Holidays - Clive Dann

I seem to remember hot summer holidays on the beach, building sandcastles with my father. I had a tin bucket with a painting of a ship, crabs and jellyfish all round it. I think I had to have a new one each year because the salt water rusted them out.

We used to go to Southport a few times in the summer, you could drive the car onto the beach.

The Ice cream man came round with a bicycle with the fridge on the front of it. there were no soft ices in those days.

Home Life - Clive Dann

Household goods
A fully automatic top loading washing machine arrived at home one day. Bendix by name. Our house had cellars, so a staging was erected under the kitchen floor to cope with the spinning barrel in the machine. It stopped the washer travelling along the kitchen floor when spinning out the wet clothes. Mother used a Prestige Pressure Cooker for vegetables etc, it had weights horizontally fixed on the lid. They had a habit of flying off at pressure and hitting the kitchen door.

Shopping
Mother would shop for food at John Williams a chain of Provision Merchants centred around Mid Wales and the borders. Mother would sit on a chair and the manager would dance attendance; samples of cheese, sweet biscuits, bacon etc, were offered for approval. I would be given a chocolate biscuit to eat. The bacon was sliced on a large red slicer with a shinny round blade, turned by hand; sugar was ladled into blue bags; butter sliced into greaseproof paper, and wrapped on the long Mahogany counter, all along one side of the counter, on the floor were 7lb biscuit tins with glass lids enabling the customer to see the variety available.
Mother would tender the money which was placed in a round mental container; above her head; it was sat on a wire; the cord was pulled and the money fled across the ceiling to a cashier somewhere in the distance. Change would arrive back in seconds.

Food coupons exchanged hands; they were ripped out of a buff coloured book. Part of the wartime rationing which perpetuated until the mid 50s

Entertainment - Clive Dann

Television
Televisions were only in black and white until the later years of the 50s. There was only one channel for many years; BBC, programmes started early afternoon with Children's Television. Andy Pandy, Muffin the Mule, the adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Roy Rogers, Skippy the Kangaroo and Lassie. I remember a test card featured before transmission started, there was a young girl's face in the centre. Colour and Independent television with advertisements came along in the late 50s

Toys
I had a Hornby Double O electric train set, Dinky toy scale model cars and a meccano set, these were my favourites, they were beautifully made. I had a peddle car that I rode round the garden in, it was a replica of a Wartime American Army Jeep.

Music and Pop Stars
Elvis Presley hit the scene, he was featured in films and on television. he apparently was reluctant to come to Britain
Bert Weedon published books on how to learn the guitar. he actually died only this year

Books and Comics
Enid Blyton wrote 'The Famous Five' series of which there were many. I still had the 'Noddy' books, and the 'Eagle' comic arrived every week. I was a member of the 'Eagle' club; I wore a smart enamel Eagle badge on my school blazer

Fabulous 50s memories - Clive Dann

Motor cars
Father brought a Standard Vanguard, a beetle shaped car; the first British made car to incorporate the headlights within the front wing, and the wings to be an integral part of the bodywork.

Trolley buses
Trolley buses used overhead electric cables like the tramcar principle. They seemed huge double decker's with twin at the back

Aircraft
The world first passenger jet powered aircraft, the De Havilland Comet flew trans-Atlantic flights in record time in the colours of the BOAC. It looked magnificent. Regrettably, there were some terrible air disasters involving these aircraft

Trains
The departure from steam railway engines was heralded by the introduction of diesel electric trains. father took me to a field near Lytham St Anne's to watch 2 black Locos with the numbers 10000 and 10001 on the side in white, flash past each other at enormous speed.

Sport
Roger Bannister was the first man ever to run the 4 minute mile

World events
I remember the Hydrogen Bomb, being tested on Christmas Island, and the demonstration surrounding it
The first space flight; Russia put a dog into orbit
The Suez Canal Crisis. Colonel Nassa, President of Egypt closed the Suez Canal to all shipping, causing the long journey round the Cape of Good Hope. Instead of the short cut from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.
The Korean War
I remember newspaper photographs of the Korean war between Communist North Korea and non-Communist south Korea. Britain became involved with the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces (I think)

Coronation - Clive Dann

My parents had the only television our side of the village, so 16 of us sat around a 9" television screen with a magnifying glass on the front.

