Local Ads

Here are some more stills from the adverts that were shown at Hyde Theatre Royal.

 





Many Thanks, Steve.
Much appreciated as always :)

Old Adverts from the Theatre Royal intermission.

Here are some stills from a 35mm cinema reel of silent adverts that were used at the Theatre Royal Cinema.

I used to love the "Pearl and Dean" adverts section. :-)







Thanks to Stephen Hill for sharing :)

Dean and Noble

Below is a postcard which shows, amongst other shops, Dean and Noble, which stood on Market Street on the corner of the Borough Arcade..
The advert below is from when it stood lower down Market Street next to the alley, Longmeadow Passage.
Dean and Noble had an iconic status in Hyde as a place where you could buy almost any small electrical item or accessory




Here is a still from a 35mm cinema reel of silent adverts that were used at the Theatre Royal Cinema.

Thanks to Werneth Low for the postcard and Stephen Hill for the advert :)

Much appreciated !!

Borough Arcade - Then and Now

Borough Arcade looked to be quite "posh" in 1900 if the drawings are anything to go by !

Borough Arcade 1900 - picture taken from the Eastern Bazaar Handbook.

2013

Mid - 1970's Adverts

MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN HYDE 1953 – 1962 Part 9

By Roger Chadwick

The school week at William Hulme’s G.S. was six whole days, there being lesons on Wednesday and Saturday mornings and compulsory sport until 4.00.p.m. on both afternoons.  Drama and School Cadets added yet more hours to the schoolday and at busy times I would do homework in Manchester Central Library getting home around 9.30.p.m. only to be off again at 7.30.a.m. in the morning.   Half term consisted of a Friday and a Monday tacked onto a weekend but the school holidays were longer.   These factors meant that my time in and around Hyde was becoming increasingly sparse! In those days, Sunday truly was a day of rest with shops closed, bus services curtailed and nowt to do unless you were involved in a church.

Just after my 15^th birthday, with the expenses of adolescence rising, some money had to be raised.   In the summer of 1954, I started labouring at Ashton Brothers Bayleyfield Mill, hauling tubs of cotton bobbins to Italian lasses, (many of whom had already done 8 hrs in the Pan Yan Pickle factory in Glossop) in what was then called the Pirning room and then sorting boxes of cotton in the cavernous damp cellars.  Weekday work began at 7.30.a.m. and finished at 5.30.p.m with 20 minutes for breakfast and 60 minutes for lunch.  Saturdays began at the same time and work finished at 12.30.p.m.  I was not allowed in the weaving shed because that was for skilled workers and overlookers only and I was very glad not to be in that infernal noisy place: nor was I allowed in cotton waste where men worked in cotton overalls and “plimsolls”.  One spark in that department and the whole mill would have gone up like bomb!   My first wage amounted to £6.8.10d (£6.44p) – a phenomenal wage at that time for labouring when teachers and other professions were  getting much less.  It was hard work with long hours but good money and I loved the smell and atmosphere, the views of Werneth Low from five floors up, the coarse cackle and vulgarity of the women in the cop cellar, the hot juice of lunchtime meat pies and endless tea from the steel urns provided.  We have an old cotton bobbin in the kitchen which is converted to an egg timer.  It still stinks of the mills….lovely!

Redferns Rubberworks

Sadly, the days of Lancashire cotton were numbered and I had to find other work in the summers that followed.  I biked to Harden’s Engineering, North’s Atomic Clothing, Redfern’s Rubber Works, Oldham Batteries, Daniel  Adamson’s and a host of other industrial concerns but the message was always the same , “no vacancies for unskilled work…nothing part time….etc.”  1955 saw me cutting malt loaves and sorting hot white loaves and milk buns in the Bread Factory on the road from Denton to Brinnington.  The following year  I was clipping and weeding graves for six weeks in Denton cemetery.  There I was a dab hand with the weedkiller and did untold damage through ignorance rather than malice.  I started learning the art of gravedigging!  But the money was poor compared with Ashton Brothers.

Whenever I see pictures of St Stephen’s Church,  Floweryfield, I am reminded of an intensely sad time.

Coming home from holiday work in July 1956, I was told of the sudden death of a school friend, David Oldham.  He had died of an unsuspected brain tumour.  His father was the Organist of St Stephen’s and the family were closely connected with that church.  It was my first experience of death and along with Pete Broughton and Barry Broadhurst(the son of George Broadhurst the painter and decorator),  we bore David into church for the funeral service.   His parents were much comforted by what we did but I am sure it was a case of “put a brave face on…”.  David was an only one, like most of us in those years.

