Image from the magnificent Advertising Archives. This is the earliest UK ad that we could find there: 1910s.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First sale of Coca-Cola in Britain
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Coca-Cola lost plaque
The first pouring of Coca-Cola in Great Britain was on this site 31st August ...
Other Subjects
O'Neill's
Chain of Irish themed public houses. The first was opened in Aberdeeen and there are currently (2013) forty-nine outlets.
The Black Cap
Public House. It was originally called the Mother Black Cap after a local legend concerning a witch, and had that name, according to licensing records, as early as 1751. In the mid 1960s it became ...
Smithfield Poultry Market
The original poultry market by Horace Jones was opened in 1875 but destroyed by fire in 1958. Our page for that fire has an image of the original building. The new building has a concrete elliptic...
Frost Fairs
There are records of the Thames freezing over as far back as CE 250. The piers of old London Bridge were broad and close together, meaning that they could get easily blocked creating a dam which wo...
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