What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
If you’ve always been intrigued by the painted advertising sign in Hunslet Carr, a new exhibition exploring the evolution of advertising and the suspect sales tactics employed by crafty companies through history may be of interest to you. The Power of Persuasion will cast a critical eye over the spurious
It must go without saying that we are all very grateful for our wonderful National Health Service especially during this awful pandemic. But we did not always have the NHS. It was the post-war Labour Government which created the NHS in 1948 to give treatment free of charge at the
Here’s a little more information linking to the restoration of the Bile Beans advert in Hunslet. Bile Beans were pills which purported to cure everything from biliousness to “Headache, indigestion, constipation, piles, debility, female weakness, dizziness, sallow complexions, pimples, impure blood and liver, stomach and bowel troubles.” Wow! All that
When a modern advertising hoarding was removed from the end of a row of houses at the Balm Road junction in Hunslet Carr several years ago it revealed an old hand painted sign promoting Bile Beans. This type of advertising sign was the forerunner of the modern advertisements papered on