Chasing a Meme in London

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@R.J._Lewis Ай бұрын

A Jago video without even a mention of a train?! It must be protected, for it is rarer than unicorn farts!

@roderickmain9697 Ай бұрын

I'm sure if he'd stopped for a few minutes there could have been a reference to Charles Tyson Yerkes bringing electricity to the Underground. I do like a good C.T.Y. reference.

@tims9434 Ай бұрын

Still mentions stations though

@trevorelliston1 Ай бұрын

You missed the one on Bile’s beans?

@juliansadler6263 Ай бұрын

Let electricity do it ... I don't think the electric chair was available for households.

@stephenlee5929 Ай бұрын

@@trevorelliston1 I think that one mentioned the National Railway Museum though.

@bobgnarley1 Ай бұрын

"Don't kill your wife with work, let electicity do it!". That's given me an idea! She's in for a shock...

@tahirarafique4620 Ай бұрын

The power of pronouns! This was my initial reaction until I realised "it" meant "the work".

@john1703 Ай бұрын

@@tahirarafique4620 which is grammatically correct. Pronouns do refer to the last previous noun.

@joshuabessire9169 Ай бұрын

Flower pedals leading to the bathroom, where you have set up a bubble bath, scented candles, and fresh toast.

@witzendoz Ай бұрын

That’s how I first read it

@christopherwright8388 Ай бұрын

@@joshuabessire9169 🛁🍞🎚⚡️⚰️🪦

@AndreiTupolev Ай бұрын

Dr Scott's Electric Hair Brush, now *there's* a name for a band

@apolloc.vermouth5672 Ай бұрын

I'm hereby claiming that name, hands off!

@jappedut9009 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂❤

@vacuumdiagram Ай бұрын

Great Scott!

@MarkMcCluney Ай бұрын

You beat me to it.

@jonc4403 Ай бұрын

@@vacuumdiagram Frank N. Furter! We meet at last!

@jaakkomantyjarvi7515 Ай бұрын

It's reassuring to know that even native English speakers can inadvertently produce something like this. I'm reminded of the Swedish vacuum cleaner that didn't sell terribly well in the USA because of its slogan "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux".

@andrewholdaway813 Ай бұрын

I'm fairly sure it wasn't inadvertent. Humour pre-dates electricity.

@johnspurgeon9083 Ай бұрын

Wasn't it Vauxhall that tried to market the Nova in South America? After poor sales they realised that Nova in Spanish means "won't go".

@Michael75579 Ай бұрын

Possibly apocryphal, but there's also the "Wang cares" adverts.

@dunebasher1971 Ай бұрын

@@johnspurgeon9083 That's an urban myth. It was Chevrolet, and the Nova actually sold better in South America than expected. Nobody who spoke Spanish was going to confuse "Nova" with "no va", they read and sound completely differently, just as an English speaker would not confuse "carpet" and "car pet". The final nail in the coffin of the myth is that a Spanish speaker would not use the phrase "no va" to mean "doesn't go" anyway, even though it's a literal (although ungrammatical) translation.

@Sim0nTrains Ай бұрын

I saw Jago Hazzard last night in the pub with Charles Tyson Yerkes! Sure that is the perfect alibi that won't spark any curiosity!

@badenmelhuish3215 Ай бұрын

Shocking !.

@bostonrailfan2427 Ай бұрын

it would: was he fighting Yerkes over being American or swindling money from Brits?

@neville132bbk Ай бұрын

...There are lines of common interest connecting them....

@RogersRamblings Ай бұрын

An electrifying tale unampered by current puns.

@loddude5706 Ай бұрын

Or the BBC Ohm Service . . .

@truckerallikatuk Ай бұрын

I see volt you did there... don't think I didn't!

@johnmurray8428 Ай бұрын

I only comment with resistance and without impedance.

@craigthomson3621 Ай бұрын

There are some bright sparks commenting on this thread!

@neville132bbk Ай бұрын

Temp here ( Levin NZ ) promises to be 17*... the current pun will be doing its job.

@ianhelps3749 Ай бұрын

Have to admite Jago's capacitor for humour.

