The past is a different country. They do things differently there.

[Stumped!]

Did sweets come off ration for a short time in the late 40's?
I'm sure that I can recall becoming extremely ill from eating too many .
We left England just before Christmas, 1949 for a few years, so there must have been some reason for them being available.
Peter

[LizzieW]

I remember they did come off ration but because so many people rushed to buy them, they were put back on ration as they couldn't cope.  I think they eventually came back off in the mid 1950s.

Liz

[ankerdine]

IPA.........

Wasn't it Miss Robbins Sweetshop on the Coleshill Road or was that another shop? I too was born in a nursing home in Acocks Green, The Ivanhoe I think.

Does anyone remember Tripe being on sale? Not sure if I liked it or not. Were there specialist shops which sold it. Pork butchers or something like that?

[ozlady]

The Co-Op bread and milk were "paid" by using "checks" that were bought at the local Co-OP store. There were different colours and shapes for the different kinds of bread and I think milk as well. The milk bottles had different coloured foil tops. Jersey milk was gold. As kids we used the checks as money when we played shops.
  The blue tits always attacked the foil milktops in winter. Mum used to leave cups out for the milkman to put over the tops of the bottles.
   I still have my ration book!

[Gadget]

Did you have those Co-op divi stamps and a number - ours was 836.

I still remember my Dad sticking the little slips on a big sticky sheet every quarter. He was pretty fast at adding them up and I think he taught me to add that way when I was about 3 or 4.

I found my 'Infant Welfare Clinic'Card over the weekend - cor what a weight I was 

[ozlady]

Yeah, Divi stamps! What about the sixpenny saving stamps we used to buy at school? They had a piccie of a very curly haired Princess Anne? Charles was on the half-a-crown stamps I think.
   Coal was delivered by the ton and just dumped on the pavement outside the house. Many times Dad came home from work in the pit dog-tired only to have to shift a load of coal into the coalhouse!

[Gadget]

Snap 

Sorting the slag from the decent stuff and then the big bits from the little bits!

[LizzieW]

Thank goodness for gas fired central heating.


Liz

[chinakay]

OH's mam used to buy tripe at the local butcher. Also udder, brains and the rest of the beast carved up into bits.

I can't imagine even looking at some of those bits

Cheers,
C hina