[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, I remember them.......and I remember cutting the labels from Black and Green's tea. You collected so many labels and then you sent them up and you got a china cup and saucer. My Mum always aspired to having some lovely china cups to drink out of....alas with seven of us doing the washing up the crockery never lasted long in our house.

She did collect enough for two cups and saucers and a sugar bowl and milk jug......these were unveiled when my Auntie Nellie(not my real auntie at all) called and she was given tea out of those precious cups and saucers......and we were not allowed to touch them.
They bit the dust when one of my younger brothers knelt on the drop down front of the kitchenette....the whole thing toppled over and disgorged its contents onto the stone floor. There were some sore legs that night!