@DWilt55 Ай бұрын

17 Sept 1916, "The Morning Call" (Santa Barbara, Calif newspaper, but attributed to the Detroit Free Press): "A southern laundry advertises: 'Don't kill your wife. Let us do the dirty work.' "

@PabloBD Ай бұрын

me: Oh look a funny meme! Jago: let's talk about electricity in London in the 1920s me: ok, sure

@marknpm Ай бұрын

There used to be a laundry and dry cleaner's on Green Street near Upton Park station with a clock bearing the simpler slogan "Don't kill your wife. Let us do it". Whether it predates the Willesden example, I don't know.

@ianmoseley9910 Ай бұрын

I seem to recall the sign from the 1950s, but no idea when it first appeared. There is still a laundry business in part of the building.

@JuhanaSiren Ай бұрын

I remember that one, too, was about to comment about it!

@makkari1 Ай бұрын

Now in the Passmore Edwards collection.

@TheDailyRant2023 26 күн бұрын

Always raised a smile that did on the walk from the station to They Boleyn Ground every other week. Never tired of it, the hustle and bustle, the smell of fried opinions and burgers, Ken's Cafe, etc. Sigh. Never to be repeated.

@PaulSmith-pl7fo Ай бұрын

Thank you, Jago. We are now no longer in the dark!

@MarkMcCluney Ай бұрын

Very enjoyable. Sorry to hear about your wife. These things happen, of course.

@blameless_hyperborean8638 Ай бұрын

I am sure Lady Hazzard was well insured and that Jago will endure his sorrow with fortitude.

@playwithmeinsecondlife6129 Ай бұрын

It's reassuring to find that even an Englishman can't read English place names with certainty.

@allangriffiths9555 Ай бұрын

Hi Jago One of these ads is on display in the Milne Electricity Hall in the Amberley Museum in West Sussex. If you or your viewers or anybody interested in industrial heritage haven't been there, I can highly recommend it. It's a cracking day out and right next to Amberley railway station so easily accessible by train.

@AtheistOrphan Ай бұрын

I agree. I was a volunteer there when it first opened under the not-so-appealing name of ‘The Chalk Pits Museum’.

@neville132bbk Ай бұрын

As it's the Milne Elec. Hall I should think it is always a crackling good day.

@martinalooksatthings Ай бұрын

But Charles Yerkes must have been involved, somehow

@xxxggthyf Ай бұрын

🤣

@musiqtee Ай бұрын

Electricity did the work for him, 3rd rail. His wife probably badly earthed, or well insulated…?

@neville132bbk Ай бұрын

..generating plans,, or lines of development.....

@johnhehir508 Ай бұрын

Do not kill your wife with electricity!! Hard work is cheaper and your less likely to get prosecuted😂😂😂😂😂😂

@rodneybaldwin2278 Ай бұрын

It's comforting to see that ignorance of the apostrophe is nothing new!

@martinparkinson3665 Ай бұрын

My dear departed Grandfather worked for the Westminster , Kensington and Chelsea Electricity Board in the 1930s , which became part of the London Electricity Board post-WW2 Not particularly interesting for you but aided my enjoyment of the video . Also his Father was a farrier who worked on the railways at Nine Elms ...

@neville132bbk Ай бұрын

Redeemed and then some by the last sentence.

@wilsonlaidlaw Ай бұрын

I can just see some spotty clerk in Willesden sniggering when drafting this advert and thinking, nobody else will see the double entendre.

@paulketchupwitheverything767 Ай бұрын

Walking through Wapping one day I noticed an inscription 'The London Hydraulic Power Company' on an old industrial building. I learned that there was once a network of pipes supplying pressurised water to drive machinery and equipment to businesses across London. Some of it was still in use into the 1970s. Great video on an alternating topic. Thanks.

@schwadevivre4158 Ай бұрын

There was an hydraulic lift in the British Museum which I used several times c. 1974

@petermatyas4834 Ай бұрын

a topic directly responsible for some diversion? :)

@VictorianDad Ай бұрын

The lack of an apostrophe in "Dont" is A) triggering and B) makes me doubt its authenticity.

@caw25sha Ай бұрын

There's never a greengrocer around when you need one to check your punctuation.