As a child I sat on the floor, at an angle to the screen; consequently, everything looked very long to me

Festival of Britain - Clive Dann

1951 saw the staging of The Festival of Britain intended to Kick start the economy following World War II

The exhibition was centred mainly on the south bank of the Themes though many other venues exhibited various aspects of science, technology, manufacturing, transport etc

The south bank site featured some memorable structures including The Dome of Discovery and the Skylon, a tall slender structure rather like a television transmitter mast

The death of the King - Clive Dann

I remember arriving at school and being taken to the local Church for a service to honour the late King who died in the night

Newspaper pictures were of the new Queen leaving an Airport in South Africa where she had been on holiday with her husband Prince Philip, and arriving back on British soil as Queen Elizabeth II

Fabulous 50's Memories - Clive Dann

Earliest Memories

• I accompanied my mother, with younger sister in the pram, to the village Welfare Centre. I think this Institution was the forerunner of Health centres
• There we would obtain 'national dried milk' and a bottle of Orange juice and Cod Liver Oil. They came in medicine size bottles, the former with a blue screw lid, the later a gold lid.  

Conquest of Everest

• By a British Expedition led by Sir John Hunt was announced during coronation week,
• The summit was reached by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing

Wartime devastation

• I remember travelling to Liverpool Docks to visit my Grandparents in Dublin. We passed street after street of rubble; formerly houses and shops before the Blitz

Tramcars in Liverpool

• Electric trams operated in Liverpool; they were more prevalent than buses. They had long poles on their roofs which connected with overhead high voltage cables. There would be blue flashes of electricity as the poles crossed joining cables
• I remember my father swearing when the car wheels dropped into a tram track and he struggled to get out of them.

Memories of Wellington - Wellington library

Magaret Candlin who was born in Wellington kindly said we could use the following pictures of Wellington in the 50s on the blog

Princess Street School, Wellington Christmas Fancy dress 1954

Christ Church Sunday School

Carol service at Christ Church

Carnival in Wellington, ending up at Wellington footbal club

Park Junior School

Family and home Life - Margaret Court

People went out with rollers in with a scarf over the head

First mini I had cost £495 - was red everyone thought I was the bees knees.

When ironing trousers we put carbolic soap inside, with paper and water on teh top this would create a sharp crease.

Used to sharpen knives on teh front step on a Sunday morning

Used a bigplate to warm the bed up - we wrapped it up in a sheet

We used to take bottles back to the shop for 3p they took them out the back  - we then went and got the bottles out again and took them back to the shop again!

Childhood - Margaret Court

Toilets were outside - a plank with a hole in the middle. In the winter we had to put wellies and boots on to go to the toilet.

Fire can - tin with string with a small fire in and swung it round - if my Gran cought us with it we were in trouble, once we have finished with them we used them as stilts.

Hula hoops

Tracking game, one team put arrows on the ground and the other team had to follow the arrows until they found the first group.

We had picnics up the Wrekin

Entertainment - Margaret Court

Radio - Journey into Space

Movies - Dan Dare, Hop Along Cassidy

Radio's had two accumelators - I had a case to carry it in

Dancing, Church Socials

Flea Pit for 2p - one film and news reels - stayed until they were thrown out.

Coronation - Margaret Court

My Dad brought the TV specifically to see the coronation, we also had a tea party in horsehay.

We had souvenir mugs

Entertainment - Stallard Court

We saw the Beverley Sisters in Hull.

They used to deliver fizzy Corona bottle to your door.

Also bread – it was still warm and I used to have the crust – a bit for me and then a bit for the dog – my Mum hit the roof!



Family and Home life - Stallard Court

Carbolic was good for boils – you put it on with lint with sugar and this would draw out all the badness.

“Out of the blue comes the whitest wash – Reckitts Blue” – and it did.

We went to Llandudno in May for the Victoria Day – with all the old fashioned things.



Childhood - Stallard Court

The King died on my birthday and we were going to go out but couldn’t because everything was closed.

I remember my Dad buying us sweets every weekend as a treat and I remember my first Bounty.

We used to have competitions to see how long we could keep the hula hoop going for.

We’d go to the cinema every Saturday. If the film broke down the kids would stamp their feet.

We used to play conkers, snakes and ladders, snap and other card games, and dominoes.

We had a pram that we converted into a go-kart and my sister pushed me down the hill on Golf Links lane and I couldn’t find the brakes!

