take a stroll down memory lane. From a Brit that's living in the US. Merry Christmas to everyone. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
This was compilation was made with love and care. As someone from America who loves retro 'anything' from just about anywhere, the Whiskas Cat commercial feels so warm and cozy - absolutely precious, too. I love how simple and magical commercials used to be and this one made me think of my late kitty Pip, and I teared up a little. This was her favorite time of year. Greetings and warm wishes this holiday season. 🎄❤🌟
Hi I worked in the Woolworths store in Luton where most of their videos were made late 70's & early 80's I met & spoke to many of those entertainers, Tim Brooke Taylor dressed as Elvis spoke to me & biggest shock was a massive Uncle Bulgaria from the wombles giving me high five as we went opposite direction on the escalator. Great day amazing store, I also bought my first record deck from there, sad woolies is no more. Thanks for returning those memories.
The days when Christmas built up from about two weeks before the 25 December instead of the beginning of September like it is now. Lots of good memories here.
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
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 remember how 'tall' the Quality Street tins where back then (before the food agency advised chocolate makers to 'shrink' the tin sizes....but increase the prices!). Christmas back in the day seemed simpler with more gratitude, unlike the spoilt ones we see today.
Old people have been saying that since the dawn of history. The older generation said it about us kids back in the 70s and 80s. Their parents said it about them. And so on and so on. Some people just get bitter as they get older.
@@zeddeka Your comment (in two parts) are both true and incorrect. 1- food production size shrinkage and price with regards to the food agency - True. 2- 'Old Age Generation & Bitterness' Different generations will always look back on a previous one with comparisons - True. Bitterness?....False. 'Gratitude vs Spoilt' This is reflected in the todays generations dependency on instant access and gratification and lack of value and the ability and skills of 'face-on' interaction skills due to both technology and bad parenting to correct this through their growth. So, your last comment was....False.
Born in 1973 and remember happy times,watching entertaining adverts between entertaining programmes. I looked forward to getting the TV and radio times and getting exited about what was going to be on. Now I don't even think I've even watched Mstv for over a decade. Its too brainwashing and brain dead these days. TV used to be an escape But its too pc now Even Christmas is becoming offensive. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, great video
I'm thinking maybe with more channels and viewing options now and more competition for viewers, creativity may have taken a back seat to corporate targets and guidelines.
This year my family have agreed to watching retro Christmas shows over the weekend . We’ve picked out Dick Emery, Morecambe & wise etc seasonal specials and these adverts will be the perfect addition lol . Thank you so much for posting them .
@@lindabiggs3905 that’s because the Americans have bought most of our confectionery businesses. Have you have ever tasted the American stuff ? Shockingly similar, and it’s been done a little at a time so we don’t notice the change 😞
You used get value for money then but now they're a bunch of cheapskate's making stuff smaller, that tin shown was seven pound in weight. I still got one had it since the seventies used to use it to hold our artificial xmas tree covered it with decorative paper. Ah those were the days memories
I smiled all through this... Brought back some lovely memories... Nowadays I don't even know what the adverts are about.. So noisy I turn the sound off.
Seeing these again bring back so many wonderful memories. Christmas was so much more special back then. TV channels used to make much more effort,we still got great new Christmas songs and we lived at a time when we didnt have treats and gifts all through the year,so you appreciated everything so much more at Christmas. I remember the buzz of recording the movies and Christmas specials that were on over the festive period onto video. Simpler but better times. I miss those days.
Choosing what you were going to watch and record on VHS was definitely part of the appeal. These days in our household we either set stuff to record on the TV box, or just watch on demand. It isn't quite the same, but we do get more quality time together, ironically.
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.
@@RetroSteveUK no, adverts were 'less sophisticated' back then which meant they simply named the product and showed what it was, and said how good it was. Today's ads are about selling a lifestyle rather than just a product. They try to imply that if you use the product, your entire world will be transformed.
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 👍
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 long to go back to these wonderful times and hug my mum and thank her for all the great xmases she gave me. Times that are now just a distant memory. This video brought some of it back for me.
That's lovely! 🤗
Mum once said to me you will miss the eighties
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!
Tins of sweets that lasted you a week now they last a day bring the good ole days back
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?. 😏😂😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ! 😂😂😂
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 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
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.
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.
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
Life was better back then its complete crap now
Great days back then, wish we 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.
When all the family used to sit in one room together watching tv laughing
We still do.that 😊
@silvergirl2847 no we don’t, we sit in different rooms like brain dead zombies on social media. Or if we do sit in same room we are on our phones ignoring each other.
