[blazey]

...when I went into Ossy Mills and saw that the Stockleys Sweet Factory had been replaced with another rubbish 'cheap' curtain/towels/boring pieces of material section.

I knew that the sweet factory was struggling but I honestly thought that somehow someone would find the funds to keep it going and avoid having to shut it down. To be honest I'm a bit disappointed that the owners seem to think that it wasn't valuable enough to save instead of replacing it with more of what it already has. Gone are the days where you go around with your tin bucket and pick your soaps from the 'Bubble factory' and now gone are the days where you go to get your traditional boiled sweets and get a glimpse at the process that produces them and some local history.

Maybe I'm overreacting but it actually brought a tear to my eye and I refused to look around the replacement stock. The peardrop still stands but it almost feels like it has lost its charm stood in the middle of a bright room filled with stacks of towels.

What can I say? I hate change. Especially when Stockley's sweets are something that I always mention when I tell people I'm from Oswaldtwistle. The peardrop has been stripped of its glory!