Use to love to read the Dandy, Beano, Eagle, Bunty.

I read a lot of Enid Blyton books.

Coronation - Stallard Court

My aunt and uncle came to my house to watch the coronation.

We went down to London before the coronation for the weekend and they were putting up all the seating and staging outside Buckingham Place.  Everything we wanted to see was closed. I remember what I wore to travel - I bought a red cherry Dannemac and I wore that coat for years.

We bought a big joint of beef and we had it cold with some salad so we didn’t miss a thing.

We had to go to the cinema to see the Coronation afterwards but it was in colour.

Entertainment - The Ley

We liked listening to the radio.  You had to charge the accumulators up. You’d have two – one to use and one to charge and we’d take it to the shoe shop to get it charged up.

I belonged to the South Eastern Road Club. There was a big 12 hour race 5am-5pm. There were time trials and you’d cycle about 200 miles.  Catford Cycle Club used to have a 24 hour road race starting at 5pm.

We’d go to the cinema twice a week and the films changed mid-week.

We’d go to the ABC minor cinema club and you’d go up on stage if it was your birthday and get a gift. You’d have to go every week as they were serial films and you wanted to find out what was going to happen next.

I loved to listen to Dick Barton Special Agent on the wireless – my brother didn’t move when the programme was on.

We went to Rhyl on holiday and I remember sitting in Dad’s motor bike side car.

We lived in Scotland and I can remember Mum ordered a coach and we all went to Ayr to a Butlins camp. We went into the neighbouring farmers field and picked potatoes before going home so that they didn’t spoil.

Family and Home Life - The Ley

Remember going to the cinema watching the King and I and Dad used to carry me home on his shoulders.

One person remembered working in a shop from the age of 12.

We would go hop picking in Kent from London and that was a week’s holiday for us.

I remember sweet rationing finishing on a Sunday because I was part of a cycle club and at the end of the ride we descended on a sweet shop and cleared out the shelves!

We didn’t have a fridge – you had a pantry with a cold slab.

You’d use Reckitts Blue Dye to make your clothes white.

We always used A1 powder for washing – we never used anything else.

Mum was really excited about getting her first washing machine – in fact she wouldn’t use it at first!.

We’d get saving stamps from the Post Office with

6d – Prince Charles on

3d – Princess Anne

Childhood - The Ley

We played

Hopscotch

Leapfrog

Rounders

Kick the can

Roller skates that you put over your shoes and we’d skate all over the place – I loved it.

Coronation - The Ley

We had a street party and there was only one TV in the street. All the kids were outside and the adults were all inside watching the coronation. We kids saw the repeat programme later.

All the family came in to watch the coronation – the commentary went on all day.

I remember having to draw the coronation on a slate at school – or at least what we could remember.

We were given a tin box with a Cadbury’s chocolate inside. We had a street party and had to find our names to sit down at the table and we played cricket afterwards.

I lived in Penn and we had races on the big field in the middle of the houses – I remember I decided to skip instead of running.

I can remember they brought out a little screen with a strap on that you put in front of the black and white TV to make it colour. 

Entertainment - Meadcroft

There was a lot going on in the 1950’s.

There was Carroll Levis’ Discovery show– one of the original talent shows on the radio for young people.  Sunday morning was Big Bill Campbell country and western music. Mrs Dale’s Diary.

Then there was Radio Luxembourg in the early 50’s – the only place you could get good music after 6 o’clock but you couldn’t always find the channel.

We used to go to Newport Town hall once a month but it was closed due to fire regulations.

We’d go to the Saturday Matinee at the Odeon in Bilston. There were so many children that you had to go in the back door.

I used to read the Bunty magazine, Girls Crystal, the Beano, Roy of the Rovers,  Film Fun, Woman and Women’s Own.

Family and Home life - Meadcroft

Every Monday was washing day. You wouldn’t cook, you’d have a cold meal or leftovers from Sunday or soup so you could get your washing done.

We had a big tub in the corner of the kitchen called a “cobbler” to get hot water.

I used to go to the public baths for a wash. You paid your money for a certain amount of time.

You weren’t properly dressed unless you wore gloves.

When your clothes were worn out they were made into rag rugs.

I worked as a bookbinder in Manchester – it was family concern and made Basildon Bond paper. I had to undertake 8 years of training.

