Trip Down Memory Lane with this Yellow Pages Ad - Anyone remember it?

[Basil.B]

I remember that advert well.
Often use that expression, saddle like a razor blade.

 

[Over The Hill]

Boy rides up a one way street the wrong way at the end!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Boy rides up a one way street the wrong way at the end!

Ah, although there's a single broken line right across the street, it's not a one way street and never has been.

EDIT: Google map view

 

[Alembicbassman]

On the subject of Hornby (another British company gone to the dogs) Here's Bernie Cribbins

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Ok, memory lanesters, here's one from the same neck of the woods as the Yellow Pages one, with a defunct British frame builder, that smooth-talking old crook Ernie Witcomb, people cycling the wrong way up a one way street and a final shot at the top of Hyde Vale, on the edge of Blackheath. It's not an advert, though, it was made by someone like the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

View: http://youtu.be/xdtQ6smF0Rw

 

[numbnuts]

never wore helmets in them days

 

[02GF74]

.... nor did they cycle and yabber on mobile phones.

 

[Alembicbassman]

I liked it when he said "we did try a larger one, but it lacked intimacy" - Fnar Fnar

No Whitcombs on ebay - must have been crap rustbuckets

 

[mark st1]

Actually that was before 1983, more like 79/80

That cant be right Carl as i remember that advert and im pretty sure i didn't watch much tv as a 1 year old boy. Unless it was re-run in late 80's ?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

never wore helmets in them days

Don't now!

 

[Over The Hill]

Ah, although there's a single broken line right across the street, it's not a one way street and never has been.

EDIT: Google map view

Good bit of research there! I stand corrected. Odd road marking though.

If it is in London, why are they speaking all northern? Funny, that they wanted a northern scene but found somehwere in the south with a hill and terraced houses to film it.

Actually thinking about it the Hovis hill is down south too.

 

[ColinJ]

Actually thinking about it the Hovis hill is down south too.

It is - Gold Hill, in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

Oh, the ad was directed by Ridley Scott!

 

[subaqua]

thge dad is Kevin websters Dad in Corrie . theres gotta be some quip to be made somewhere.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Oh, the ad was directed by Ridley Scott!

That reminds me, have I ever mentioned the time I did some work for Tony Scott...blah blah...[/shameless name dropping]