Various snuff related clips from British Pathe. I’m pretty sure the shop is the old Fribourg & Treyer shop.http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1656http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1657http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=44979
Hello Tony and thanks for sharing! How’s your wife, still in hospital? And how are you? I sincerely hope that both of you will be on the go before Christmas!
Good find ermtony, Just played a few seconds of each as I’m on my way out. It is the F&T shop by the way, I’ll play them all in the morning.
Thought I was right re the shop. My wife is still in hospital, not coping very well with the crutches and they won’t let her out until they’re sure she can cope. Not helped by her polyneuropathy, which affects balance quite badly. I think it will be next week before she’s home again. The house feels far too quiet without her here. Even after 30 years of marriage I miss her horribly when she isn’t here.
My best wishes for the both of you. My mother had MS. I’m sure your love and care are as important to her health and recovery as anything a doctor can do.
Tony, I’m sure I speak for the rest of us, but if there’s anything we can do to help, just say the word. I’ve been there before. i wish your wife and you the best.
excellent clips there … a 4 million pound industry in the sixties whoa
nice site as well type in tobacco lots of clips there
My uncle has MS as well Tony. Hopefully the upcoming cold weather will help out!
Great links! Was I the only one that couldn’t get sound on the second clip?
snuffegnugen yeah no sound on the second clip says so on the right hand side of video
Nice find. I do have a question. In those clips it seems they are taking quite small pinches. Is that normal for real(old time) snuffers? I take easily twice or more than that per sniff. I’ve always wondered what the average pinch size is. On here I’ve read everything from apple seed to woolly worm. Can anybody help a guy out?
I love old films like that…I was usually the projectionist nerd in school (remember ACTUAL FILM, kids?) because I was the only 4th grader who knew how to thread and frame a 16 mm. Enkei.
Great films! That site has all sorts of stuff, looks like I’m never getting anything done again. I was wondering about the pinch sizes, maybe they didn’t want snuff all over their faces on film. I know I take much smaller pinches in public.
And certain people made a stink about the way I titled one of my threads… I ain’t sayin’, I’m just sayin’.
Oh yeah, and thanks for sharing these links!
I never got to see the title, so I feel out of the loop. Thanks for the links Tony. Hope Penny gets better soon!
Fabulous clips. The shop is of course Smiths and there is a young Vivien Rose in there who was still around when I started using the shop in 1980, I can remember him using those scales to weigh the HDT I used to buy by the ounce and which he would put into your snuff box for you. A vanished world. I was born in '64 so wasn’t around for this snuff revival they mention -anyone old enough to remember it?
Great videos! Truly.
Great clips ! The British Pathe site is really good. Definitely the F&T shop - you can see “34” marked on the door in one shot and you can see the curve of the bow windows. (Which are still there, by the way. Last time I passed by it was a shop selling tourist tat). I like the snuff hankies with the tins of F&T on them ! P.S. Best wishes to your wife ermtony.