Because there was no central heating or double glazing
@@paradisebreeze1705 said the man commenting on youtube. If you hate it that much, get off youtube.
@@paradisebreeze1705😅 lol.that comment has made my day on this lonely late Saturday on 17th November 2023.
I am 51 now who remembers the toffee with the hammer to break it and the tray of nut you had to crack open .Great childhood and fond memories
Yeah, I remember toffee hammers. 😁
Bluebird toffee!
I still have a hammer!! 🤗
You can still buy them in the UK!
Got myself some on Amazon today. Used to share it with my late Dad happy memories
So many memories. Xmas started in December, not October, and was all the more special.
Those days were far better than they are nowadays. Wish I could go back to them. Lots of happy times then
Made me realise how much I miss Woolworths
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!!!!!
Gosh took me right back to a wonderful time where everyone was grateful for not very much and the world seemed so much safer
Awww loved this trip down memory lane. lol. Woolies, dixons, Brut 33, and my Dad's favourite Old Spice. And those prices!! WOW! Adverts were so good back in the day.
Woolworths was Christmas , I had a Saturday job in woolies great times
Totally. Felt like we were losing part of our childhood when Woolies went under.
I worked in Woolies years ago ..had some great times in that store.
@@susanbrown2909 I worked on record and video section , was fab ! Only down side was mr blobby was number one 😂😂😂 we were only allowed to play top 40 . I remember, give it away now by red hot chilli peppers was in charts so I put it on . The poor manager nearly died lol he said we can’t have this on it’s a family store 😂😂😂😂 I loved it there 😂❤️
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
Maybe we can back right now then anybody want to join me then
its gonna get better
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
I was born in 1957 and was brought up in the 60's and remember all these wonderful adverts wow good old days totally agree we were very happy without the internet and mobile phones all TV channels we had was three channels on the good old days with huge Tins of quality street instead of the plastic ones we get today 😊
Me to as well
So do I at this present moment. I seem to remember reading these comments three years ago, even that’s history now.Do you think we will all hark back to these times 20 years hence?
Just shows you the POWER of the vintage advertisements, that we still remember them word for word, 30+ years later. Nowadays, adverts are INSTANTLY FORGETTABLE! 😫😫😫
When yo think about it like that its scary. You couldn't learn a short poem off by heart in school in an entire year, yet after the Christmas holidays you'd know 10 adds of by heart.
true I record everthing to skip them
@gaggymott9159. Especially Boots and that awful AI slop from Coca Cola. Dreadful. 🥱
Amen! My partner and I have just been sitting here saying all the words and singing the jingles.
Born in 91. I remember Tv just like this. Christmas was so exciting…and not just because I was young, I think life has become over complicated, overwhelming and less friendly. Social media perhaps…I could go on… thank you for this 📺
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
I miss Woolworths and it’s Christmas adverts.
They were usually epic. They used to take up an entire ad break! We always used to look forward to them.
So do l...I miss Thoses times..they were heaven ..now we live in hell.
I bought my first Christmas tree in Woolworths. It was silver with red tinsel. Also the Hallmark Top of the Pops LP's. And their Pick 'n' Mix was second to none. I wish time travel was possible.
@@RetroSteveUK oh yes Steve me to luv.
@@RetroSteveUK the wonder of Woolwortns
Oh to go back to those days 😔❤️
Indeed freezing 🥶 cold schools, strikes,the IRA on mainland Britain,the miners strike,the Yorkshire ripper,and zero rights for women.oh yeah let's go back
Time to leave never never land
What a trip down memory lane!!! Thank you so much!!!! The days before the internet were brilliant. People were a lot happier. Yes, we had our problems, but we went out, shopping together, we talked, we ate together. The word family meant togetherness. Now? Family means isolation, obsessed with technology. No one actually talks anymore. No wonder mankind is in such a downward spiral.😢
My dad once said to me the Internet will destroy the community he was so so right in life
Nowadays any break in conversation leads to everyone just looking at a phone. Zombie times!
true, but it’s good for escaping the present and looking at 2980s Xmas adverts
All this nostalgia is giving me the feels. It took me right back to a time when everything was so much simpler and Christmas meant real family time. I’d go back in a heartbeat.
Me to as well
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
What great happy times and when adverts were trying to sell us stuff not trying to tell us how to live our lives.
Brilliant
Big time.
