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Post by timbo on Feb 12, 2014 20:10:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 20:52:54 GMT
A Brucciani's in Barrow? My word, how chic! I tried to have a coffee in the one in Preston on Saturday but the queue was too long. Real "old style" Italian coffee shops set up by the descendants of Luigi Brucciani who apparently walked from Italy to Scotland in the 1880s. They probably opened a branch in Barrow when it was something of a boom town.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 23:06:06 GMT
Barton Downs And just what were the Border Agency staff up to when Luigi managed to slip past them I wonder ? Enjoying a leisurely taxpayer funded tea break is my guess ! To compound matters just look at the hours those little Chinese are putting in at Sunlight Restaurant. Preparing beansprouts from mid-morning till midnight I shouldn't wonder, even the working day on Sunday is only a half an hour shorter. Barrow was badly in need of a 'British jobs for British workers' campaign, even as long ago as 1967. it would be interesting to see how well the local UKIP candidate did at the time. Thank goodness there were still people like Alan Hardaker around, standing up for British values and ensuring that attempts to play a charity match on a Sunday are firmly crushed.  The Mill Brow Garage is scarcely any better, advertising all those foreign makes of car. Thank goodness British Leyland, a name synonymous with craftsmanship and reliability, was about to see the light of day the following year in 1968. One redeeming feature of Mill Brow Garage however, is it's championing of Regent Petrol & Oils:  ' Marketing in the 1960's entered a new phase and with the success of Esso's "Tiger in your tank" campaign, and strong TV advertising by Shell-Mex & BP Ltd, Regent wanted its own campaign in which to capture the public's imagination.
Regent Petrol's 1960's Wild West Campaign The theme of Regent's campaign was the "Wild West" and company suggestions on how to create a great campaign included; the forecourt placement of a life size cut out of the Regent girl who was called Caroline, bullet hole stickers for car windows and Regent T shirts. Other suggestions included the dressing of attendants in the Caroline kit, stenciling whitewash hoof prints on the forecourt, the playing of country and western music and joint promotions with local cinemas showing cowboy films. Also suggested was the use of water pistols to clean car windscreens and the fitting of holsters around the petrol pumps to hold the pump nozzles in'.
LINK- Regent Petrols & Oils
 
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2014 20:29:40 GMT
Barrow was badly in need of a 'British jobs for British workers' campaign, even as long ago as 1967 Oh, I don't know. At the time there would have been a few thousand people down the road from Holker Street making good old-fashioned British underwater weapons. Superficially a harsh decision by Lytham St Anne's to ban that charity game at Oxford. But if it was a Showbiz XI - Jimmy Tarbuck and his mates - I'd like to think old Alan banned it on the grounds of an extreme danger to public taste and the worrying potential to bring the game into disrepute. |
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