Par1s Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 It looks brill just a shame they did,nt keep it as a sweet factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milted Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 To plain Talker, your comments about Long Henry St got me thinking I used to deliver papers for the newsagent at Duke St end Bates was his name A little shop window house 2bob a week,including Sundays By gum we lived like kings in them days (I don't think) but just the same happy days 1936 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Hillsborough people "of a certain age" are lucky. On their way to school they would savour the delicious smell wafting along Middlewood Road from Simpkin's sweet factory nearby. Fast forward 70 years and the very same smell sweetens the air as they emerge from Morrisons or Home Bargains... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 To plain Talker, your comments about Long Henry St got me thinking I used to deliver papers for the newsagent at Duke St end Bates was his name A little shop window house 2bob a week,including Sundays By gum we lived like kings in them days (I don't think) but just the same happy days 1936 Yes, but as my father always reminds me, about when he was a kid; a penny got you the "pick of the sweet shop window". even as a child growing up in the 60s, i remember being given a tanner (6d- 2 1/2 new pence for the post-decimalised amongst us) by various aunts/ uncles and feeling like I'd been given the world! Given half a crown, and, by gum, you were JD Rockefeller! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haighybaby Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Hi, My grandad lived in the flats opposite with the war memorial outside. We used to call in the sweet shop on the way to town and on visits to grandad Billy's. Sweet memories! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnifferDog Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 I remember it, and I remember my dad stopping off one day while we were driving past and us going in ....... hmm heaven. Was it called Dixons or Dobsons or something like that ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrinderBloke Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 I think it was Dixons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnifferDog Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 I still have fond memories of it now when I drive past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnifferDog Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 my mother dearest has just told me it was Dixons, and they had a stall in the Sheaf Market selling loose sweets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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