Just by reading these posts I can tell the age of most of you,am I right that most of you are in your  early forties (me 44 years young).Before school I always used to get a quarter of something toffee bonbons were my favourite and eat them sneakily with my desk lid up so the teacher didn't spot me, or the sweets would be confiscated lol.
Bring back lord toffingham lollies yum yum.

>most of you are in your  early forties

I wish! :-D

At least you can still remember 'proper' desks with lids.

> <SPAN class=htt>In Response to</SPAN> Freds Mum I remember when penny sweets were a penny :-) Now you part with 5p just for one sweet!!!!!

Me too!!!

I remeber going to the shops with my younger sister and we had about 20p each and our little paper bags would be filled to the top with 20 penny sweets!!

I remember working in a sweet shop about 25 yrs ago and when it was 4 oclock all the kids would come in and want penny sweets and I was the only one with enough patience to stand there and fill the bags up...very.... slowly... then they'd spend about 5 minutes changing their minds. Also when mums and grannies came in and had to have bags that contained exactly the same (so no fighting!) and definitely NO BUBBLE GUM!!

Dunno if anyone has mentioned Mojos....2 for a penny..they were nice.
I saw someone had mentioned space dust...I loved that stuff.

This isnt a sweet but I remember cheese and Onion Ringo crisps(i lived on crisp sandwiches for ever lol) and also Pickled Onion Tudor Crisps too.

Speaking of crisps but not strictly during my childhood but while at university one of the bars sold Hedgehog flavoured crisps which were very nice, never seen them since (I assume they tasted of Hedgehog but as I've never had it I couldn't be sure).  The only crisps I remember from my childhood were plain with the little salt bag and salt and vinegar.