The Woolworths Museum

First ITV Commercial

The first advert went out live on ITA (then Britain's only commercial television network) as part of F.W. Woolworth's Jubilee celebrations in the Spring of 1959. We've recreated it, drawing on contemporary company documents and the surviving soundtrack. We've used HTML5 Video with Video.JS to create this page, which requires a Broadband connection and a recent web-browser. Closed captions are available if required by enabling this function in your browser and clicking 'CC'.

 

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Cinema content at a glance

Ranges:

The Good Ship Lollipop (Sweets)

 

Century of Toys

 

Easter Parade (Fashion)

 

The Last Noël (Xmas)

 

Video Launch

 

Advertising and Marketing:

 

First Commercial

 

The Wonder of Woolworth

 

Star Parade

 

Windows

 

Wannabeee (Wooly & Worth)

 

People:

 

1980s

 

1990s

 

The Noughties

 

Ugly Duckling store transformation 2003

 

Staff work for Kids First Charity