Does anyone remember those lovely ice creams they used to sell in Woolies in the summer months. They were round, pink and white and wrapped in a piece of cardboard which the assistant tore off and stuck the ice cream in a cone.
Remember the hot peanuts as well!!
Lorna

Mr Whippy ice cream used to save my money to afford a chocolate nut sundae. Duncan's milk chocolate candies, best filling pullers around. Non food items Toddilocks a kind of setting lotion green with a lovely smell and a ridged glass bottle used to get it put on to make my hair curly when I was a kid
Ahh memories Anne

What about
Vosene............ I can still smell it now!
Pears soap........ I always wanted to be the pears girl.
Butter Osbourne Biscuits......... My Nan used to put butter on one and put two together, Yummmmmm.
& Sweet Tobacco......... With a ship on the front, it was in a block shape, I can remember getting a thru'penny bit from Grandad to go to the shop.
Nicky

The smell of those peanuts roasting really made my mouth water! Also the smell of Huntly and Palmers biscuit factory at Reading and the brewery at Marlow! Those were the days!

John

........ Cow & Gate toffee in the waxed paper packets with the highland cow. Teddy bears stuffed with real sawdust that rotted when you played 'doctors & nurses' and gave them 'medicine'. Enid Blyton read by torch under the bedclothes. And real bedclothes - sheets (neatly split & turned so that the worn bit in the middle was put to the edge), blankets, bolster and a spread. The smell of paraffin & peat. Swingboats & Yella Man. Nets to catch sticklybacks in the local shop. The test picture with the little girl & kitten on the old B&W TV set that took 10 minutes to warm up. Radio Caroline crackling through a single ear plug ...........

I didn't know Cow and Gate made toffee.....Maybe it was Callard and Bowser?????or Barker and Dobson????

Kia, haven't seen it in decades but it was Cow & Gate - great stuff in thin slabs with bare indentations for breaking into squares (it never did break in squares :-)). Better extractor of loose baby teeth than any dentist :-)

Sharon they were called halfpenny squares and were made by cleeves . mackintosh made the highland fling.
Do you remember the six dandys for a penny . Does anyone remember soaking licorice. It was a penny a stick and you put it in a lemonade bottle and when it was melting you shook it and sucked the froth up .
Also for threepence there was peggys leg , lasted for ever and gobstoppers , I would give anything for a taste of them again. Mari

Who remebers the Cottage loaf, still warm from the bakers? You could seperate the top from the bottom, and pull out the lovely warm bit in the middle>>>>>yummy

Marie, course you're right, it was Mackintosh toffee! Where on earth did I get Cow & Gate from?

Sorry Kia, evidently a case off too many memories contained in well malted brain cells :-)

Macintoshs did it, they just went out and did it, oh Macintoshs did it with "WEEKEND"..Remember that one sis?

We used to melt Highland Toffee bars with Marshmallows with Rice Krispies to make crispy cake. Yum, yum. They still sell Highland Toffee here. They're in waxed paper with a cow on the front.
Dot

Oh sis, there is nothing as comforting as "real" bedclothes. Crisp sheets, blankets, and a feather eiderdown so the covers felt really heavy, but it was soooooo warm and snuggly when you were not well and in the winter time.

....and Radio Luxembourg that kept fading right in the middle of your favourite song :(

I was sea fishing off Folkestone some many years ago with one of the directors of Radio Caroline. It was a blustery day and we were in an open launch. I remember the waves were breaking over the gunwales as we rounded the point into the harbour. I was just a little perturbed when later that week I read in the paper that the director had been lost in a heavy sea in the very same launch whilst taking supplies out to Radio Caroline! Suddenly sea fishing in open launches did not seem quite such a good idea!

John

Yes!!!! I remember sweet tobacco, and chewing nuts, and ( cant remember what they were called) sweets that looked like sticks, and you chewed them and they tasted sort of like licquorice

You can't make an apple pie bed with a duvet :) :)
Lorna

Oh yes Lorna, I remember those ices, and do you remember when Neopolitan icecream was pink white and green,( almond) and not chocolate?

Yes - pink white and green. I think it was Eldorado.
Saturday morning cinema, we used to cheer the cowboys and boo the Indians. It was sixpence to get in, and threepence for an ice lolly. That left me threepence to buy my mum a little posy of flowers from the gypsies on the way home.
Lorna

I remember Barley Sugar sticks and also toffee sticks with chocolate inside which looked the same as the Barley Sugar ones. What about Frys 5 Boys chocolate?

I remember "proper" ice cream being sold from a sort of market stall (refrigerated) and hot sarspirella (sp) on dark cold evenings being sold in local markets with hot chestnuts.