[Judith Addison]

If you walked down to Accrington from the High School there was a little shop in Westwood Street that sold penny lollies. The best had to be Laycocks' in Oswaldtwistle. Mr. & Mrs. Laycock lived opposite St. Paul's Church on Catlow Hall Street. Mr. Laycock used to go up to Commercial Street every day with a little cream-coloured hand-cart to get the ice cream. Mrs. Laycock sold the ice cream and lollies from a counter inside the front door of the house. There were ice cream sandwiches for sixpence - the wafers were double ones with a thin layer of jam inside. The penny lollies were various fruit flavours which Mrs. Laycock used to rhyme off. But one was just "green" - she must not have known the flavour! Mr. & Mrs. Laycock always looked absolutely filthy and would never have passed a food hygiene inspection these days! But the ice cream and lollies were wonderful and we never came to any harm!