Sweetie Shops
 

When I was a lad, people in shops had names generally those written above the door.
With thrupence to spend (1.5p) Mr MacGee would wait calmly until I decided. My cash would buy 12 Fruit Salads or Black Jacks or a packet of Golden Wonder crisps
(two flavours only) or The Beano.
Asda is just not the same.

Re: Sweetie Shops
 

dont remember thrupence (bit before my time i think) but i do remember proper sweet shops....the kind with sweets in jars, and you buy a certain weight

Re: Sweetie Shops
 

Maybe not but sweeties are not the same either! - I only know of one "true" (doesn't sell papers, lottery tickets, fags, beer, or rent videos!) sweet shop round where I live and thats 5 miles away.

Re: Sweetie Shops
 

What about J. Sainsburys or Wm Morrisons? Do they sound better? :)

Re: Sweetie Shops
 

Erm - my parents used to own a sweetshop when I was aged between 5 and 10!! I had a happy childhood! ;)

Re: Sweetie Shops
 

:D oh yeah.. gladys' sweet shop, round the corner from my parents first house.. 15p a quarter for the sweets.. packet of rolo's for 10p curly wurly 5p... etc etc.. jack russell running around the shop licking you if you went near him... that was the first place we went when we were allowed to cross the road :D those were the days *sigh*

Re: Sweetie Shops
 

Your purchase came in a white paper cone bag , the top twisted, so you could carry your sweeties home.
This method prevented you have to share with some looser who did not have thrupence.

Re: Sweetie Shops
 

Ah, but do you go back to the days of sweet rationing?

Re: Sweetie Shops
 

Eeeee, them were the days...
Nipping down to "Joneses corner" & spending Sixpence... (I once spent a thruppence too).

Although my favorite was a coconut tobacco stuff that came in a red wax packet with a picture of a ship on (cannot remember its name), never seen it since..

Then there was "Tremains" opposite it, a bit too expensive for me though.

Eeeee, when I was a lad....