Published: 04/02/2010 00:00
BEFORE we return Maureen Clark's Bazaar Souvenir, a booklet put together by St Michael's Church in Brierley Hill in 1930, we'd just like to select a handful of the adverts which featured in it and helped finance its production.
As always with items of this nature, the advertisers were local businesses, and coming from a time when so many businesses were locally-owned and based in comparison to the modern era, they make interesting reading today.
The dairy mentioned in the adjacent article, Midland Counties, was one of the biggest and best known in those times, but there were many smaller concerns doing a brisk trade too. One such was The Brierley Hill Dairy Co., of Bank Street, who promised milk direct from their own farms, in sterilized, homogenized and pasteurized forms. It proudly claimed to be 'A Private Concern under Personal Supervision', presumably from Managing Director W.J. Thomas.
On the same page was an advert for Mrs G.H.
Vale, purveyor of Millinery, Gowns, Hosiery and Gloves, 'both smart and inexpensive'. Established 25 years earlier just after the turn of the century, Mrs Vale's shop was at number 50 Dudley Road.
At the bottom of the page was Smith & Williams, one of countless local independent brewers in those days. Their 'Prize Medal Ales' were concocted at the Town Brewery in Brierley Hill.
The dairy mentioned in the adjacent article, Midland Counties, was one of the biggest and best known in those times, but there were many smaller concerns doing a brisk trade too. One such was The Brierley Hill Dairy Co., of Bank Street, who promised milk direct from their own farms, in sterilized, homogenized and pasteurized forms. It proudly claimed to be 'A Private Concern under Personal Supervision', presumably from Managing Director W.J. Thomas.
On the same page was an advert for Mrs G.H.
Vale, purveyor of Millinery, Gowns, Hosiery and Gloves, 'both smart and inexpensive'. Established 25 years earlier just after the turn of the century, Mrs Vale's shop was at number 50 Dudley Road.
At the bottom of the page was Smith & Williams, one of countless local independent brewers in those days. Their 'Prize Medal Ales' were concocted at the Town Brewery in Brierley Hill.
