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Post by Three Litre on Jun 19, 2020 11:44:31 GMT
Love the coal board ad! I suppose they thought they were only being practical, I mean what woman would have wanted to go down the mines, they were thinking. As you say, times change! Indeed 3L. Just imagine how different that ad would be if it was made in 2020.
Thing is; I've seen quite a few adverts from the 70s - advertising jobs - Coal Board, Electricity Board, Gas Board, British Steel - and they, apart from subject matter, are all the same. Just shows how attitudes have changed - for the better too.
Also - it shows how self sufficient this country once was - with it's own national industries. These days we have to rely on everyone else - and it's all run by corporate conglomerates.
Yes, it was a very sexist world back then and they is probably still a way to go. On your other point, this Covid crisis may lead to a reappraisal on those national issues.
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Post by Sparky on Jun 19, 2020 11:50:14 GMT
Indeed 3L. Just imagine how different that ad would be if it was made in 2020.
Thing is; I've seen quite a few adverts from the 70s - advertising jobs - Coal Board, Electricity Board, Gas Board, British Steel - and they, apart from subject matter, are all the same. Just shows how attitudes have changed - for the better too.
Also - it shows how self sufficient this country once was - with it's own national industries. These days we have to rely on everyone else - and it's all run by corporate conglomerates.
Yes, it was a very sexist world back then and they is probably still a way to go. On your other point, this Covid crisis may lead to a reappraisal on those national issues. I hope so.
Hopefully people will remember those local Butchers, Grocers, Bakers, Hardware shops, Newsagents and Take Aways who kept us going through the crisis. I was talking to the local Butcher on Wednesday when collecting our meat hamper, he said - even though there are now less restrictions on movements - the footfall on the precinct has remained the same as it was during the lockdown; and he's acquired many new customers - who want to continue shopping there. That is a good thing.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 19, 2020 15:10:38 GMT
Looks like Roy Evans in the first picture, quite a familiar extra.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Jun 20, 2020 11:32:28 GMT
To end with......
20) Tufty - (this for Sam & Annie)
21) Not leaving the Guv and Bolly out...
22) This from 1970. How things change.
Awww the dear squirrels. I realise now I don't really know what they're about. I'll have to look them up now. An advert for the Quattro! What a world it was. Mining Advert. See, that just doesn't bother me. Possibly the result of never really doing anything quite conventionally. I think there are women that really need to just get a life when it comes to being "offended" by things. I'm not saying there aren't facets of now dated attitudes that are wrong and needed to be addressed but we are fast becoming a nation where men are actually put on the back foot and that is just as wrong as what we had previously. And no, I wouldn't particularly want to work down a mine, either!
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Post by Three Litre on Jun 20, 2020 12:02:05 GMT
Alex, society always seems to overreact in times of crisis. Those young girls who were trafficked for sex in South Yorkshire a decade or so ago was due to the police not wanting to tackle the gangs responsible for fear of being seen as racist. Clearly there are issues of racism and a bunch of other "isms" to deal with but just do it responsibly please! Anyway . There are road safety squirrels aren't they? Which isn't much more sensible than making hedgehogs bastions of road safety. Should have used sloths, they're too lazy to get into trouble!
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Post by Cartman on Jun 20, 2020 12:02:30 GMT
Women weren't allowed to work underground in the mines at that time, the Mines and Collieries act of 1842 banned them. Maybe the equal opportunities legislation in the 70s or 80s overturned this?
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Post by Sparky on Jun 20, 2020 14:03:43 GMT
Those young girls who were trafficked for sex in South Yorkshire a decade or so ago was due to the police not wanting to tackle the gangs responsible for fear of being seen as racist. Clearly there are issues of racism and a bunch of other "isms" to deal with but just do it responsibly please! Anyway . There are road safety squirrels aren't they? Not just the Police - it was the Council who also turned a blind eye. There have also been some arrests just before christmas in relation to all this - and it transpired a some "higher up" in the council were involved up to their necks (in the abuse). That story is far from as clean as it's been reported in the press. The previous mayor has just been nicked for irregularities with his Expenses, his links with such groups - and his short memory when when come to paying his taxes.... Not seen much in the news about all this (obviously).
Cue for a Sweeney episode "The bigger they are...." and all that.
Yes, Tufty was part of the Government Road Safety Campaign for kids (before Green Cross Code) - a featured on posters and Public Information Films of the time.
Talking of Public Information Films - does anyone remember the one warning you about Polystyrene Ceiling Tiles, and how dangerous it is to paint them (as was common in 70s homes)......
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Post by Three Litre on Jun 20, 2020 14:13:51 GMT
No, don’t remember that. Fire risk I presume?
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Post by Sparky on Jun 20, 2020 14:23:52 GMT
No, don’t remember that. Fire risk I presume? Aparently so. According to the PIF, the tiles on their own were OK, it's when you painted them, whatever was in the paint, made the tiles like a tinder box. So, if they were fitted in a kitchen, a small chip pan fire could ignite the entire ceiling and it would spread pretty damn quick.
Fire Brigade also said that when they entered properties with such tiles, the smoke was quite dangerous, as well as the moulten plastic raining from the ceiling. I've been in loads of houses with them in.
The 70s were full of dangerous appliances and stuff in houses.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 20, 2020 14:26:12 GMT
Here's the polystyrene tiles pif. Network released a dvd called 'Charley Says' which has dozens of pifs on it. The BFI have released some as well, I have 'Stop Look Listen' & 'Worth The Risk?', they come with nice booklets & feature 2 dvds worth of pifs.
Love the Tufty films, beautifully made, I think I may have been in the Tufty Club, too young to remember.
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