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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I can't recall sweets being on ration when I was little......we still didn't get them though.
There were other things that the money went on(penny hovis and a ha'penny Spanish).
I only remember it being Spanish water.....it was always made up in a glass medicine bottle, with a cork in the top.......and we never ever hit anyone over the head with the bottle(to stay on topic).
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Sugar rationing stopped in about 1953 so I guess sweets also came off ration then. My Aunt queued for over 2hours whilst on holiday in Weston -S -Mare to get me an off ration Candy Floss in 1947.