@Tevildo Ай бұрын

Ahh, quite clearly, the advertisment is addressed to Mr Dont, the notorious uxoricide, suggesting _two_ ways for his disposal of unwanted spouses.

@andrewgwilliam4831 Ай бұрын

Sometimes these things are (faulty) recreations of things that once existed.

@misterthegeoff9767 Ай бұрын

@@caw25sha the greengrocer nearby was the problem, he stole the apostrophe because he had used all of his up! I say this lovingly as the son of a greengrocer with appalling spelling and punctuation skills.

@stephenlee5929 Ай бұрын

@@Tevildo An alternative to Mr Right, the much sort after potential husband.

@johncrwarner Ай бұрын

My mother belonged to the "Electrical Ladies" as she called it. It was officially the "Electrical Association for Women" and was a feminist and educational charity aimed to educate women on how to use electricity in the home. Definitely think there is something to say about the history of electricity in London as an occasional series in the Jago Hazzard canon. BTW I did laugh out loud to the amusement of the others at your parting line!

@geirmyrvagnes8718 Ай бұрын

Jimi Hendrix recorded the album Electric Ladyland, and his rhythm section was English. So that could be where he got it from.

@neville132bbk Ай бұрын

Women of power, obviously.

@oc2phish07 Ай бұрын

In the 1950s I lived not far from Salusbury Road, and used the Library that is still there to this day. Our electricity was supplied by 'The Fixed Price Light Company' and I recall that it was a twin wire supply with no Earth connection. How did they get away with it?

@paulsengupta971 Ай бұрын

That's how they do it now. Your earth is on an earth rod in (outside) your house or to the water pipes.

@SteveW139 Ай бұрын

@@paulsengupta971In the UK several different kinds of earthing (grounding) arrangements are permitted depending on the District Network Operator’s (supply company) connection.

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

The so-called 'neutral' is effectively an earth... But onto more important things - how was that road name pronounced?!!

@katycarr9819 Ай бұрын

So how DO you pronounce Salusbury?

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

@@katycarr9819 sorlsbury

@caw25sha Ай бұрын

The original Edison type power stations generated DC at low voltage which couldn't get far and therefore needed a lot of small power stations. The later Tesla type AC was much higher voltage and could go run distances without getting tired. Tesla was a clever bloke but mad as a box of frogs.

@brettpalfrey4665 Ай бұрын

beat me to it!!

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

Odd that the current user of the name 'Tesla'' is also madder than a box of frogs.

@andyknott8148 Ай бұрын

I believe in the AC/DC war in the Sates, a dog was killed to show that one of the types was more dangerous, but that may be apocryphal.

@LancashireLass Ай бұрын

Edison was also as mad as a box of frogs, and zapped a number of animals in public in an attempt to put people off AC power.

@pauljmccluskey5532 Ай бұрын

20:59 that made me laugh! Good old fashioned joke that so many people have forgotten how to laugh… there’s too much seriousness in this world! Thank goodness for much light and education from your vlogs ☺️

@ianmoseley9910 Ай бұрын

Worth mentioning that Savoy Theatre was allegedly the first building in London to be lit entirely by electricity using Joseph Swan's lightbulb which was on the market in the UK before Edison's version.

@TheSmart-CasualGamer Ай бұрын

Is Swann the guy who once attempted to use his own beard hair as a test filament?

@jessicabudden5695 Ай бұрын

In that theatre, Arthur Sullivan decided to put lights in his baton so the orchestra could see him during the first ever theatrical blackout… (blackouts weren’t possible in the days of gas lamps).

@thomasawl Ай бұрын

2:02 *‘DR. SCOTT’S ELECTRIC HAIR BRUSH’* ah yes, completely forgot he had a career before rocky horror…

@CyclingSteve Ай бұрын

A search for "don't kill your wife let us do it clock" will bring up photos of an Upton Park dry cleaners Blossom and Browne's Sycamore, that used to be opposite the tube station. The phrase was quite prominent on a clock above the door.

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

Not a 'tube' station - that's the District Line!

