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Anyone else come across, all those years back, liquorice root?

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The shop across the road from Brews (Brewsters??) in Poulton was called Collicks. They sold sweets as well as certain groceries. You could even go in and buy loose cigarettes, if I remember rightly. There was another sweet shop just before Brews called Nancy & Bills. But that was quite a long time ago.

Think the sweet tobacco you describe was called something like 'Spanish Gold'.

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...if by liquorice root you mean the "real" twiggy sticks, you can still actually get them in places like health food stores.

Don't think I'd have bothered eating them though if I'd ever realized they were healthy...

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precisely the twigs..they were sold as sweets during those days.

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Originally Posted by Erainn
Anyone else come across, all those years back, liquorice root?


We used to call it 'sticky lice'!!! (Yukkk)

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Originally Posted by geekus
The shop across the road from Brews (Brewsters??) in Poulton was called Collicks.


Collicks - how appropriate!!! (I'm still thinking about my diarrhoea!! smile )

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hahah great name, I recall after the first rush of flavour, all you had left was a fibrous mass, sure not high up there in the swap a sweet trade in school smile

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...on that basis, maybe I should have eaten the lolly-stick whenever I had a Fab.

Didn't know they were supplied as added roughage!

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Anyone remember the penny bubblies?! they used to be big an thick an round an all wrapped separate, hard to chew at first but they lasted for ages an the flavour was lovely! got to blow some big bubbles with them too! whistle

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Were they pink, round gum?

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One of my favorite buys used to a tin of Top Deck shandy and a packet of Savoury Vinegar crisps, the bigger shops never seemed to sell either.
Come to think of it i've not seen them on sale for years but then i don't think i've realy looked !.

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I know the chewy you mean and, yes, they were quite a gob full.

Kinda prefered Bazooka Joes though. I always liked the little comic that came inside the wrapper, even if the jokes were always garbage.

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Originally Posted by Christo
Used to love the little shop by my nan's - at the junction of Ingleby Road/New Ferry Road in New Ferry - Mrs Burnhams. Amazing rainbow coloured sherbert in jars! (Mrs Burnham herself amazed me - didn't matter how much she aged, she always looked the same, with her black beehive!) smile

We used to go in there! we called it "nicco-nells" coz she was always smokin! an she used to leave all boxes of stuff in the window an theyd all fade in the sun! yumyum

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Top Deck! Now there's a memory.

I liked the fact that after the sweet shops had all closed, you could still nip down the chippy and get a can of Top Deck (or Tizer)as well as a packet of crisps.

Anyone remember 'Ringos'???

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