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Post by whitstabletangerin on Jun 8, 2011 15:03:52 GMT 1
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Post by yenilira on Jun 8, 2011 19:46:51 GMT 1
Didn't know you got the Blackpool 'Gazette' down in Kent, Whit. YL.
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Jun 8, 2011 23:13:15 GMT 1
We can even get Lancashire hot pot down here as well.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Jun 9, 2011 5:45:12 GMT 1
bet you don't get a good cup of tea though
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Jun 9, 2011 8:35:21 GMT 1
Little bit of history here for you gals and guys, www.ismailcoffee.com/index.php?act=viewDoc&docId=5Anyone remember the sign on the stand roof and I think they were in Birley St. So in answer to your question Sherlock, yes we can still get a fine cuppa down here.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Jun 9, 2011 8:50:51 GMT 1
oh very clever lol but I bet you will struggle to get a pint of Whitbread Tankard which i think was painted on the old east stand
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Jun 9, 2011 9:42:30 GMT 1
Think you will find it was on the West Stand and proceeded by another brewery , something like O BE JOYFUL, Dutton's brewery.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Jun 9, 2011 10:27:34 GMT 1
dam lol
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Post by yenilira on Jun 9, 2011 11:49:23 GMT 1
How long ago roughly was the Ismail Coffee logo on the stand?
I def. remember seeing that but can't remember the dates.
YL.
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Jun 9, 2011 12:02:07 GMT 1
Yeni, you smelt the Turkish coffee then, well I remember as a lad in the fifties then in early sixties was with the RAF and pretty sure by 65 it had been replaced, I think by a garage sign.
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Post by april13th1970 on Jun 9, 2011 18:44:12 GMT 1
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Post by april13th1970 on Jun 9, 2011 18:46:10 GMT 1
Even in the early days of Bloomfield Road's existence, advertising was in evidence around the ground, with "Winter Gardens", the town's entertainment complex, emblazoned above the southern half of the West Stand.[65]
For around fifty years after Bloomfield Road's 1899 opening, adverts were restricted to hoardings around the ground. Eventually, however, the sloping corrugated-iron roofs of the East and West stands were painted in order to expand the advertising and, in turn, revenue options. Around 1950, the "Oh Be Joyful"[66] slogan of Dutton's Brewery, based in Blackburn, was painted on the roof of the West Stand.[67] This was replaced in the 1970s by Whitbread's "Whitbread Tankard. Cool, refreshing flavour".[68]
Across the ground, on the East Stand, several advertisements graced the roof of the original structure between the 1950s and the point at which it was demolished. In the mid-1950s, the roof featured three black-on-white adverts; the northern quarter was given over to the Evening Gazette and The Green,[69] while the middle two quarters featured an advert for Harold "The Riley Man of the North" Smith's Premier MG Garage on Bolton Street.[70] The southern portion consisted of an advert asking patrons "Have You Tried Ismail's Tea?", in reference to the town's tea and coffee merchants Ismail & Co. Ltd., located on Birley Street. Above that, on a stanchion attached to the rear slope of the roof, was a billboard for Morrell's Steelworks.
The Evening Gazette and The Green adverts remained until the 1980s; however, that of Harold Smith's garage – which, along with the former two, was repainted in the reverse colours of white-on-black – was halved in length and re-branded "Premier Garage South Shore" in the mid-1960s. The Ismail & Co. Ltd advert, meanwhile, was amended.[70] During the 1969–70 season this was joined, to its northern side, by an advert for Vauxhall & Bedford, which led to the Premier Garage advert being halved in size. Around 1976, the Evening Gazette and The Green paint was changed to black-on-green firstly, then black-on-white, while the Premier Garage and Vauxhall & Bedford sections were repainted to feature an advert for Oliver Rix's British Leyland Garages[71] in tangerine lettering on a blue background. Ismail & Co. Ltd.'s advert remained.
In the mid-1990s, the entire East Stand roof was painted tangerine and featured, in black lettering, an advert for Coucher & Shaw, a local solicitors company.[72]
The last of these was the club's shirt sponsors between 1997 and 2001 – Telewest.[73] Not long before this, however, the television-camera gantry, which was originally erected on the West Stand,[74] was moved to the East Stand,[75] somewhat negating the effectiveness of Telewest's advert.
After the western half of the Spion Kop was closed to supporters in the 1980s, billboards were introduced on the empty steps.
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Jun 9, 2011 20:24:05 GMT 1
Crickey guys, this only started over Sherlock's cup of tea.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Jun 9, 2011 21:43:14 GMT 1
Glad i did not ask about a cup or earl grey
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Post by yenilira on Jun 9, 2011 21:45:20 GMT 1
Memories, though, eh? YL. p.s. No, Whit, it was your 'Gazette' that started it!
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