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Sunday, 5 June 2011

CUTHBERT'S ADS - 1970'S

2 ads for Cuthbert's Sunshine Bakery in Ure Street.
Top one is 1973, the one below it 1974.
Those of you who know your 70's TV catch phrases will recognise the "Ooh you are awful" one.
It's from the Dick Emery Show - vox pop with double entendres.
Where's Hawkill?
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7 comments:

  1. Jim (ex-employee)8 June 2011 at 02:54

    Don't know where Hawkhill went, but the bakery premises were still in Ure Street, now occupied by an engineering company, though the old flour silo still stands near the gate.

    Cuthberts were bought over by a national company and the staff offered moves to Livingston, c. 1978. Graeme Cuthbert opened another bakery in Dundee, but not under the family name.

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  2. Gordon JC Pearce6 July 2011 at 05:36

    My dad used to work for Cuthberts, maintaining their vans and Graeme's Van Diemen Formula Ford car - there's a photo of him sitting beside it on the grid at Ingleston, taken a week or so before I was born ;-)

    I remember visiting Agra Engineering which is I believe on the site of the old bakery in about the early 80s with him.

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    1. John falconer8 August 2017 at 05:51

      I used to work at cuthberts maintaining their vans in the mid seventies. Worked with a ex army mechanic called Brian? Then I left and went to Sunblest.

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  3. 39steps30 November 2012 at 04:07

    I'm assuming the 'Where's Hawkhill' question is ironic? I worked at Cuthberts in 1974 on Saturday nights making the rolls and packing rpounds of shortbread. the family were still heavily involved with Graeme (in his 20's or 30's) living near the Harris and actively involved in racing, his dad regularly running the bakery and even an old 'auntie' selling hot mince rolls in the attached shop that was open all hours. They kept the mince hot in a saucepan placed under the ovens that we baked the rolls in!

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    1. RETRO DUNDEE14 October 2015 at 13:38

      No no no - my question wasn't ironic.
      If you look closer at the bottom ad, they've spelt it HAWKILL - with no H.
      GG

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    2. Anonymous3 October 2024 at 12:54

      I remember going to Cuthberts, off the Hawkill, in the 70's late at night after a few drinks. They served the best filled rolls from the shop attached to the bakery. It was a life saver!

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  4. Anonymous17 June 2024 at 11:29

    I worked there (nights) in the 70s on the production line then ended up driving the delivery van

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