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2oz o' kali an' a spanish please, Missis!
2oz o' kali an' a spanish please, Missis!
Photo: irene roberts nee griffiths
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Item #: 12684
The corner shop.....The huge potato scales and the tiny toffee scales; the penny tray; cards hung up behind the counter holding combs and babies' dummies and the little bottles of patent medicines that our Mams swore by."Twink" home perms and Fairy Snow; Dolly blues and Spangles and big bottles of Lucozade in crinkly yellow paper. The shop window lit up enticingly as the nights drew in, and a sign appeared..."Join Our Christmas Club"...Remember?

Comment by: she 44 on 29th November 2009 at 14:01

yes i remember the good old days

Comment by: marie on 29th November 2009 at 14:24

what good memories no one pushing trollies into you and all the local news and gossip

Comment by: janet on 29th November 2009 at 14:34

Yes I do Irene, wonderful memories.... Pity the children of today, not quite the same thing going through Asda or Tescoe, is it?

Comment by: irene roberts nee griffiths on 29th November 2009 at 18:30

Thanks for your kind comments ladies;So many memories,... the "tick" book, the big red bacon slicer, and little lads running in shouting "'Ave yer any ice-buns, Missis?...Well slorr on um!",and running out again in fits of giggles!

Comment by: Elizabeth Rose Woodcock on 6th January 2010 at 21:25

Mam would send me for a loaf and the shop keeper would wrap it in tissue,and mam would say "ask them to put the change in a bag and twist the top" by the time I got home I had eaten all the corners off the loaf, happy days.

Comment by: linma on 5th August 2010 at 15:53

You and me Elizabeth must be from the same ilk, I too used to get a loaf from the shop which was wrapped in tissue paper and I used to eat all the corners. Memories.

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