Are there any good sweet shops around here?
I am trying to find a shop which sells penny sweets (do they still exist?). The cheapest sweets I can find are for 5p and they are quite large - not like flying saucers, and the cola bottles are 10p and are huge.
My son's pocket money isn't managing to buy anything interesting...
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She didn't even know about half pennies, let alone half penny sweets.
I know it's not local, but try <a href="http://www.handycandy.co.uk/" target="_blank">Handy Candy</a> you could get a decent amount for a couple of quid, and then let you son have a bit of variety.
Oh, and there was also rationing, for sweets, amongst other things, for several years after the war. You handed over your ration book with your money, and the shopkeeper would cut out a coupon. Perhaps Busby can tell us how it was in the war itself.
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/
My nephew buys things once a fortnight from there and fleeces his buddies at school by selling them on, as they don't have a local sweetshop either!
I miss Fry's Five Centres and Cabana bars
but I never actually got the hard cash to spend how I liked, as my father used to run his sweet shop in a little village in Leicester.
I could take whatever I wanted from the shop, then the price of the sweets was taken off my one pound weekly 'pocket money'.
And no - I couldn't roll over any remaining money, or save up the coins to buy Star Wars figures.
Nice one dad.
However, you could buy 3 mojos or 3 cola bottles for 1p and 2 blackjacks or 2 fruit salads for 1p, so I could make a little go a long way. Plus, if I'd been naughty and didn't get my pocket money (often), I'd just force my kid sister to share hers with me.
My mum's freind used to come 'round once a week too and give me a very misjudged Fry's Turkish Delight. Bleugh. I was about 6! What I really wanted was a Texan bar