Sunday 6 October, 2024

11 gloriously vintage adverts for Cadbury's chocolate

From the 1950s to today.

THE HUMBLE DAIRY Milk bar is celebrating its 80th birthday this year, after entering production for the first time in 1933.

Advertising has come a long way since then…

1. Dairy Milk, mid-1950s

2. Whole Nut, 1955

3. Dairy Milk, late 1960s

4. Golden Crisp, 1969

5. Dairy Milk, 1970

6. Flake girl in a poppy field, 1973

7. Milk Tray Man, 1960s/70s

8. Wispa, 1985

9. Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith Wispa ad, 1980s

10. Flake girl in the bath, 1991

11. And the sultry Caramel bunny, 2009

All images courtesy of Cadbury’s

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Michael Freeman

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