Them old Xmas adverts in the Mail.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37445

Found one out, in an old Mail, they'd do a feature each night leading up to Xmas with something like, DO ALL YOUR XMAS SHOPPING AT THE BRUS SHOPS. What you'd have bought for family and friends at the Brus shops I haven't got a clue.

born toulouse · **Posted:** Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:21 pm

Looking pretty festive here Snowy. Just at the Green Grocers you get a turnip for the kids to share, a carrot for each of your friends and some lovely sprouts for the whole family to enjoy on the big day.

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yloop · **Posted:** Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:45 pm

There was a hardware shop that sold bikes as well.

Struggling for anything else, maybe a nice hairstyle at Ruby Joe's and some aftershave from RT Platt's chemist?

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:56 pm

Black eye?

Hartleblue · **Posted:** Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:48 pm

yloop · **Posted:** Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:54 pm

Nowhere near as rough as people made out.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:55 pm

yloop wrote:

Nowhere near as rough as people made out.

Yes it was not bad at all I just had a bad experience in the brus pub. Housing was of exceptional quality. I went to dyke house and had great friends.....holding up ok too?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37445

yloop wrote:

Nowhere near as rough as people made out.

There's worse places in the town. Mind I would say that as I was born unexpectedly early at my grans house in Winterbottom Avenue.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37445

born toulouse wrote:

Looking pretty festive here Snowy. Just at the Green Grocers you get a turnip for the kids to share, a carrot for each of your friends and some lovely sprouts for the whole family to enjoy on the big day.

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Funnily enough, I thought about that later and apart from some foo foo powder at the chemists, they were all getting an apple, orange and a puncture repair outfit each from the hardware shop.
Just a thought, but how long can you keep patty and chips with scraps warm for if you bought them on Xmas Eve, Xmas dinner solved! clappp

ed-t-ball · **Posted:** Wed Nov 15, 2017 1:21 pm

You could do all of your xmas shopping at Charlies, Duke St and do it on Christmas Day because it opens.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

I remember a cracking advertising board at the Cricket Club for Charlie’s that said it was ‘only five minutes walk’ Usain Bolt couldn’t run it in five minutes, you would struggle to drive the distance in five minutes.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Used to love Spaldings next to Charlies. Proper chips in beef dripping served in newspaper. Portions were huge too.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:47 pm

PJPoolie wrote:

I remember a cracking advertising board at the Cricket Club for Charlie’s that said it was ‘only five minutes walk’ Usain Bolt couldn’t run it in five minutes, you would struggle to drive the distance in five minutes.

The best advertising board i saw was for a vacuum cleaner on the road to the Headland opposite central.....it said.....

"Nothing sucks like an Electrolux"

5 Minutes later i was in Comet!

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

Christmas in Yakkerland was going on the TMS with me mam to Binns in Hartlepool or Stockton market.

There was nothing worth having that couldn't be bought at one or the other.

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:27 pm

PJPoolie wrote:

I remember a cracking advertising board at the Cricket Club for Charlie’s that said it was ‘only five minutes walk’ Usain Bolt couldn’t run it in five minutes, you would struggle to drive the distance in five minutes.

It’s only about 1km, which is well doable running (not walking like).

Them old Xmas adverts in the Mail.

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