@CyclingSteve Ай бұрын

@@paulhaynes8045 with walkthrough cars the train is the tube. 😁

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

@@CyclingSteve I discovered they've got those on the Thameslink services too, the other day. On the Underground, with all its tight bends, they look ok, but on the much straighter Thameslink lined, you can see down the entire length of the (much longer) train, and I found that quite disturbing!

@tw25rw Ай бұрын

It's gone now, but you can see it if you go back a few years. Shame it was removed.

@zetectic7968 Ай бұрын

This from Wikipedia "Ferranti or Ferranti International PLC was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. "

@whyyoulidl Ай бұрын

I seem to remember Ferranti in computing (printer, PC, monitor et al) when on the acclaimed £16.50/week YTS back in the day...

@ZGryphon Ай бұрын

This reminds me of something in one of my undergrad textbooks (Marcus and Segal's _Technology in America: A Brief History,_ second edition, if you're curious). On page 177, there's a reprint of a vintage vacuum cleaner advertisement that reveals one of my favorite things about the earliest days of electrification: For a short period after the realization that it could be useful for more than just lighting, no one had really figured out _how_ to use it for more than just lighting. The ad features an illustration of an improbably-well-dressed woman cleaning a rug in what looks like a parlor with an early upright vacuum cleaner... the electrical cord of which appears to be hanging straight down from somewhere above the picture. The explanation is that it's connected to the light fixture in the ceiling, in place of the incandescent bulb that would normally be there. The, uh, limitations of this approach should be fairly obvious, but... that's how they did it before someone invented the wall outlet, at least here in the US. :)

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

Often still done like that here in the UK when I was kid - 50s/60s.

@mikehebdentrains Ай бұрын

Yes I remember that too. Many appliances had a round 2-pin plug (nominally 5amp but no fuses of course) with an adapter attached by a piece of braided cord. Adapter converted the 2 pin plug to a bayonet (light bulb) fitting.

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

The appliance I most remember being used in this way was the iron. It was quite common to see someone ironing, with the iron plugged into the ceiling light socket. I don't remember anyone ever plugging a vacuum cleaner or washing machine (for instance) into a light socket, so I assume that we did have normal power sockets by then. So perhaps the ironing thing was some sort of hangover from the days when there were no sockets. It had become the way you used an iron. Or perhaps it was to do with the length of the flex, and the fact that sockets in the UK were usually placed at skirting board level, so were inconvenient for anything that was used at ironing board level and/or wasn't permanently plugged in. But the thing that always puzzled me about this was that, if you plugged the iron into the light socket, you had to remove the light bulb - which meant you were ironing in poor light! And you couldn't even move the ironing board towards a window, as the light fitting in the UK was invariably in the middle of the ceiling!

@NHGMitchell Ай бұрын

This slogan was reported in a letter to the Times, published on 19 March 1936.

@foowashere Ай бұрын

Thank you for the research!

@apolloc.vermouth5672 Ай бұрын

A meme to go with that old chestnut 'Stay In The Pink With Ciggies And Drink!"

@michaelXXLF Ай бұрын

You made it through 5 minutes of this topic without even mentioning the obvious call to femicide! Good job! 😁 Also, thanks for having "Solsbury Hill" stuck in my head now!

@thhseeking Ай бұрын

Can you see the city lights?

@stephenbrasher Ай бұрын

I've found an advert in the Somerset Standard dated Friday 11th June 1937 which has the slogan "Don't kill your wife with housework! Let a CWS vacuum cleaner do the work". CWS being the Co-operative Wholesale Society (Froome branch in this case).Even closer I've found another advert from March 1940 placed by a shop in Ashbourne called MikiJohns which runs : " An Advertiser once said : 'Don't kill your wife with housework! Let us do it for you by electricity!". The advertising copy goes on thus: "This is not what he intended to convey but what he did intend is obvious" and goes on to laud the virtues of buying an Electric Washer (washing machine). Both of these tend to indicate that the phrase had been in circulation for some time.

@glynwelshkarelian3489 Ай бұрын

The supply of domestic electricity wasn't standardised until after WWII. Some areas had a monopoly supplier, but I have heard of some areas with a choice of 3 different voltage suppliers. Apart from anything else any mains device had to be manufactured in many different versions for the different supplies. Gas did try to complete. You could get gas powered fridges and radios between the wars.

