Enticing Us to Buy in Times Past! Sepia Saturday

This week's Sepia Saturday prompt photograph features Billboards.  So take a look here at advertisements from past times, beginning with a family connection:

 My father-in-law John Robert Donaldson came from South Shields, County Durham in north east England  He was a sign-writer and painter and here are two examples of his work in South Shields.

 Nowadays, amidst anti-smoking campaigns, this  advert  would be banned. 

Dating from just after the Second World War, this was painted directly onto the board, because of a shortage of paper.  The story here went that the railway company who owned the wall  eventually tried to paint over the advert, but the original paint kept showing through.  Standing alongside his Dad's work, was John's son Ian, who later followed him into the family business.

In the 1950s, the family moved to Scotland and here is another of John's signs.

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Beamish Open Air Museum, near Newcastle  is one of our favourite family outings. In 300 acres of countryside it recreates and explores the everyday life of people in North East England from around 1880 to 1950, with a  High Street of houses, shops &  trades, vintage trams and buses, a  colliery with a pit village,  farm, manor house and railway station.   Here is the stable yard, with advertising billboards.

 

 

  Not feeling so great?  Why not try these remedies? 

Vick was my mother's standard remedy for coughs and colds - and we still have a jar today in our medicine cabinet! 

So what about some kind of "pick me up".

 

                                                           With an original "Tweet". 

 

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       to share their family history through photographs.

 

 

 

 

 

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