Yess👏👏👏
You for real mate? your memory is clearly going. Advertising hasn't changed.
Exactly this!
When I was young, getting presents and eating a roast dinner and watching TV programmes were all things I took for granted. Now I am middle aged, all these things are luxuries as far as I am concerned, I cherish them and don’t take them for granted. Sitting down to a meal with your family, if you are lucky enough to have one, is a gift - anything else that goes with it is a luxury. I cherish all that nowadays. Always loved Christmas, and Easter as well. 😊 But I wish so much that I could go back to the innocent days of the early 1980s, I was 12 in 1981, I wish I could go back to that time again.
I was the same age back then
the best thing about those days was you actually had go and get the presents from the high street. i do miss it sometimes.
Only 4 tv channels with better quality content than todays 1000 channels.
Nah.
I’m not even from the UK and these commercials give me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
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If I had a time machine I’d be back in that day in 80’s ,Christmas was Christmas not like it is now !
Well, it's because you're older now. The children still love it.
When you watched adverts , I don’t even watch tv anymore 😂
Just old TV via UA-cam, right? I can lose hours just browsing old TV commercials.
@@RetroSteveUK yes lol I’m always on you tube ! We were playing guess the old theme tunes at work yesterday 😂😂 call my bluff had us for a while 😂😂 you should do something like that 👍🤣
This makes me cry. I find it highly emotive.
They’ll never be a Christmas like an 80’s Christmas. Nothing could ever beat opening up a Star Wars/he man figure on the big day.
Oh yes indeed! 🤗
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.
Better times back then no Internet more communication back then as well people actually spoke to each other back then
Well this took me back...I was a small child in the 80s and I recognised most of the companies and the products being sold. They don't make adverts like these nowadays!
No its all awareness adverts now insurance funerals, ect
Ahhh Linda Bellingham, the OXO/Bisto Mum and such a lovely lady. ❤️❤️
She was taken yo early in my view
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! 🤗
I love these old adverts as I did when they were 1st aired. What I hated as a kid was on boxing days was the sale adverts and the holiday adverts cos it meant Christmas was over
I remember feeling the same on boxing day, too. Still get a bit of it now as an adult.
The old TV frame is inspired. I might make one for my lap top for Christmas. We had a Hitachi with four buttons that the dog, when she wagged a tail, would whack them and inadvertantly change channel LOL
Wow .. remends me of when I was about 7, I was curious and managed to push in all 8 buttons at once using a 30cm ruler. Broke the telly. Had to call out a repair man. I was not in my parents' good books!
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
Hands down……R whites Lemonade is one of the most iconic adverts from UK 🇬🇧 Love it…..'
Smash powder potato 🥔 was Brilliant
Roses grow on you….😂😂
80s Xmas , watching wrestling on ITV , Darts at the Lakeside , Tinsel , Radio Times and lots of great classic films to watch .
Not much makes me smile these days but this did!😁
I miss Woolworths at Christmas 😢 They always had amazing stuff at Christmas.
Woolies always had a really close association with Christmas. I did a video about that last year: ua-cam.com/video/UBP4o_JIlVo/v-deo.html
Ah. Yardley, Linda Bellingham, Woolies...such lovely memories.
Love these old ads. Probably a bout of nostalgia creeping in but tv stations don’t seem to make any effort regarding Christmas over the past 10 -15 years. Getting the Radio and TV Times was a big thing in my house and we’d scour through it, circling all the films and shows we were going to watch and tape. Modern tv now consists of a BBC version of A Christmas Carol featuring swearing and nudity. I have no idea why it’s gone this way but these little clips, lovingly put together, are what Christmas is meant to be about.
I couldn't have put it better myself! 🤗
@@RetroSteveUK you’re very welcome. Keep up the good work! New subscriber here. 👍
Even tv presenters were smarter back then as well a nice smart suit as well
When the shops used to be shut over Xmas and the shops shut every Sunday
Better times back then now it's all about money and greed
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’m 43. I’ve always loved Christmas and telly. This is the first Christmas without my Mum. This compilation got me all Christmassy and nostalgic. And it made me cry. I remember many of these. I’d go back to the 1980s in a heartbeat. Even the 1990s. Thank you for this.
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Christmas Adverts were brilliant back in the 80s they ran for months, only thing was , on Christmas morning they gave way for Adverts for Summer Holidays and I remember it made people mad. . . . .
I hated that even as a kid, holiday adverts at Christmas please wait till January
Thanks for the great nostalgia watching these in the frankly horrific early 2020s
There’s something really sinister about modern advertising, and that’s before the sense of alienation that they cause to the indigenous people of the country.