@caw25sha Ай бұрын

I think my parents had a gas fridge in the 70s in their caravan. Calor gas obviously, not the household stuff.

@trained_4_life Ай бұрын

We had a gas fridge in the 1950s and 1960s in North London

@tonys1636 Ай бұрын

Gas fridges were still made well into the 70's, still are for camping and Caravans. Many people changed to electric as many older gas ones could not be converted to Natural Gas or bought a new gas one.

@misterthegeoff9767 Ай бұрын

I grew up in a house built in the 1930s which contained the remnants of 3 different standards for mains socket layouts; 2 pin European style, 3 round pins with a larger earth pin and the UK standard one we know today.

@markiangooley Ай бұрын

Gas fired fridges are still manufactured, aimed at people who don’t have a good electric supply but can get gas, and those Amish who tolerate some technology but not any involving electricity.

@K1W1fly Ай бұрын

The Ferranti company was still making electrical / electronic stuff (including radar and electronics for Tornado fighter bombers) until it went bankrupt in the 1990s.

@telhudson863 Ай бұрын

I grew up living in a flat in Walthamstow. From our balcony we had a good view of the local power station on the horizon - not far from Walthamstow (Queens Road). It was coal fired and no doubt contributed to the goods traffic on the otherwise commuter line.

@peabody1976 Ай бұрын

I love how you can make any topic seem powerful and current, Jago! And given the UK's state of electricity supply and production, it's very timely too. It also tangentially fits your previous videos about electrification of the rail lines around London, so double win.

@grahamshakeshaft2373 Ай бұрын

All comments about electricity must be current.

@darganx Ай бұрын

This video is a bit TOO local for me - nearly choked on my snack when you said Salusbury (pronounced Sallsbury) Road! The location is a short walk from Queens Park station. Then you go to Taylors Lane power station, which I can see from my bedroom window.. is Jago out there??

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

He's always out there somewhere...

@davidgrainger5378 Ай бұрын

I remember a cinema advert as last as about 1960 for a Smethwick (near Birmingham( laundry with the slogan 'Don't kill your wife with washing. Let us do it for you,' I think I saw the same advert with a different laundry name in Worcester even later.

@petermatyas4834 Ай бұрын

"this felt a little... for want of a better word... cute". That killed me :D

@MadBiker-vj5qj Ай бұрын

There used to be a variation of the slogan above an electrical appliance shop in Green Street, Forest Gate, E.London. A big yellow sign, it was something along the lines of "Don't kill your wife with work, let us do it". I remember it clearly because my dad took me there specially to see it in the 1960's LOL.

@tw25rw Ай бұрын

I know one similar in Upton Park near the old stadium saying close to that. But it's a laundry.

@MadBiker-vj5qj Ай бұрын

@@tw25rw Oh, wow, yes that's jogged my memory, it was indeed a laundry advert. I think the electrical goods bit must have got muddled into it because of the video subject.

@emjayay Ай бұрын

Cool T there at the end of DEPT at 4:35. Not to mention the dot at the bottom of the exclamation mark on WORK!

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

Well spotted! I remember abbreviated words often being written in that way on signs, etc, when I was a kid.

@jth385 Ай бұрын

I must admit, I was SHOCKED by this installment from Jago, not a train in sight during the main pressentation, not even an electric one.... (still a good one though)

@camberweller Ай бұрын

That one has been taped up on the fusebox downstairs for some time.

@foggyrf9 Ай бұрын

That must be your funniest sign off yet! Interesting stuff.

@AtheistOrphan Ай бұрын

Reminds me of ‘Hundreds use our service - They don’t know any better!’ And ‘The first time I took Phensic, I got this awful headache’

@simonf8902 Ай бұрын

Jago is electrifying

@AndreiTupolev Ай бұрын

How exciting! It's like tracking down 221B Baker Street (which was nowhere near where the current day Sherlock Holmes Museum has it, as the numbering has been completely changed since then and it would actually have been much further down towards Oxford Street, but I'm going off on a non sequitur here)

@SteamCrane 27 күн бұрын

Is nothing sacred?

