What was brentford nylons

They got Alan Freeman doing the voiceover work. Throughout the s, Fluff was the voice of Brentford Nylons. Within this 17 second clip, we see the presenter extolling the joys of nylon bedsheets.

Or poly-cotton. The products were cheap for the time, but were they cheerful? Sweat-tastic they were. Plus the amount of static electricity from the nylon bedsheets. Even so, customers bought in droves and kept their Pelaw factory running.

Without immigration, there would have been no Brentford Nylons. It was founded by Harry Pambakian who came over to London from Armenia. He built the company up to its early s heyday. Most of their shops appeared in many large towns and cities.

Its main driver being value-led customers. To fulfil the demand, another factory was opened in Pelaw, County Durham. In , Brentford Nylons went into receivership, and Lonrho bought the chain from its receivers. Things continued as normal till the end of the decade, when its workforce reached the 1, mark. Proving that trying to polish a turd can never be easy, its efforts in market repositioning were unnoticed by its shoppers. I do remember the odd itchy nightie. Show more opinions. Copied to clipboard.

Log in to Toluna or. Not me. Please enter correct Toluna credentials. Remember me. Share your opinions with the world. Log in to Toluna. We have disabled our Facebook login process. Please enter your Facebook email to receive a password creation link. Cancel Send link. Join Toluna. The nights when you and your blonde teenage girlfriend would indulge in carnal pleasures, all snug and warm in her single bed in Willesden with its Brentford Nylons fitted sheets and pillow case.

Sorry, am I reminiscing too much here? In the morning, you'd reluctantly drag your sweating exhausted body away from her charms and set foot out of the bed only to be laid out by a massive charge of static electricity. Brentfords, the former Brentford Nylons business, was eventually sold at a knock-down price and the new owner did not think the name worth having.

Brentford Nylons was one of the best-known and least-loved names of the s. It never shrugged off the image of electro-statically charged sheets, and an advertising campaign starring the disc jockey Alan Freeman, so it was sold to Roseby's, a Rotherham-based retailer. Roseby's promptly dropped the name which then disappeared into history.

The chief executive of Rosebys, said: "Our research showed that the stores' main weak point was the name. People would sooner be seen with a plain white carrier than a Brentfords bag. It took decades for the Brentfords name finally to go the way of the striped tank-top and the drip-dry shirt. The stores enjoyed their heyday in the s when nylon sheets were popular, but lost favour in the design-conscious s.