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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
The penny Spanish was soft(I never said you were daft Eric - but there are others who may not be quite the same era, it was a clarification for them)...and much much bigger and sweeter too.
Pomfret cakes were something else.......not within our financial reach.
The deposit on a Cheshire milk bottle was three hapence.....enough for the loaf and Spanish.
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What about liquorice root Margaret? We chewed the living daylights out of those little twigs to get every last bit of taste out of them.
Bought them from the little shop on South Street, Atarah will remember them.