@tonys1636 Ай бұрын

Don't think they would go down to well today, as a tad sexist like that wartime one about watching what one spoke about "Be like Dad and keep Mum".

@laurencefraser Ай бұрын

I mean, how much is sexism, and how much is 'joke referencing the actual state of things at the time'? Either way it doesn't age well, of course... though in the latter case it's at least partially precisely because of the very thing they're talking about (the normalisation of using electrical appliances to substantially reduce the amount of work involved in doing housework) actually happened.

@tardismole Ай бұрын

Reminds me of Rumbelows. Remember them? "Saves you money and serves you right." We had a lot of fun changing the tone of that one. And they had a sign in the window; "Nothing sucks like an electrolux." Which, as you can imagine, garnered a LOT of suggestive graffiti.

@MrBillmcminn Ай бұрын

A history of electricity in London and no mention of the first electric street lighting in Brixton, Then again Eddy Grant is say “Don’t do electric avenue” In his one and only hit song!!

@msg5507 Ай бұрын

Jago has made a video about that already. (He's getting like The Simpsons.)

@hairyairey Ай бұрын

Could be Jago's most shocking video ever. But it's good that he keeps things current 😂

@johnledingham852 Ай бұрын

Sign I saw on a shop: "Don't Go Elsewhere And Get Robbed...Come In Here!"

@johnmarlow2887 Ай бұрын

My Grandma was supplied with DC electricity in Wood Green until the early 1950s. She only switched on the electric lamps to light the gas lamp. She claimed that the gas light also gave heat and, thus, saved coal which was in short supply just after the war. Finchley Telephone Exchange and two local printers had a DC supply for the motors on certain equipment until 1953. I was an apprentice and helped in the changing of the DC motors to AC ones.

@DavidShepheard Ай бұрын

"Don't kill your wife with work, let the thing that Jago inserted into the video do it!"

@norbitonflyer5625 Ай бұрын

Electricity was certainly important to my mother's work. Her first job was at Deptford Power station. Nice to see it 3.29 , although it looked a bit different by the time she started work there, in 1951.

@bubblebus1 Ай бұрын

Refreshingly different. It takes me back to the days of the High Street having shops for the Electricity Board and the Gas Board, selling appliances and good advice (ish).

@carolinegreenwell9086 Ай бұрын

sorry to hear about Mrs Hazzard's passing

@neville132bbk Ай бұрын

The Esteemed Jago fully switched on as always--no resistance from me. .. says LeviNZ keeping in the circuit of local knowledge.... trivial aside.. the smalll ex coalmining town of Reefton was the first town in NZ to have electric lighting...>>>"With mining came technology and innovation, and in August 1888 Reefton became the first place in New Zealand and the Southern Hemisphere to have a public supply of electricity, even before the fashionable suburbs of London."

@lamudri Ай бұрын

I was quite confident at guessing “You are the power station to my ”, so “alibi” and the rest took me by surprise!

@hublanderuk Ай бұрын

The Electrical Contracting Company i use to work for use to put Est 1898. In the reception they had the first electric motor developed by the company in the wild west days of Electricity. My Nan said her Kettle never worked right when they converted it to 240 Volts from the system in there area.

@DanielsPolitics1 Ай бұрын

1:25 Ok, I’ll just buy a battery pack off Amazon.

@rory4127 Ай бұрын

You brighten my day, jago. with the glow of the screen, of course

@howardrisby9621 Ай бұрын

WooHoo .... first comment! Always love your output JH. It doesn't always have to be transport to be eclectic to be enjoyable!

@JJherne Ай бұрын

There used to be (still is?) a similar sign on a laundrette in Green Street, Upton Park: “ Don’t kill your wife, let us do it”.

@johncamp2567 Ай бұрын

JAGO: You are the Direct Current to my Alternating Current ⚡️

@bostonrailfan2427 Ай бұрын

Edison ended up having little actual input on the power generation, it was British Thomson-Houston that was doing it: Edison sold his shares in General Electric, British Thomson-Houston’s corporate owner, in 1890. they and British Westinghouse fought over the rights to distribute power, developing technology, and manufacturing equipment.

@1959BB Ай бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this, I've missed the London history videos of old!

