Woman's Weekly / 26th July 1957
To continue the gas theme: the Gas Council were certainly busy in 1957, weren’t they? What really intrigues me, though, is ‘Mr Therm and the Whispering Fish invite you to Fish Week at the Tea Centre, Regent Street, SW1.’ Eh?
Tags: blatant sexism, Gas, Gas Council, social history
Woman's Weekly / 9th March 1957
Well, it’s interesting that advertisers are STILL using the ‘man useless at housework/cooking’ line, but what really makes this interesting is the ‘Fuel Emergency Notice’ and the claim that the gas industry made the best use of the nation’s coal (issued, naturally, by the Gas Council). Of course, this all makes sense when you consider that coal was rationed from the outbreak of WW2 and that the ration wasn’t actually lifted until a year after this advert, in 1958…
Tags: blatant sexism, coal, cooking, Gas, Gas Council, household, retail, social history