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« on: November 15, 2007, 08:47:39 PM »
Loved the penny tray

what could you get with a penny these days
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« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2007, 08:48:31 PM »
Nothing at all, I loved going to the little corner shop and getting penny sweets
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« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2007, 08:51:09 PM »
so did i used to love the liquorice pipes but they were 2p  Smiley


and the chocolate logs
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« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2007, 08:51:36 PM »
I used to ask if they had any 2p penny sweets................................. gif

The newsagent told me to leave........esspecialy when i asked if i could pay with the credit card............................ gif
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« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2007, 08:53:25 PM »
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I used to love the white mice, and flying saucers
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« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2007, 08:55:13 PM »
My parents owned a sweet shop in Birkdale when I was a teenager and I used to love our penny sweet tray.....the chocolate mice and shrimps were my favourite gif

we also had rows and rows of weigh out sweets to buy by the quarter ....everything from rainbow sherbet to pontefract cakes gif
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« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2007, 08:57:33 PM »
you don't see many shops like that now apart from the one on Coronation Walk

then again when yu think back to being kids they weren't very hygienic were they all those grubby hands handling the goods  gif
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« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2007, 08:59:23 PM »
There is a stall in Wigan market hall that does the sweets in a jar, I used to love the strawberry bonbons and ginger nuts (no rude comments)  gif gif gif gif
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« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2007, 09:00:41 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2007, 09:03:23 PM »
I had a bag of pic and mix from wollys today................ gif

I was going to take a pic of it....but they strangly dissapeared vey quickly............................ gif
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« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2007, 11:01:52 PM »
I love going to woolies getting the sweets, have a bit of everything, always get a shock when I get to the till  gif gif

The sweet shop in Ainsdale Village, the one by the italian restaurant, does quarter sweets - I got some strawberry bon bons and cinder toffee on Saturday  gif
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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2007, 11:34:14 PM »
aww 1p ..I loved fruit salads  gif

I like the 2p pusher trays  gif
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« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2007, 07:23:40 PM »
does anybody remember these?
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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2007, 07:35:56 PM »
I loved these
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« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2007, 07:51:37 PM »
oh i loved those blue nosey

and those standish girl  gif
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