@teecefamilykent Ай бұрын

Brilliant, just brilliant!

@JoeKerrigan-vb9zj Ай бұрын

Definitely "Sawls-bry".

@stephenpegum9776 Ай бұрын

I've always thought that Jago was a bright spark - and this video proves it ! 😎

@CarolineFord1 Ай бұрын

There was (I think still is but resited) a plaque about local electricity on Manor Place in Southwark.

@Anonymoususer_2023 Ай бұрын

Who doesn’t like a good old meme before the internet came in the late 1980s and now you see memes everywhere on the internet and on social media platforms.

@timhubbard8895 Ай бұрын

Absolutely shocking episode Jago! 😂

@AndrewG1989 Ай бұрын

Everyone loves a good meme. Even when there wasn’t no internet back in the good old days of advertisements that adverts were being shown all over the world.

@timarmes2207 Ай бұрын

Hello Jago, as a local and the son of an electrical engineer who worked there in the days of the old L.E.B. I can assure you that it's pronounced as in the cathedral city in Wiltshire, ie Salisbury.

@metrotechguru5863 Ай бұрын

Brilliant, as usual.

@Albanwinter 10 күн бұрын

I love that the business currently next to that building is called Dark and Light. Also, what is up with that Handelsbanken?! Now there's a name!

@paulgoodman8476 Ай бұрын

Shocking - but brilliant and enlightening nonetheless!

@bordershader Ай бұрын

My one big red flag about its historicity is the lack of apostrophe.

@BassandoForte Ай бұрын

I wonder if the possibility of a mains powered philatelic was the main reason for the slogan... 🤔🤣

@ukuleletyke Ай бұрын

An electric stamp-collector?

@QALibrary Ай бұрын

Thank you this was a great video

@ChrisKLewis 22 күн бұрын

Fascinating! Didn’t realise it was Councils who were initially responsible for power generation. Does this explain the later emergence of the local area electricity boards?

@SeverityOne Ай бұрын

What's that background noise at 3:12? Never heard anything like that before in one of Jago's videos.

@caw25sha Ай бұрын

I think it was a passer by talking.

@AndreiTupolev Ай бұрын

I think it was someone on Mr. Edison's Portable Telephonic Communication Device going by as that bit was being filmed

@jonathanmahoney1672 Ай бұрын

Great idea for a video! 🙂

@Jimyjames73 Ай бұрын

Jago - that was very electrifying!!! He he 😉😁🚂🚂🚂

@markstott6689 Ай бұрын

Thanks. That was in interesting meander through the beginnings of an electrified London. I shall assume that it was a similar story in the provinces. Unless of course, you advise us otherwise. 😊❤😊

@jekanyika Ай бұрын

Is this an ad for an electric chair?

@schwadevivre4158 Ай бұрын

"More than a flash in the pan" b'dum t'sk

@NickyMitchell85 Ай бұрын

Fascinating 🤨 video as always, Sir Jago Hazzard!

@isashax Ай бұрын

What an electrifying video!

@joshuabessire9169 Ай бұрын

Cool, Jeaney Collects posted! Wait this sounds like Jago Hazzard.

@Peter-mj6lz Ай бұрын

Nowadays or might be “Don’t kill yourself with work, let ai do it.”

@18robsmith Ай бұрын

Ah you are such a bright spark Jago to bring us such a shocking tail

@PokhrajRoy. Ай бұрын

1950s is a convenient time period to think of boomer humour but sexist ads have always existed, I guess.

@mrcogginsgarage7062 Ай бұрын

Interesting tale Dear Jago,however Shocking the ending...

@talideon Ай бұрын

What bugs me most about that sign is the letterforms: they're so weirdly uneven, and some of them don't even appear to be from the same typeface!

@PMA65537 Ай бұрын

Then don't watch The Good the Bad and the Ugly.

@nigelcole1936 Ай бұрын

A shocking advert indeed

@wyldemusick Ай бұрын

Speaking of seeming quack cures using electricity, look up the history of vibrators -- a "cure" for "hysteria."

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

Or an urban myth...

@wyldemusick Ай бұрын

@@paulhaynes8045 Or not. The Victorian era got very weird.