Two ounces of those please

[Danny]

Does anyone else remember being able to buy sweets from the big jars in two ounce bags?
I know it ended up in most shops you could get a quarter but I still remember dithering and getting smaller bags so I could spread my coppers

[Sly]

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On the street I grew up on there was a tobacconists that naturally sold sweets too. Everything was in jars, except chocolate bars which were quite expensive and upmarket for the time. I once remember standing at the door counting the jars and there must have been at least 150 different types. I would have counted through the window but for some reason the tobacconist had these really high thin windows that even a grown man would struggle to see through. I think they had mix ups on the counter too, which I thought was unusual because most shops would have had newspapers. I think maybe the local shops people had a gentlemen's agreement not to step on each others toes because the Post Office/newsagents only started selling cigarettes after the tobacconists shut up shop.

[Heather74]

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We asked for sweets by the quarter or if we hadn't got enough for a quarter by the 'moneys worth',... 'can I have 10p worth of kop kops please'

[Paulos]

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I do remember buying two ounces of jarred sweets, probably when I didn't have enough money for a quarter.

[FLYING SAUCER]

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Usually small sweeties, like Tom Thumb Pips or Floral Gums?

[marilynd04]

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Yes, I do. My sister had a sweet shop and she used to make up two ounce bags for the school kids.

[darren]

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funny enough i still have a shop called mackles and you can still get a quarter of this and that.

all the diffeent sweets are kept i nbig clear plastic screw top containers.
i still get them myself.
shop has been there long before i was born.
just going in is nostalgic.

if i can find its postcode ill put it up using google earth.

[sixtyten]

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Last time I was in Kilarnney in Ireland (1997?), there was a old abandonded (I assume) sweet shop, which had not been touched since the 70's.. amazing to look in the window and see the old packaging still on display. A real time capsule

[darren]

Re: Two ounces of those please

Last time I was in Kilarnney in Ireland (1997?), there was a old abandonded (I assume) sweet shop, which had not been touched since the 70's.. amazing to look in the window and see the old packaging still on display. A real time capsule

well the shop im talking about has not changed in my lifetime.
same counter same weighing scales etc.

[Hooper68]

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Two ounces of American cream soda was my idea of heaven!

[spuggybridge]

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used to buy 2oz of uncle macs from Fred Gills shop in Cudworth, Barnsley i the mid-late 70's .... what memories