Idris Table Waters Advert for Idris Table Waters from the Bromley & District Times newspaper. Who made the Lemon Squash? …
Newspaper Advertisements
Below we have listed a variety of adverts which were published in the Bromley & District Times newspaper the two war time periods (1914-1918 and 1939-1945).
Please select which period you would like to browse, or use the search bar to narrow down a topic.
Soap Rationing
Advert from the Ministry of Food Soap Rationing From Monday, February 9th , soap may be bought only against a …
A Home Guard Against Winter Chills
Another advert for OXO which was published in the Bromley & District Times newspaper during the 1940’s. Read more about …
Showing at the Odeon – January 1942
Birth of the Blues Birth of the Blues is a 1941 American musical film whose plot loosely follows the origins …
Jones & Higgins Department Store
Useful ‘Coupon-free’ Gifts at reasonable prices Starting out as a one shopfront window business, Messrs Edwin Jones and George Randell …
Jones & Higgins: Reliable Furniture
Jones & Higgins for Quality – Value – Service Reliable Furniture Jones & Higgin make it possible for you to …
Look Out in the Blackout – Advert from WW2
Be careful when crossing For safety’s sake, before you start to cross, look right – look left – listen. Remember …
Recruits for the ATS needed URGENTLY
This notice was published in the local Bromley & District Times newspaper in October 1941, by the Ministry of Labour …
Cinema Listings for Bromley in 1941
This advert for the cinemas of Bromley lists the top films being shown for the 6 days following Monday 27th …
Quaker Relief in Britain
This advert featured in the Bromley & District Times newspaper in September 1941 Quaker Relief in Britain organised by THE …
Advertisement for Regent Portraits (Photographers)
“When Jack came home on leave…” …he realised how much happier his friends and family would be while he was …
Travel Advice: Don’t Travel at Whitsun, 1943
Advice from the Railway Executive Committee advising customers not to travel on Whitsun 1943 (which fell on Sunday 13th June), …
Dainty Wear for Tiny Tots
Loving the names of the children’s clothing from this advert in the Bromley & District Times from May 1940. The …
Rowntree’s Cocoa: Advert from 1943
Rowntree’s is a British confectionery business founded at Castlegate, York by Henry Isaac Rowntree, when he purchased the already established Tukes’ cocoa and chocolate …
Put Some Beef into it
Torox Cubes was a lesser known beef bouillon brand made in England by Hugson & Co. Ltd. Manchester (“Manufacturers of …
RAF “Presents” for Hitler
By the mid end of the Second War World, Britain began using larger ‘giant’ bombs against the enemy. They were …
What they Do and What they Wear: Lifebuoy Toilet Soap advert
Lifebuoy Toilet Soap was very much of a popular product being used during the Second World World. It reached it …
Swat that Squander Bug
The Squander Bug was propaganda character created during the Second War War by artist Phillip Boydell, an employee of the …
Daddy’s Medal: Devotion to Duty
This feature appeared in the Bromley & District Times calling for more to be done to save Daddy’s Medal… Our …
Trailblazing iconic fashion of the 1940s
Although we look back at the 1940’s and think of it as a decade of mostly war and hardship, it …
House of Perrings
This featured appeared in the Bromley & District Times in 1941, giving a lovely introduction to the family firm Perring. …
Caretaker needed for Smallpox Hospital – Job Advert, 1941
Looking for a job? Here’s a good one for a couple – but the remunerations is somewhat uneven but they …
Sending Parcels to the Front Line
Right from the outset of the second world war, British railways were the mainstay of the internal transport system. They …
Battle of the Atlantic
An example of how newspapers advertised the dramatics of the war to help sell newspapers. This advert for the News …
What do I do? – Ministry of Information Advice
The Ministry of Information (MOI), was a central government department created briefly at the end of the first world war, and again …
Travel Advert: Grey-Green Coach
Grey-Green was a bus and coach operator based in Stamford Hill and operated in London and the East of England. …
Influenza – The Best Known Safeguard against Infection is Ovaltine
‘Ovaltine’ was developed in Switzerland by Dr. George Wander in 1865 where it is known by its original name Ovomaltine …
Bromley War Weapons Week
Before the US entered the war, and still with the threat of invasion, War Weapon Weeks was a way to encourage people to …
Why Aren’t There More Trains?
Next time you are waiting for a train, and perhaps complaining about the lack of them, spare a thought for …
Hot Water! What’s the Idea?