Childhood - Meadcroft

We’d play hopscotch, skipping, hula hops, roller-skates, whip and top, snakes and ladders, ludo, tiddlywinks, card games, and Jacks or snobs as we called it.

We’d dance round the maypole on the 1^st May.

We had liquorice wood and you chewed on it until it was all soggy and horrible.

My Gran gave me opal Fruit sweets every week – but I got fed up with them , so I asked her not to buy anymore.

Coronation - Meadcroft

I was in the Royal Guard. We’d been practising for at least 3 months. Only 8 guards were sent for the practise spaced out with string. We had brand new uniforms for the day. It was a long day; we marched directly behind the Queens’s coach in the parade. I enjoyed going to the pub that night!

Everybody had a street party.

We had a street party in the church and I had a special dress.

We were given a dark blue glass with an insignia on it, and we had to march past the flag and salute with school.

There were thousands souvenirs – a special tins with toffees I remember having.

We watched on next doors TV – the only one in 20 houses.

Festival of Britain - Meadcroft

I didn’t go but remember seeing it on the news reels in the cinema.

I lived in Manchester and went to London on a day trip with friends to the Festival – we had a nice trip.

Memories of Wellington - Wellington Library

In the late 50’s I went to Crudgington School and we had a man who had a guitar called Mr Clay. Our main teacher was Mrs Hindorf. I lived down Crudgington Green and there was a railway station called Crudgington. Sometimes we came to Wellington on the train as a treat. When I was 8 I went to Longden School which isn’t there any more. Ever since then I’ve lived in and around Wellington.

We’d go to dances at the Majestic on a Saturday night.

I worked at Aston’s in Wellington from 1953-1958. This was big furniture shop at the top of New Street and it was the only one of its kind in the town. It’s gone now. They also had a large warehouse in the High Street.

I used to go to the Methodist Youth Club at Ketley Bank. I also took part in the New Street Youth Club and went to the Eisteddfod and won first and second prize in design.

Photo from Wellington in the 1950’s . Park Street Post Office  who sold sweets and confectionaries. My wife lived opposite at Perry’s Cycles and she remembers having ‘Sella’ Cough Sweets as they were not on war time rationing. She remembers going in an getting a quarter of cough sweets which were pink and chewy in the middle and she almost became “addicted” to them by the age of 5!

This photo is from the 1950’s and was my late father-in-law’s shop, prior to that it was his father’s Samuel Perry from the 1890’s. I am sure half the population of the area will remember Bill Perry who kept the shop open six and a half day’s a week.

Courtesy of Ross Vickers.

We lived in the Police House up Wrekin Road. It was a new house and because they’d mixed the mortar in the front garden we were able to grow wonderful pinks in two thick rows. My daughter was about 3 at the Coronation and I can remember a friend offering to take her down to the Coronation celebrations in town. When she came back she was so full of what she’d seen – “ You should have seen the decorations for the Coronation Mummy”. My first washing machine was a Hoover twin tub and you had to have it up close to the sink so that the water didn’t spray everywhere from the rubber hose and it lasted 15 years.

My 2 eldest went to Orelton School and remember Miss Pye the head teacher writing us a lovely letter when she left.

Entertainment - Wellington Library

During the 1950’s a number of orchestras and Opera Companies went on tour which would visit towns close to us like Luton and Watford for example. I usually managed to get a boyfriend to take me there (although they may not have been as keen as I was!) I loved all the popular dance music and used to collect the lyrics.

I used to like reading the Beano, Dandy, Busterm Knock Out comics. I’d go to the library and read the William books,  Biggles, Dr Doolittle and  you could keep them for 2 weeks. Then I read things like Ethel M dell, Agatha Christie  Barbara Cartland and Forever Amber which was a bit risqué! You could also pay a subscription and go to the Boots library.

We used to go to the pictures once at week in London. They were all in black and white. You could spend ages in there on one ticket as there was the main film B film, an interval followed by music played on the organ and the newsreel – one of the main ways of keeping yourself up-to-date with the current news. They’d come round selling chocolate and because lots of people smoked you’d end up watching the screen through a haze of smoke!