Some three weeks after this sad event I came home from work and found the family gathered in the back room.  Straightaway I knew there was something up. “Where’s mi father….” I asked… only to be told that he had died on the 125 bus coming home from work.   I had to attend Platt Lane Police Station in  Manchester that night so we were glad of evening buses!   My father had to be identified and my mother couldn’t do it.  “Are you Roger Chadwick, the son of Harry Chadwick?....is this your Father?   Having answered the questions, the paperwork had to be done and I could not say that the police sergeant was sympathetic.  But then, he had to do his job and cards and sympathy and teddy bears were light years away.  This was the first time I had seen a dead body.   But my Vicar was brilliant and gave my atheist father a wonderful funeral!  

“These things happen”….is a truism even if it doesn’t help much.  The fact of the matter was that my mother had to go to work and had to manage to keep us on her wages and the £4 widow’s pension.   It was now even more important that I get work to support the family.  But this was not going to be easy as it was the time of a mini recession and temporary work became even more difficult to find from 1956 onwards! 

I would like to thank Roger once again for sharing his wonderful memories with us !
They are a pleasure to read. :)

More Old Adverts from 1968

Below are a selection of adverts taken from the

1968 edition of the Green Guide,

which was a local Yellow Pages type publication.

The good old Kingston Stink !

Beames Advert

A photo showing Beames when the shop stood on George Street.This was before the motorway cut through Hyde and George Street disappeared.



Thanks to Nick C. for use of the photo. :) 
Much appreciated.

Hyde "Old" Supermarket

Below is an advert for the old supermarket on Clarendon Street showing  the range of goods and services that were available circa 1976.

 

When I was young I used to love going in there with my Mum and Nan on a Saturday afternoon and  buying chocolate biscuits which were all sold loose by the pound . As I got older I liked to peruse Hubbles record shop on the first floor. My Mum used to spend a lot of time on the haberdashery stall at the top of the stairs which always left me free to roam the entire shop floor with my sister. I never went in the Bingo area though - that was out of bounds.
Happy days !!







An aerial photo showing the old supermarket ( just above the middle of the shot)

Thanks to John Hopwood for the photo :)

Some Adverts from Old Hyde

 
A photo showing Brookes and Sons which is mentioned on the page above.
Brookes is the shop with the green sign next to the tram !




The top page supplied by Susan.
Many thanks for sharing !

The Green Guide.

 

A regular sight in many houses in the 1960's.

Advertisements

I've got a booklet entitled 'A Guide to the Parish Church of St George's, Hyde, Cheshire' which is not dated, but appears to date from the early 1970s. The following are advertisements shown in the booklet.

The Red Lion

 We received this charming picture and the following email the other day with the sender, Beatrice, wondering if anyone had any more details about Alice Tomlinson and why she would have had this made for her....

Over to Beatrice...

"Hello,

My GGGGrandmother Alice Tomlinson was the landlady of the Red Lion in 1881 on the census.  The address was 52 Manchester Road which I know is the  Red Lion's address.  She wasn't there in 1871 and she died 1883.  Like to know when she became the landlady if possible.  One of her sons Ralph Tomlinson went to the U.S.A. his relatives have a teacup or it may be a mug with an inscription on which reads Mrs.Tomlinson, Red Lion, Hyde.  I wonder if anyone can tell me about this.

Kind regards,

Beatrice. "

 I do hope someone can shed some light on this for her.

Many Thanks for sharing it with us, Beatrice ! :)


 The Red Lion .

Adverts from the Tameside Guide

A couple of adverts from the Tameside guide circa 1974. 
Nice to see that Kenyons is still in business.





If only it was that easy to get a job today!

Adverts from 1964

Below are some adverts taken from the 1964 Edition of the  

"Hyde and District Street Guide and Directory"
 

I wonder if any of them are still in existence?

1930 Advertisements

Here's a couple of advertisements from The Reporter Pictorial Review in Pictures of 1930.

I can't find out anything about H. Rigby & Sons but Cotton Street, where the Workshop and Warehouse was, ran between Russell Street and Mottram Street, just about where Clark Way passes behind Tameside Caravans.

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Arcoleine Lubricants didn't last for long after this advert was originally printed:

The ARCOLEINE LUBRICANTS Limited.

Extraordinary Resolution (pursuant to the Companies

Act, 1929 sections 117 and 225), passed

the 1st day of November, 1934.

AT an Extraordinary General Meeting of the

Members of the above named Company, duly

convened, and held at the Philanthropic Hall,

Hamnett Street, Hyde, on the 1st day of November,

1934, the following Extraordinary Resolution

was duly passed : —

"That it has been proved to the satisfaction of

this Meeting that the Company cannot, by reason

of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it

is advisable to wind up the same, and accordingly

that the Company be wound up voluntarily."

At a subsequent Meeting of the creditors of

the said Company, duly convened, and held at the

same place on the same day, Mr. William Henry

Kelsall, of 81, Dale Street, Liverpool was

appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such

winding-up and a Committee of Inspection was

appointed.

(066) JOHN R, EASTHAM, Director.

Hyde United Football Program 3rd Feb. 1962

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