Keeping the soldiers going! This advert for OXO featured in the Bromley & District Times in February 1941, to no …
Pet Food Adverts, 1941
In the Summer of 1939, before the outbreak of war, the National Air Raid Precautions Animals Committee (NARPAC) was formed. …
Getting a Good Night’s Rest in the Public Shelter
During early 1941 Britain was still in the midst of the Blitz, with no idea how long it was going …
Billy Brown’s Own Highway Code
Billy Brown of London Town was a cartoon character, drawn by English cartoonist David Langdon OBE, who featured on the London Transport …
Adding comfort to your Air Raid Shelter
Air raid shelters were not the most lavish place to have to spend your time. Primarily located in the garden, …
Part-Exchange Furniture in the 1940s
One of the ‘Perrings’ Furniture Store was located on the High Street in Sidcup. Perrings was a small family firm, …
How OXO helped Strengthen the Home Front
How OXO helped Strengthen the Home Front In 1840 a German chemist, by the name of Baron Justus von Liebig …
Men Wanted Now
The devastation left by the air raids on, and around, London was immense and people were needed to help with …
Three-Decker Bunk beds in Bromley Air Raid Shelter
Three-Decker Divans in Elm Bank Hotel Shelter The entrance to these improvised sleeping quarters is down a six-feet stairway directly …
No Waste! Tactics of the Kitchen Front
This advert, to help combat waste in the kitchen, featured in the Bromley & District Times newspaper on 20th September …
Autumn Fashions – 1940
For the fashion conscious in 1940, this advert appeared in the Bromley & District Times on 13th September 1940 …
Phosferine Advert
Another example of the type of advert used by Phosferine to advert their product, whereby they use the recommendation of …
Buy National War Bonds, Advert 1940
War Bonds – Britain’s Broadsides! Britain’s vast war effort calls for weapons of every calibre. National War Bonds are the …
Lifebuoy Soap – Advert, 1940
Lifebuoy was introduced in England by Lever Brothers in 1895, and marketed as a soap that could be used in …
Purchasing Furniture in 1940
Anyone for new furniture in the sale? A three-piece suite for under £24 Remember: Gns are guineas A guinea was …
Getting an Air Raid Shelter at Low Cost during the Battle of Britain
This advert for a concrete air raid shelter appeared in the Bromley & District Times at the start of the …
Do you like the boots? Bon Marché fashion
This advert for the Bon Marché store in Brixton appeared in the Bromley & District Times in early January 1917. …
Oh for an electric dish-washer!
The first dishwasher was invented in the USA in 1857 by Josephine Cochrane (trust a woman to realise the value …
Are you a lover of Sardines?
My husband love sardines, so this advert would have appealed to him. …
Is this the Ideal Summer Beverage?
Would an advert like this, as featured in the Bromley & District Times in July 1918, made you go out …
Don’t run any risk with Allotment cuts & brusies – Use Zam-Buk
The popularity of allotments at this time meant many could be liable to small scratches and cuts, which could quickly …
National War Bonds – invest every shilling you possibly can!
No sum can be too large! Another example of an advert, often seen in local newspapers, encouraging local people to invest …
3 looks for the Bromley Fashionistas – c.1918-style
For the lady of fashion in June – So elegant! The latest fashions brought to you from Sainsbury’s in June 1918 …
The Supreme test of British Womanhood
Adverts like this one from the Bromley & District Time (31st May 1918, page 6) appeared in local newspapers advertising …
Women of Britain – We Need You…
An advert which appeared in the Bromley & District Times on the 24th May 1918 (page 6), advertising for the …
No ration card required
In 1918, the British government set out new laws introducing the rationing of certain food; Sugar, meat, flour, butter, margarine and …
Our Soldiers Want More – Zam-Buk
Zam-Buk was advertised throughout the war. Our Soldiers Want More – Zam-Buk To Heal their CUTS, BAD FEET & TRENCH …
Dame Clara Ellen Butt performs in Bromley
Dame Clara Ellen Butt, DBE (1 February 1872 – 23 January 1936) was an English contralto. Her main career was as a …
Women Committee Set Up to Stop Girls Canoodling with Soldiers
During World War 1 a Women Committee was set up as there was concern about girls canoodling with the soldiers, …
New Suit or a Chocolate Egg for Easter?
How times have changed. I doubt very much that you would see an advert like this in the local newspaper …
Top Easter Fashions in 1918 from Sainsbury’s
So if you walking around the shops in 1918, these would have been the fashion statements that were on offer …
A little bit of butter; nice if you could get it
MARGARINE STOCKS REQUISITIONED DISTRIBUTION TO-MORROW MORNING The Bromley Food Control Committee have requisitioned a quantity of margarine in Bromley, which …
Must-have Christmas Gifts for the Family c.1917
Life may have been tough in 1917, but Christmas would soon arrive and there were presents to buy. Below is …
Lady Grocers keeping store in business
International Stores was noted as “The Biggest Grocers in the World”. During the war they were able to stay in …
Food Economy during wartime
During war time local stores would help customers visualise what they could spend their money on in adverts. Here ‘Worlds Store’, …
Word of warning from the London General Omnibus Company
The London General Omnibus Company often created adverts like this in local newspapers to help inform readers about the dangers …
Advert for LSD? Surely not in the Bromley Times!
Like the large letters L.S.D? No, drugs had not been legalised. This refers to pounds (L) shillings (S) and pence …
Who Said War Prices?
Taken from the Bromley & District Times on 5th January 1917 , this advert is promoting World’s Stores on East …
Phosferine #2
Another advert for Phosferine in the Bromley & District Times from 1917, and again another genuine soldier is using it, it …
Poisoned Sores
Another advert for Zam-Buk as featured in the local Bromley & District Times in 1917. Remember this was a …
Wearing Furs
Fur Coats, Fur Trimmed Coats, Cloth Coats, Furs and Millnery. In October 1917, the shops were advertising winter wear. Fur, …
The Bus Conductor
Some of us will still remember the days when we paid our fares to a bus conductor or conductress and …
Phosferine #1
Every few weeks an advert for Phosferine would appear, featuring a soldier and saying how it had helped him. I …
The House for Juvenile Clothing, 1917
Here are the fashions for the younger generation. No mobiles here, just running around! I think the Peter Pan Outfit …
Sainsbury’s Fashion, 1917
Yes, it is Sainsbury’s. When I started reading these newspapers I was surprised to see that at that time, …
‘It is nice, Mother!’
That is what the children say when their Cuts, Scrapes and Bruises are dressed with Zam-Buk. They have that soon-get-better …
Safety First
At first I thought this was an overcrowded escalator, but you can see it is an open-topped bus. It seems …
Fashions of January 1917
Winter Fashions from 1917 Medhurst’s Winter Sale At no other sale in the kingdom can you buy Royal Worcester Kidfitting …
