This one is for older grans…..not ageist honestly!

Biglouis When tea bags came in, I thought the wet used ones looked like little t*rds, and I couldn't bring myself to use them.

I am a little less squeamish now and will use fruit tea bags because they are usually, deep red wine colour when used.

In the early days the purpose of tea bags was to find a use for tea dust and cheaper tea leaves etc, so I stuck to loose tea. I only drink one cup of tea a day, so making it in a teapot with tea, makes a real break mid-afternoon.

NanKate

Was Molly Weir in the radio show ‘Life with the Lyons’ ?

Yes, she was

I remember Houseparty. cherry marshall and mary morris. two others I can't remember there names.. some on you tube. 1950/60

Was Molly Weir in the radio show ‘Life with the Lyons’ ?

Commercial tv started in 1955, so it could be an ITV programme

I dont think Ive ever made tea without tea bags. Far too messy.

No it was definitely Doris Something, that’s one thing I do remember. The programme itself was very low key. When Tetley’s started to advertise their tea bags, I think it was with Lady Isobel Barnett. I must say I have never come across cling film that was so user friendly (ie didn’t scrunch up so easily) and I have never got mine ‘as tight as a drum’!

Jimmy Hanley, Jim’s in 1957

I can't remember who ever promoted tea bags or thought they were a good idea.

I'm with the Granny who cut them open to put the leaves in the pot.

I still make my tea by puting leaves in the pot but I do buy a packet of tea leaves, I don't cut open teabags.

I wonder how much global warming has been caused over the last fifty years by the manufacture and use of totally unnecessary teabags?

Tetley appears to have promoted tea bags in 1953.
The programme?
The presenter?

Germanshepherdsmum

I think Philip Hagen stuck to cooking. There was Clement Freud too a bit later, looked like a bloodhound !

Yes I think Katy Boyle did advertise Camay.

Freud’s ad for Minced Morsels

V3ra

Not the programme you're asking about Lexisgranny but I can remember watching an afternoon ladies-only chat show called "House Party" on Southern television, I think in the 70s.

Guests rang a doorbell and were invited in, there were ladies demonstrating domestic skills or just chatting in the different rooms of the "house" and drinking coffee.
All very well groomed.

I used to watch it avidly and think how grown up it all seemed 🤣

That’s the one I was thinking of!
Thank you V3ra.
We had Central (nee ATV, I think) and I must have been very young.
Mind you, I remember Ernest Bishop being shot - and I was only four at the time!
Funny the things we remember

Yes.

Was Katie Boyle not the original presenter of The Eurovision Song Contest, who impressed us all with her fluency in French so we all learned how to perfectly pronounce "nil points"?

I don't think my friend's granny was concentrating when the teabags were being demonstrated. Apparently she would snip the tops off and pour the contents into her teapot.

I think Philip Hagen stuck to cooking. There was Clement Freud too a bit later, looked like a bloodhound !

Yes I think Katy Boyle did advertise Camay.

Unless it was BBC, it’s likely that your own TV region would put its own, local programmes out. So we might have had different programmes to you?
We didn't get a television until 1957.
But I remember Katie Boyle doing the advert later for cling film, my mother said it was ridiculous and would never work!

The name Katy Boyle reminds me of a Camay soap advert .Is this correct?

We got our TV for the coronation and I can recall Philip Harben. He was a well built guy with a beard. But I dont recall the show with the clingfilm or teabags.

Not the programme you're asking about Lexisgranny but I can remember watching an afternoon ladies-only chat show called "House Party" on Southern television, I think in the 70s.

Guests rang a doorbell and were invited in, there were ladies demonstrating domestic skills or just chatting in the different rooms of the "house" and drinking coffee.
All very well groomed.

I used to watch it avidly and think how grown up it all seemed 🤣

Maybe not Doris Rogers!

Philip Harben did a show with Marguerite Patten, could it have been her?

Lexisgranny

No it wasn’t Molly Weir I remember her. This lady was ( and here I am trying to choose my words carefully) of comfortable proportions, grey haired, probably about late fifties, though I find it difficult to put an age on anyone back then. There was a gentleman with her, but I can’t remember anything about him. She sticks in my mind because of my father’s aversion to tea bags, and the subsequent uncomplimentary comments when she appeared waving her box enthusiastically. They didn’t technically try to sell anything, more that they were displaying these wonderful new inventions, albeit mentioning their trade names.

Was it ‘Doris Rogers’?

The name has just come to me, and didn’t Philip Harben, a chef with a beard, do some cooking on the programme?

(Am now going to look up DR)!

Katek That could have been the title, but I seem to remember it was called a ‘Magazine’ programme, and I’m not sure that my father would have been watching a programme for housewives. I’ve been trying to pin down the approximate year, I think it was on for quite a while so I would probably say 1954-58. I’m basing this on the age I would be watching tv with my parents on Sunday afternoons! Thanks to you all for your interest.

I just read Katie Boyle's article on Wikipedia and noticed this

In Queen Elizabeth II: A Woman Who Is Not Amused by Nicholas Davies it is alleged that Boyle had a long-standing relationship with Prince Philip in the 1950s. Boyle told Gyles Brandreth: "It's ludicrous, pure fabrication. When it appears in print, people believe it. You can't take legal action because it fans the flames, so you just have to accept people telling complete lies about you."

No it wasn’t Molly Weir I remember her. This lady was ( and here I am trying to choose my words carefully) of comfortable proportions, grey haired, probably about late fifties, though I find it difficult to put an age on anyone back then. There was a gentleman with her, but I can’t remember anything about him. She sticks in my mind because of my father’s aversion to tea bags, and the subsequent uncomplimentary comments when she appeared waving her box enthusiastically. They didn’t technically try to sell anything, more that they were displaying these wonderful new inventions, albeit mentioning their trade names.