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Wasn't there a liquorice factory (or flavourings company) at the bottom of Gorsey Lane, Wallasey?
There was certainly always a strong smell of liquorice around that area.
Mmmmmm.......
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Your round I believe 
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It was a food additives company. I always thought it smelled of sherbert and love hearts. ;-)
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...I ain't round. Just a bit chunky.
Probably all those nuts & crisps!
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Maybe the smell varied from day to day, depending upon which additives they were working on?
I only remember the liquorice.
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pineapple chunks, now there's a prince of boiled sweets
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You'll have to start a whole new thread on favourite sweets, Erainn. You haven't started a new subject for at least an hour now!
Pineapple chunks ain't bad it's true, but give me a Sherbert Strawberry any day! And just to get back to the subject of nuts, didn't the shops used to sell sweets which looked like monkey nuts, but had chocolate in the centre??
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What a sweet idea! Can't have you getting withdrawal symptoms now can we!
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ps used to sell sweets which looked like monkey nuts, but had chocolate in the centre?? i remember something similiar but had tiny bits of peanut in the middle?
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I remember those 'sweet peanuts' a bit like cracknel.
There was a toy factory by the four bridges on Birkenhead Road, Wallasey, next to where the water bed place is now, called Berwick Toys, I think. It was in the early eighties. I remember kids in school bringing reject toys from Berwick's bins in and having them confiscated because they were mainly of the missile firing type.
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star yachts was on marion street it was owned by the denny family. we lived facing in one of their houses.
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If my old memory serves, I think it was Don's Potato Chrisps.
I remember the broken bits well! Also a Jowett Javelin saloon car parked more or less oposite.
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had a walk round there last weekend,the loading bay is still there on the top floor. the buildings up for sale.looks just the same.thanks pete are you from that area.
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Just to broaden this out a bit. There was a peanut factory in Grosvenor road New Brighton. A crisp "factory" in Union street Egremont, a pickle "factory" in Rock Ferry. Road name escapes me but turn right off New Chester road where the Abbotsford was/is?
Us oldies remember the crisps with the little bag of salt. No other flavours then plus you thought it was great when there was more than one bag of salt put in by mistake. You never actually realised you probably got less crisps because of it. The pickle factory was in Nelson Road. My mate's mum worked there.
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