Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5207 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| BRADFORD LAUNDRY, MEAT, AND COAL ADVERTS | 1931-1933 | 1931-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 35mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 1 min 40 secs Subject: Industry |
| Summary The following is a series of early cinema advertisements for local Bradford area shops. The adverts are all animations which publicise the following companies: The Holme Top Laundry, W.I. Rhodes Family Butcher, and Mark Fletcher & Sons Coal Merchants. |
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Description
The following is a series of early cinema advertisements for local Bradford area shops. The adverts are all animations which publicise the following companies: The Holme Top Laundry, W.I. Rhodes Family Butcher, and Mark Fletcher & Sons Coal Merchants.
The Holme Top Laundry: (1931)
A woman is hunched over a table, on top of which is a washing basket. The woman’s friend, dressed in a fur coat, enters the room.
Title – The shadow of a woman’s life!
Title – Send your laundry to –
Title –...
The following is a series of early cinema advertisements for local Bradford area shops. The adverts are all animations which publicise the following companies: The Holme Top Laundry, W.I. Rhodes Family Butcher, and Mark Fletcher & Sons Coal Merchants.
The Holme Top Laundry: (1931)
A woman is hunched over a table, on top of which is a washing basket. The woman’s friend, dressed in a fur coat, enters the room.
Title – The shadow of a woman’s life!
Title – Send your laundry to –
Title – The Holme Top Laundry, Little Horton, Bradford. Family wash (restricted) Economy wash, the Latest – No restrictions. (Note here prices are given for the washes in old money.)
A P.C. brings a van to your door. Phone 4848
W.I. Rhodes Family Butcher: (1931)
A man and woman sit at either end of a dining table. The man is having a very hard time cutting the meat for dinner, and the woman is quite upset.
Title – Tough meat means tough work.
Title – Cut out this weekly exercise.
The couple is now very happy seated at the dinner table.
Title – What a different when meat comes from
Title – W.I. Rhodes Family Butcher, Duckworth Lane, Bradford Tel No. 3917 National Mark Beef
Mark Fletcher & sons Coal Merchants: (1933)
There are two pictures in oval frames – the first being a woman holding a baby and sitting next to a fire place, and the second, and elderly couple also sitting near a fire place.
Title – From the dawn of life to its close – Coal is the most comporting and economical form of heat. You get the best from… Mark Fletcher & Sons Coal Merchants, City Rd Coal Depot, Bradford Telephone 2673. Your Enquires Solicited –
Context
What do advertisements tell us about the lifestyle of their times? Well, here is evidence of the importance of the local laundry and coal merchant, and of the family butcher, in between the world wars. These animated ads from Bradford also tell us something about life at home, with the gender division in roles, and the labour-saving appeal of a communal laundry providing freedom from domestic drudgery.
This film originated with Mr Spink who owned a cinema in Yeadon, West Yorkshire. It...
What do advertisements tell us about the lifestyle of their times? Well, here is evidence of the importance of the local laundry and coal merchant, and of the family butcher, in between the world wars. These animated ads from Bradford also tell us something about life at home, with the gender division in roles, and the labour-saving appeal of a communal laundry providing freedom from domestic drudgery.
This film originated with Mr Spink who owned a cinema in Yeadon, West Yorkshire. It isn’t known who made this film, very possibly Youngers Shoppers Gazette who made similar advertisements in Bradford during this period. Information on historic local shops and services is usually hard to find, but it seems as if the Holme Top Laundry lasted at least 50 years, from 1913 to 1963 (and even had a Victorian age incarnation). Rhodes Family Butcher appears to have disappeared in the mists of time; while, according to the London Gazette, Mark Fletcher & Sons Coal Merchants was dissolved on 7th November 1929 by the two sons, Albert and Abraham Fletcher – and so the date for the advert is problematic. |