Family and Home Life - Wellington Library

I lived in Liverpool and I left school in 1952 going to work for Liverpool Public Transport for 2 years after which I went to do my National Service. I started in Portsmouth and then went to Deepcut in Surrey and then stayed for 3 years in Didcot, Oxforshire. We lived in temporary accommodation that had been built in 1915 with 24 to a room and the only heating was a potbellied boiler in the middle of the room – it was freezing! Then I went to Germany in the ammunition depot and spent a few years there and moved to Verden. In 1959 I went to Aiden and then Bahrain. We earned 28 shillings a week.

I worked as a secretary and earned £2.45 a week.

I remember we had to take our ration book on honeymoon with us. We lived in a flat first and it cost us what would be £1.50 a week

Coronation - Wellington Library

I  went to London for the Coronation, it was cold and wet. We parked near Hyde par and we were made to stand from half six in the morning until the evening.

Festival of Britain - Wellington library

I lived in Harpenden, Herts and went twice to the Festival, once by train and once by car with 3 friends. There was a pleasure garden and fair at Battersea Park full of rides and a Tree Walk. We went by tram and remember going to see the Glascow and Orpheus choir on their last performance.

We went to the Festival of Britain which was on the South bank and we went by tram. I enjoyed the Dome of Discovery which had all the latest inventions; and the Skylon which looked great lit up at night which you could see for miles around. We went to the funfair in Battersea and you could go on the Emett railway which had yellow and green seats.

Entertainment - Frizes Leasowes 18/5/12

We’d go to the cinema in Doncaster. I remember half way through they’d come round and sprayed because of the smell!

There used to be serial films – you had to go the next week to see the next instalments - usually westerns.

Family and Home Life - frizes Leasowes 18/5/12

I remember my first sliced bread – it was wonderful.

We had green pea powdered soup.

My Grandmother used to make   ginger beer in stone bottles.

Mostly the shops weren’t open on Sundays.  If you bought any tinned goods they charged you an extra penny.

There was usually half day closing in the week.

We had a copper boiler for washing the clothes.

We used sunlight soap and a board and mangle.

I remember my Mum drying the clothes in front of the fire and they caught alight!

As a married couple with lived with my Mum and dad and we had a small tv on the sideboard.

We made some of our own clothes.

You had to still save your clothing coupons.

Childhood - Frizes Leasowes 18/5/12

When sweets came off rationing I had buttered brazils.

Someone worked at the Bassetts factory and used to bring home the misshapen jelly babies- they were melted down into jelly. At the Coronation street party we had loads of jelly!

We played donkey on the wall, five stones, break the camel’s back, hopscotch, skipping and we’d use the hula hop to skip with too.

Coronation - Frizes Leasowes 18/5/12

We had a party at school and I went dressed in an Irish costume. Others went in Welsh, Scottish and English costume.

Dad decorated the garden in red, white and blue.

We went to London afterwards to see all the decorations, the flags and things and where the important people had sat on the seats.

Everyone had street parties; everyone was friendly and mucked in. You left your doors open and you’d have a key on some string and you’d pull it through the letterbox to unlock the door. You never locked your back door.

I was 6 years old and went to Harts Hill School in Oakengates. Everyone had a cup  made of blue glass.

I had a long silver box with chocolates in it given to me in Sheffield where I was living.

Festival of Britain - Frizes Leasowe 18/5/12

We got married the year before the festival and because we couldn’t afford a honeymoon, we saved up and went to the Festival of Britain the following year,

Lots of people couldn’t afford to go to the Festival.

They were hard times – you made your own entertainment, especially on the piano. We’d sing “Lily of Laguna”, and my Gran would give me halfpenny to sing it.  

Toys & Games - Lawndale

We made our own fun

Played hopscotch, top and whip, skipping. A skipping rhyme was Red stockings, blue garters, shoes tied up with silver, red rosette uopn ny breast and a guinea ring on my finger.

Played ball and double ball against a wall.

As soon as you were dressed you went out.

Coronation - Lawndale

We all went to a neighbours to watch the coronation

I was on my father's shoulders and saw the coach, we went to London by bus because my dada was a conductor and could travel for free.

I was in the army based at Catterick in North Yorkshire and I was in the parade in London for the coronation, but I had to have the front seat on the bus because I was travel sick.

I went to a street party in Whitmore Reans in Wolverhampton - there was bunting and long tables with food

One lady's sister was the coronation Queen in Dawley, she had a crown and a cloak

Memories of the Festival of Britain - Lawndale

I think my dad to me when I was living in London.