@@hughoxford8735 I don't watch my telly now due to the adverts, I get really angry tbh. Last time I watched TV was Easter Sunday 2021 for the church hymns (even though I'm not religious). I cannot bear the adverts anymore because there's hardly any of my own countrymen in them
@@vmm5163sadly our old country has disappeared for ever.
So many fabulous memories - the 80's were so wonderful, I'd go back now if I could - Christmas was so magical
You're describing being a child. If you were an adult, the 80s were far from wonderful.
@@zeddeka My parents tell me they liked them - but we live in South Devon - probably a lot more sheltered and easier than inner cities
Once it got to the Magic Moments advert, I burst into tears! Such a stroll down memory lane! Thank you RetroSteveUK
That's nice to hear. 🤗
Thanks for watching.
Remember the night, you fell in the shite with your very best suit on.
The one that you got, through saving a lot of embassy coupons...
Magic moments
I love the old school.posh accents
This was when Xmas was not 3 months early and the tins of chocs of full to the brim it felt like magic every Xmas back then
I’ve got LOADS of the sweet tins. Use them to store Christmas decorations in 😂 and my Moulinex electric knife is still going strong after all these years. They really don’t make thinks like they used to.
I used to think myself quite sophisticated sipping on my Babycham with a cocktail cherry in it, back in the day! 😂😂😂😂
Remember cherry b?
@@lindabiggs3905 Yes! 😂😂😂
Babycham in those fancy glasses and snowballs were my favourites 😋
This is brilliant. I love the retro tv frame too. Thanks for sharing and bringing back memories of Christmas pasts .
You're welcome, and Merry Christmas! :)
Reminds me of the tv we had - a rental
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Those were the day’s, Woolworths was a great store. We didn’t have much in the 70s but we were happy and Christmas was such a happy family time. 😢
I miss my Mum and Dad!
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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
The best days are gone.
Here's hoping we can make new ones.
Surely "My"?
No they are not , it’s your youth that’s gone , the best days of your life. Our country has moved on and young people have it so good. I would inflict our 1970s on them.
@@Steampunksaly C'mon, this is UA-cam comments, everything was better in the good ol days before the WOKE elites blah blah blah
@@Steampunksaly for some reason you're a very bitter person
Seeing the Yardley ad made me tear up a little. My late mum loved Yardley and was our go to gift every Christmas. Thank you for sharing these memories and wow those tins of sweets were huge!
Thank you .. lovely story. 🤗
I remember alot of these adverts. That's pretty sad. It's good to take a stroll down memory lane.
From a Brit that's living in the US.
Merry Christmas to everyone. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Merry Christmas
Come back to the uk.
@@gemini802Why would she ever do that?
This was compilation was made with love and care. As someone from America who loves retro 'anything' from just about anywhere, the Whiskas Cat commercial feels so warm and cozy - absolutely precious, too. I love how simple and magical commercials used to be and this one made me think of my late kitty Pip, and I teared up a little. This was her favorite time of year. Greetings and warm wishes this holiday season. 🎄❤🌟
That's lovely, thanks. Good to from you over there. Have a lovely Christmas! 😸🎄
Hi I worked in the Woolworths store in Luton where most of their videos were made late 70's & early 80's I met & spoke to many of those entertainers, Tim Brooke Taylor dressed as Elvis spoke to me & biggest shock was a massive Uncle Bulgaria from the wombles giving me high five as we went opposite direction on the escalator. Great day amazing store, I also bought my first record deck from there, sad woolies is no more. Thanks for returning those memories.
Wow. What an amazing story and memories to have. I used to visit Luton regularly with my family as a boy, for occasional shopping trips.
The days when Christmas built up from about two weeks before the 25 December instead of the beginning of September like it is now. Lots of good memories here.
I work as a postie. We just saw the first of the Christmas promos / catalogues coming through last week. Late August! 😔
Yes the TINS of toffee were that big,and WERE used has cake tins, sewing kits,and first aid kits afterwards. Great stuff.
Yeah - recycling, 80s style! I know my mum used the same Roses tin for years, I just can't quite remember what for.
The good old days were the best 😁
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.
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!" 🤣
Bring woolworths back. Brilliant adverts and we got more chocolate in tins. Merry Christmas everyone x
Oh boy just brilliant, with adverts like these we wouldn’t want to keep fast forwarding.
