Egg Marketing Board: Have a Smashing Time

Egg Marketing Board: Have a Smashing Time

Are these giant eggs, or is it a tiny Beryl Reid?

Darling eggs at a bob a dozen? That's a penny an egg in old money, and the perfect excuse to roll out the Beryl. Celebrity appearances were common in commercials for the Egg Marketing Board, most famously with Tony Hancock. The popular and acclaimed actress Beryl Reid had the perfect mix of audience recognition, humour and warmth to capture attention and communicate a sales message in seconds.

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Tastes Great!

A smorgasbord of culinary delights and thirst-quenching refreshment awaits in this collection of food and drink adverts.

You are what you eat? Advertisers have long presented our food choices as much more than just a cure for hunger, but as a key lifestyle decision. The right purchase can help make you who you want to be; keep you and your kids happy, fit and healthy; save you time and keep you on the go; or impress your dinner party guests of your 'home cooking' skills - all as part of a balanced diet, naturally. And for liquid refreshment, try our choice of soft, hard, hot and cold drinks commercials, offering everything from social pick-me-up to elixir of family contentment. Cheers!

15 videos in this collection

Love on the Range

  • 1939

Cadbury's Chocolate The Factory in a Garden

  • 1931

Lyons Ice Cream - Kinema

  • 1934

Shippam's Chicken Supreme

  • 1960

Heinz Tomato Ketchup : Fish Patties

  • 1960

Heinz Baked Beans Common Market

  • 1972
This early Cadbury advert plays like a surreal outtake from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Elsie and the Brown Bunny

  • Bournville
  • 1921
Far-out guys and groovy gals drop doses of good strong coffee in this psychedelic 1968 ad for the hot black stuff.

Good Strong Coffee

  • 1968

Heinz - Egg Box

  • 1983

Lyons Ice Cream Commercial

  • 1938

RHM Nimble: Mini Car: 86108

  • 1964

Findus: Fishsticks: 85406

  • 1963

Carling Black Label Bike Girl

  • 1971

Egg Marketing Board: Have a Smashing Time (Beryl Reid)

  • 1966

Nimble Bread: Lunch Date

  • 1961
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