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I think the shop behind bus stop was Sadie's. Eric's used to be on the corner where the Londis shop stands.  Thanks, Janet!
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The one I remember looked like this ...
Yep that's the one...hahaa...I couldn't find the pic!!!
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went to lidl in rock ferry on Tuesday & spotted some bags of fruit salad & black jacks just eating them now, yummy
no1s gonna keep me from u
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There's a new sweet shop in Bebington (next to the bathroom store where the solicitors used to be).
I went in there today, they have all the sweets in jars and sell them by the 100g (which from my childhood memory seemed a LOT less than a 1/4).
Lots of the older sweets in there and a fair few that I haven't seen in years, couldn't see any Bazooka Joe though...
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...used to make my eyes hurt trying to read the tiny writing on the Bazooka Joe Comics. Seem to remember the writing got ridiculously small on the bottom couple of lines were they printed some great words of wisdom, or some kind of 'fortune'.
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nerds I use to love as a kid or Apple Jacks use to go in to the shop on the Holmlands (forbuoys) and ask for 100 of them lol
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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!) ahh yes,Mrs Burnham,remember her well,and Talbots further along,and Shorrocks the news agent were we would get bundles of wood to light the fire[when we had coal fires],the chippy[still there],the chandlers next to Talbots,Mr Talbot always found a penny behind my ear!and he would draw a ring on my finger or he would give me the wrapper off a quality street sweet to wear as a ring! opposite Mrs Burnhams was the co-op----------all gone now---------all turned into flats----shame!
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I've said on here before, Uncle Joe's mint balls, but not this modern day prepacked rubbish, the ones that were stuck together in the jar and had to be eaten with most of the paper bag stuck to them. i remember uncle joe's mint balls,my Great Gran always had a bag of those in her bag and she would give me one, and yes they were the old type---sticky with the paper bag stuck to them, they always remind me of Great Gran.
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Loved going to the sweet shop in Irby village which we called Donnas for some reason. They had a massive table in the middle of the shop full of penny sweets... Its a pet shop now...x
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DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER BETTY DUDDY,S SHOP AND REAGLE REENIES SHOP OVER THE ROAD FROM THE BLUEBELL PUB JUST OF CLEVELAND STREET BHEAD MERSEYSIDE MY 2 FAVOURITE SHOPS EVER RAINBOW DROPS WITH ADHD IN THEM AND WHAM BARS 1 LICK AND YOUD HAVE A MINI STROKE, AWSOME AND TOFFY LOGS 2P WATA CHILDHOOD XXX
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yep sure do,i used to send my dog for the paper to reenies!
Every dog has its day!
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haha 2 oz i still go to say 2 oz when ordering sweets for my kids now.....!!  Remember too that sweets were priced for 2oz or quarters, all served from a big jar. No E numbers then either, just honest to goodness white death. When the rationing was lifted we didn't have much dosh to buy sweets anyway but made money by taking jam jars, pop bottles, beer bottles etc back for the deposit money, nice little earner.
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Gay Cards on Borough Road, at the bottom of Clarence Road. The old version of the shop opposite the Plaza which used to be an out-and-out newsagents long ago (now a general late night shop)...even further back, do ANY of you recall a sweet shop opposite the Sportsmans pub on Prenton Road East, on the corner of a block of houses? Venetian blinds hid the goodies contained inside. A rare treat on the seemingly long walk home from Bedford Drive School for a 6 year old lad.
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If you mean diagonally opposite the Sportsman's pub, where there is now a shop called the Prenton Pop-In, I certainly remember a sweet shop there. I sometimes used to visit it on my way home from Well Lane school. Can't remember Venetian blinds though.
Carpe diem.
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