Watching these brings a year to my eye remind me of such wonderful times when Christmas's were so much more exciting.
I remember how 'tall' the Quality Street tins where back then (before the food agency advised chocolate makers to 'shrink' the tin sizes....but increase the prices!). Christmas back in the day seemed simpler with more gratitude, unlike the spoilt ones we see today.
Old people have been saying that since the dawn of history. The older generation said it about us kids back in the 70s and 80s. Their parents said it about them. And so on and so on. Some people just get bitter as they get older.
@@zeddeka Your comment (in two parts) are both true and incorrect.
1- food production size shrinkage and price with regards to the food agency - True.
2- 'Old Age Generation & Bitterness'
Different generations will always look back on a previous one with comparisons - True. Bitterness?....False.
'Gratitude vs Spoilt' This is reflected in the todays generations dependency on instant access and gratification and lack of value and the ability and skills of 'face-on' interaction skills due to both technology and bad parenting to correct this through their growth. So, your last comment was....False.
Chocolates tasted better as well
Born in 1973 and remember happy times,watching entertaining adverts between entertaining programmes.
I looked forward to getting the TV and radio times and getting exited about what was going to be on.
Now I don't even think I've even watched Mstv for over a decade.
Its too brainwashing and brain dead these days.
TV used to be an escape
But its too pc now Even Christmas is becoming offensive.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, great video
I'm thinking maybe with more channels and viewing options now and more competition for viewers, creativity may have taken a back seat to corporate targets and guidelines.
The good old vintage Christmases are long gone now
This year my family have agreed to watching retro Christmas shows over the weekend . We’ve picked out Dick Emery, Morecambe & wise etc seasonal specials and these adverts will be the perfect addition lol . Thank you so much for posting them .
You're very welcome. That sounds like a great way to spend your Christmas TV time.
Aw that little girl in the kellogs advert was so sweet reminded me of when my daughter was that young
I sat through all that with a grin and a smile, brought back some wonderful family xmas memories. thank you
Yeah, pretty much the same here when we sat and watched the finished video in our house. Glad it brought you some joy. 🙂
Also, the excitement of writing your Christmas list by circling what you wanted out of the Argos catalogue for Santa to bring you 🙈☺️happy memories 🎄
Note the size of the Quality Street tin, wow
Hadn't had milk tray in years, had a box recently, no way they the same as years ago, so sweet,,
@@lindabiggs3905 that’s because the Americans have bought most of our confectionery businesses. Have you have ever tasted the American stuff ? Shockingly similar, and it’s been done a little at a time so we don’t notice the change 😞
@@DerekDogsforSentience yes I was born in Birmingham so sad we lost Cadbury
You used get value for money then but now they're a bunch of cheapskate's making stuff smaller, that tin shown was seven pound in weight. I still got one had it since the seventies used to use it to hold our artificial xmas tree covered it with decorative paper. Ah those were the days memories
They cost around £8 then
I used to love Christmas tv ads! You've just made an old man very happy! Thank you!
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Such a wholesome, kinder better time...for many obvious reasons.
Woolworths was always had the best Christmas Adds
I smiled all through this... Brought back some lovely memories... Nowadays I don't even know what the adverts are about.. So noisy I turn the sound off.
We can't ever go back.
Why is it so depressing?
Nostalgia used to be fun.
I am old now.
Good compilation.
Thanks.
made me emotional that,,carnt go back....the years that have flown by and the people we have lost
@pearlharbour3300 Yeah life can be quite cruel and unforgiving. It's hard to look forwards sometimes.
Seeing these again bring back so many wonderful memories. Christmas was so much more special back then. TV channels used to make much more effort,we still got great new Christmas songs and we lived at a time when we didnt have treats and gifts all through the year,so you appreciated everything so much more at Christmas. I remember the buzz of recording the movies and Christmas specials that were on over the festive period onto video. Simpler but better times. I miss those days.
Choosing what you were going to watch and record on VHS was definitely part of the appeal. These days in our household we either set stuff to record on the TV box, or just watch on demand. It isn't quite the same, but we do get more quality time together, ironically.
@@RetroSteveUK I think that's the main thing about those old Christmases,the quality time spent with family and its still the most important thing.
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.
@@RetroSteveUK no, adverts were 'less sophisticated' back then which meant they simply named the product and showed what it was, and said how good it was. Today's ads are about selling a lifestyle rather than just a product. They try to imply that if you use the product, your entire world will be transformed.
The adverts made common sense back then now they are crap now