Near Your Local Cinema

Grumpy Grandma is put in her place during wartime food demonstration

Step inside a local Edwardian store.

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that bling… early silent cinema advert for a local business in Frome.

This amazing discovery shows how cinema advertising used to look in Bygone Britain - a truly nostalgic gem of a film for lovers of Britain's past

Adverts: romancing the world – and Ammanford - with golden rings and Scandanavian meat, leather soles and coal, Eve's soap and flowers.

The message for cinema-goers in Port Talbot, Neath and Briton Ferry is that they should shop local!

From drapery and gas fires to pork butchers and hairdressers: vintage cinema adverts from Erdington's pre-war picture palace.

Adverts not to get punters to buy anything, but just to enjoy sports and preserve memories of seaside holidays, in “real” photographs.

Advertisements for tripe, cow heels, trotters and milk – those were the days! It was a time of food rationing, but going to the cinema wasn’t.

No attempt to sell an idyllic lifestyle here in these two cinema ads for local shops, just a simple warning on the irreplaceability of eyesight.

Never mind that the country is at war with a powerful and vicious foe, that’s no reason to stop going to greyhound racing, with a bet on the side.

With ration books at the ready, shoppers had to stretch the pennies in wartime Derbyshire.

Who could deny these advertising claims: "Attractive hair is the ambition of every woman", and "Your family will enjoy Lincoln potatoes"?

Hangry animals demand better grub in this bizarre advert by E.T. Green

1950s Technicolor Pearl & Dean produced cinema advert for Eastern Electricity, aimed at the modern housewife and husband.

This family favourite is guaranteed to have you singing all the way to the bread bin

Iechyd da – Your good health! A drop too much of this ale and you'll likely be spouting poetry since it is brewed in the Land of the Bards.

A charming regional commercial for Plymouth’s best loved department store.

Help keep your relationship on track by outsourcing your laundry!

There are few things more appealing than the cosiness of relaxing on soft furnishings and woollen rugs, and warmed by a blazing coal fire.

Thrill to the speed onboard a Red Funnel hydrofoil as it scoots across the Solent in this nostalgic advert from 1969

Is comedian Clive Dunn the Don Draper of the British advertising world? Watch this imaginative Tyne Tees TV marketing film and decide.

See how stories made it onto the presses - the old fashioned way - in this fascinating and nostalgic film promoting the Portsmouth Evening News

Merryweather Menswear 'have the flair to suit you!' A short and snappy 1965 cinema commercial for a Newmarket fashion retailer.

Trefro's Milk Bar, Ruthin, has lovable eclairs and the Taj Mahal Indian restaurants in Caernarfon and Bangor offer tables of enchantment!

The Ward's sealed leather shoe: tough enough for any building site.

Supa-Dukes: the boy proof boys' shoe with the all action look.

Cinema advertisement for Marine Lake & Ocean Beach, Rhyl, a popular destination for crowds set on a day's fun on free rides.

Headlining with the expulsion of South Africa from the Olympics in 1970, the Yorkshire Post sells itself as much more than a local paper.

Tuning into the biggest consumer market for television advertising in Britain with Trident TV.

It's all hip and happening working in insurance, as this 1971 recruitment advertisement for Norwich Union, made for cinema screening, shows.

Yootha Joyce and Tommy Godfrey play the role of wife and husband newsagents in an ad for Yorkshire Post.

An Olympic Games hopeful bundles into a Leeds newsagents, only to be met by a new shopkeeper from The Smoke, bemused by the Yorkshire Post.

Enjoy this kaleidoscope of images taken aboard the MS Vistafjord - for an exclusive holiday cruise setting sail from Southampton

Cameras! Lights! Clapperboard! Documentary about the UK's top ad agency in 1979, Allen Brady & Marsh, and its quirky Chairman Peter Marsh.

Anglia TV news reporter Guy Michelmore in Long Stratton, Norfolk attempting to make a local news story about household bin bags interesting.

A bottle of Charbonnier Red brings romance by candlelight. 1970s cinema advertisement.

Actor, comedian, and Monty Python, John Cleese plays to type as a sophisticate loony in this advertisement for Pye Electronics of Cambridge.

Life is looking up! The war is over and the 'Corona Man' can visit his Corona families once more, door-to-door.

A drink for all occasions, but especially to relieve the stress of those brave souls battling fires, floods and well-behaved children.

Juno-Junipah, for girls, who “want to be bright, vivacious, attractive and slim”, and Carters Little Liver Pills to rejuvenate the elderly.

Without trying to be too clever, these advertisements demonstrate the virtue of the uncomplicated: short, sweet and memorable.

No wearisome overblown advertising for cinema-goers back in 1931, just straightforward advice: don’t risk accidents and “Don’t buy a dud!”

As the war comes to an end, and with an expectation that an end to food rationing would soon follow, why not indulge in a chocolate treat?