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Cadburys Bar Six, for 6d. Made at the Moreton factory in the 1960's. They were rather like a KitKat, but the six 'bars' went the opposite way to KitKat's 'fingers'.

Staff could buy the mis-shapes in a plain brown wrapped pack of 12 for 2/6d. The mis-shapes tended to have too much chocolate covering or filling to pass quality controll.

spearmint mojos 2 for a penny

This thread tickles me because I own a sweet shop and we still have a lot of the ones you are remembering - many in jars that are sold in 100gs yet we still call them quarters.

I remember Jacks opposite Cole Street School (my primary). You could get a glass or plastic cup of ginger beer for 2d if my memory serves me correctly.

I used to get sweets from Mrs. Bunces on Greenway Road/Derby Road and there was a shop at the top of Fountain Street that had a round silver tray of penny sweets that they would bring out on a request that we wanted to see the Penny Tray. As someone else mentioned Cadbury did small bars of chocolate for 1d or 2d.

My favourites were 4 Walkers toffees for 1d or 2 black jacks and 2 fruit salads for 1d.

Does anyone remember the solid squares in orange or raspberry that you used to dissolve in water to make a drink? Weren't they a form of Creamola Foam? We had a new version of Creamola Foam in the shop before Christmas but no one could remember the solid squares.

anybody remember the hedgehog flavoured crisps?how did people come up with these ideas?

Creamola Foam. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Yummy !

Old Mrs Gorringe's on Price Street, with Jones's another sweet shop opposite. Mrs Gorringe had one good eye, the other being covered by a plaster. Jones's sold out to someone else but I can't remember who. Used to buy a bag of sherbert, or there were penny toffees. Sherbert Lemons came out, which were a bit of a revelation at the time. Sticks of wooden liquorice, sherbert dabs, home made toffee apples, barley sugar twists, cough drops, bullseyes, liquorice allsorts. There wasn't much we could actually get, sugar rationing after the war kept sweets to a minimum as far as I can remember. No obesity for kids or attention deficite sydrome then , you was either fat or thick.

Remember them well along with Berts barley sugar and sherbert dabs.

Love Hearts...how many generations have they been about for?

Has cinder toffee been mentioned yet? Wrecked our teeth and I think it's still around.

The only fat kids in my school in the '50s (Riverside in Seacombe) had dads who were either a docker, butcher or chipshop proprietor.

Swizzles and flying saucers.
Does anyone remember 'duck,new potatoes and peas'? Yes, they were sweets!

My great grand parents ran a sweet shop in Grange Rd [ No 164 ] in the 1890s - named Cartlidge - - Any photo,s PLEASE

Yes granny I remember all of the sweets you mentioned I liked flying saucers but on tasting them now there foul, how our taste buds change.Our sweet shops in Oxton rd Birkenead were Peberdys and Mays and on the way to Cole st school there was the corner shop on Henthorne st, next was Jacks opposite the school yard. I used to like Everybodys mix they were a mix of boiled sweets .black jacks and cough candy twists.Also my mum would get me some cheese straws from Reeces these were my favorite and they still taste the same today as they did then, when I was five back in 1963.

Happy days i used to be the paperboy at mays shop in the 80s and then move up oxton road to Heycrofts which was oppiste Alec green bike shop.Remeber Mrs May giving us sweets for free.She look after her Paperboys.

Also Valli i got two box of sweet from my works as i was leaving

I remember the sweet shop opposite cole st school being called the Park Mecca. We used to go there on the way home from the Yozzers or Mr Mathers academy for young gentlemen as we used to call it.

Yes it was the Park Mecca but we always called it Jacks, Maybe because it was easier for me to say as I was only a tot when I first went there.Happy days, I loved my childhood growing up down town. Birkenhead lost a lot of its character when they knocked down all the little streets, but memories are precious.