We queued in the rain to get a commemorative coin.

One lady from Merseyside went and stayed in a top notch hotel.

Wellington in the 50s - Walton Court

Remembers shops in wellington – Macfisheries, sold fish

Little Espley by Methodist chapel

Big Espley – butchers

They sold cooked meats, sausages, bacon used to queue and they let 6 in at a time

By Chad Valley = Frosts the bakers Chinese laundry further on next to Austin’s paper shop

Tilsley’ general store for groceries 

Half way up High street = Overy the butchers. Abattoir behind – many a time a cow would escape down the street

Lena the sick woman – sold kindling for the fire

Co-op – central ordering and paying – went up a chute

Toy's & Games - Walton Court

One lady remembered playing marbles – called Marley in the Black Country

They played rounder’s on the green

Toys & Games - Turnpike Court

Games

·         Hopscotch

·         Marbles

·         Wooden tops

·         Hula hoops

·         Snakes and ladders

·         Skipping ropes

·         Ludo

·         Draughts

·         Tiddly winks

·          Chess

·         Beetle

·         Kick the can

·         Bun the barrow – jumping on people’s back

·         Hide and seek

We were never in – climbing trees, swings & roundabouts

Used pram wheels for go karts

Beetle – draw the beetle when you threw a certain number on the dice

Used Knitting Nancy’s to make place mats and tea cosies 

Toys & Games - Lowe Court

Games

• Hopscotch
• French Cricket
• Marble
• Top & Whip

Toy & Games - High Mount

·         Hopscotch

·         Leap frog

·         Top & Whip

·         Skipping

o   All in this together girls, never mind the weather girls, when I call your birthday please jump out.

·         Marbles

·         Five Jack

·         Go karts made out of pram wheels and wood

·         Played football with a pig’s bladder full of water

Holiday's - Walton Court

Hop picking – children were taken along with their parents

Holiday's - Turnpike Court

Some people went hop picking in Kent for a holiday while others went fruit picking in Worcester they picked Plums, damsons and apples

One person visited relatives in Wales

One person went to Weymouth every year and stayed in a caravan the owner of Little Sea campsite you had to know to be able to get a caravan there, especially if you wanted a new caravan. There was also a social club there at night there were two rooms one for adults the other for children

Fashion - Turnpike Court

Girls wore short skirts – they thought long skirts looked Victorian

Entertainment - Walton Court

Had to take the accumulator to be charged otherwise you had no radio

First TVs was radio rentals

One lady used to sit with her son and listen to Listen With Mother

TV

·         Woodentops

·         Bill and Ben

·         Muffin the Mule

TV was only on at certain times, then was the potters wheel

Pop Music

·         Billy Fury was my idol

·         Lonnie Donningan

·         Tommy Steele

·         Skittle Groups

·         Helen Shapino

·         Johnny Rae

·         Cliff Richard

·         Jimmy Young

·         Shim Whitman

I worked as an usherette at the cinema in the Town Hall Wellington and my husband was the projectionist

Entertainment - Turnpike Court

TV

·         Spotty dog

·         Roy Rogers

·         Bill and Ben

·         Watch with mother

·         Muffin the mule

All the bands were on the radio at lunch times

Music

·         Guy Mitchell

·         Mitch Miller

·         Hughie Green

Entertainment - Lowe Court

TV

·         Doctor Kildare

·         Muffin the Mule

·         Mr Pastry – real man who did silly stuff

·         Sooty & Sweep

·         Andy Pandy

·         Flowerpot Men

·         Wooden Tops

·         Champion the Wonder horse

·         Billy Bunter

First TV was 9” – in a cabinet

The signal would be lost if you got too near.

Cinema

·         Laurel & Hardy

·         Man in the White Suit

One man went to the pictures only for a special treat because it was four miles away.

One lady remembered the cinema’s in Wellington

·         Clifton

·         Town Hall

·         Grant Theatre

Childhood - Walton Court

Came over to England in 1953. Told at customs to go to Town hall and get ration book

Had German bomb on show in Manchester

Sweets

·        Gobstoppers

·        Rhubarb and Custard

·        Pear Drops

·        Toffee apples, wrapped in brown paper

One person worked in a sweet shop, weighed out penny.

Could buy 4 sweets for a penny. All sweets were weighed out.