General Chat

Errol, I don,t expect its anything like it used to be,have got lots of relations there,but have,nt been there for a few years. got some good memories though from when it was just WBC. Electric Omnibusses etc and some good dance halls,pubs etc. Last I saw of it , its all concreted over. :-(

Mersey, Set up a Stll on Here, no way, You,re to late , :-DI,ve already Flogged off The Mersey Tunnel and the Airport is next. :-D

Merls im going through the tunnel tomorrow :-D :-D and its going up in April AGAIN :-|

Sharron I have tried that but I have a new trick up my sleeve - holding my breath - that should do the trick.

Merlin it is a total concrete jungle although I did have a good pint.

Sorry got to earn an extra few bob to pay the Gas and Electric Bills.Errol If it was Banks Special Brew (Old Ale) then it was.

Just help yourself to a few when you are out with her. That might embarrass her into buying you some.

Merls if you let me go through the toll for free I will give you a slab of Parkin and a French Fancy :-D :-D ;-)

oh oh can I have some Parkin please please

Merlin it was Pedigree
Sharron I hope you are not encouraging me to 'alf inch some!

Sometimes it's the only way Errol.

There is an "Old fashioned sweet shop" at a local garden centre, a visit there will have your memories flooding back. Bulls eyes, Gob stoppers, Brandy balls, Pear drops ,aniseed balls, liquorice comfits (my favourite) coconut ice et al. I went some weeks ago and brought my friend, originally form Scotland some "Tablet" she was so delighted. OH loved the Cinder toffee. They are all in the old fashioned sweet jars displayed just as they used to be. I was chatting to the two shop assistants who said the nicest part of their job was reminiscing the older customers.

I agree that Wagon Wheels do seem to be smaller, I remember they seemed to be huge to me, my boy cousins always hung aruound me when we had them as they knew they would finish mine off for me. Also Dandilion & Burdock does not taste the same to me.

When I was little Fred told me that liquorice comfits were called rats turds and that is what they will always be to me.

Paula+ gone off Dandelion & Burdock, :-D Prefer Malt now,more expensive but dammed good for colds and flue. :-D

Errol me thinks you have a very sweet tooth ;-)

:-D :-D @ Sharron rats turds I call em torpedoes :-D

Sharron I think I prefer torpedoes to turds :-D

Merlin expensive way to clean your flue :-S :-S

Mersey - I don't as a rule but sometimes I just fancy something like that and I do love a bit of Parkin

I used to love Wagon Wheels, washed down with a (shared) bottle of Tizer :-D

As for sweeties, my faves were Parma Violets, Sweet Peanuts and sherbet dips.

Ooh, and Love-hearts!

Pedigree is a Banks beer. Has been for sometime. Daughter used to work for Mansfield Brewery, Banks took that over as well and she had to go to Marsden's in Burton sometimes for meetings.

She left there almost 8 years ago and became a civil engineer, out in all weathers. The office job was too boring!!!!!!!!!!! :-S :-)

Who liked Dolly Mixtures?

I hated them, thought they smelled horrible (these days I'd say like a bad perfume).

If my grannies thought I'd been "a good girl" I got 2oz of dolly mixtures. I politely said thankyou....... and put them away. Can't remember what I did with them (my brother didn't eat them cos he didn't like them either)

:-D

sherbet dabs, Pontefract cakes, and those sweets shaped like peanuts with chopped peanuts inside - aniseed balls were nice too

Like I said AnnC - they were called sweet peanuts :-D