Originally Posted by claytonx (Post 960587)

I had a good wage John as a underground mechanic at Huncoat Pit and could make my own overtime.While my wife worked at Clayton laundry and had a good wage.Mortgage was £4.25 per month,no car, no telephone,no tv very little outgoing expence.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 960403)

Biscuits.......if you wanted a pound of mixed biscuits you chose the ones you liked from the glass lidded tins....the grocery assistant would pick them out and put them in a paper bag. The name Huntley and Palmers springs to mind.
My dad was an apprentice grocer (his words) at Redmans in Accrington,he then moved to Duckworth`s,got married,bought a house up Dowry St.Not long after,dad bought a shop in Haslingden.I was born above the shop(1952),the biscuit comment Margaret, was so true,those glass lidded tins were a feature in dads shop, I will never forget that.What I also remember strongly was dad buying a freezer,it was very much the new thing to sell frozen food,tv dinners and frozen peas!

Originally Posted by gdm27 (Post 961011)

I remember when Mum and Dad had to run a tab at the grocers around the corner. Bet that doesn't happen anymore!

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 961069)

I remember mum collecting Green Shield Stamps when i was little but I don't know what they were for.

Originally Posted by claytonx (Post 961072)

Shops bought Green Shield Stamps and gave them away to customers for buying at their shop and to tempt them to come back.You saved the stamps in books provided and you were also given at the time a catalogue with gifts in,when you had enough books filled you could exchange them for gifts to that value either by post, or there was a shop at Blackpool where you could go and choose there.

Good explanation or not?

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 961074)

Great explanation - now you mention them I remember the catalogues too. A sort of early "supermarket points" system for faithful clients.

Mum used to smoke back then and I vaguely remember some Embassy coupons too...

Originally Posted by claytonx (Post 961072)

Shops bought Green Shield Stamps and gave them away to customers for buying at their shop and to tempt them to come back.You saved the stamps in books provided and you were also given at the time a catalogue with gifts in,when you had enough books filled you could exchange them for gifts to that value either by post, or there was a shop at Blackpool where you could go and choose there.

Good explanation or not?

Originally Posted by claytonx (Post 961079)

I now shame to say that my wife and me saved enough Embassy ciggy coupons to get a babys pram this was 1968/9 i've just asked my wife she says value about £40-£50 what a lot of cigs we must have smoked. I gave up after heart problems 2003.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 961090)

Ya I used to smoke Embassy too claytonx, I gave up in 1978