The Oldies Thread

summerisle · July 19, 2022

Bod : the philosophical years.

Littlesue · July 19, 2022

summerisle said:
Can you still get these ? Used to suck the artificial sweeteners and colours until there was just ice left, never did me any harm. lol

Jublee's were the best, did you suck or bite? ?

summerisle · July 21, 2022

Blimey. lol

tommytowne · July 22, 2022

summerisle said:
Can you still get these ? Used to suck the artificial sweeteners and colours until there was just ice left, never did me any harm. lol

In 67 I got a job in the summer holidays at Lunts in Tranmere mixing the flavours for the ice pops. Best flavour were the cola version.

summerisle · July 22, 2022

tommytowne said:
In 67 I got a job in the summer holidays at Lunts in Tranmere mixing the flavours for the ice pops. Best flavour were the cola version.

Was that at Holt Road or nearabouts ?

tommytowne · July 22, 2022

summerisle said:
Was that at Holt Road or nearabouts ?

Yes, halfway up Holt Road.

magicjuan · July 22, 2022

tommytowne said:
In 67 I got a job in the summer holidays at Lunts in Tranmere mixing the flavours for the ice pops. Best flavour were the cola version.

Flavours? I thought it was just bioluminescent colourings they added, like glow sticks ?

tommytowne · July 22, 2022

magicjuan said:
Flavours? I thought it was just bioluminescent colourings they added, like glow sticks ?

They additives all had long strange names back then. No "E" numbers like today. Kids that we were back then, at the end of the day we took all the defected pops to the skips for waste. Then the pop fights started all of us going home drenched in sticky artificial flavouring.
Not on Thursday though. Payday saw me at fifteen going into one of the pubs on Old Chester Road on way home. Start of the slippery slope!

summerisle · July 22, 2022

tommytowne said:
Yes, halfway up Holt Road.

I lived 5 minutes' away from the factory, my mother used to work there. Used to bring loads of goodies home.

tommytowne · July 22, 2022

summerisle said:
I lived 5 minutes' away from the factory, my mother used to work there. Used to bring loads of goodies home.

The factory moved from Seymour Street to the Holt Road site. Fond childhood memories.

summerisle · July 22, 2022

tommytowne said:
The factory moved from Seymour Street to the Holt Road site. Fond childhood memories.

Used to be a sweet shop nearby (Henshaws ?) where they used to have ha'ppeny and penny trays of sweets. You could get a fair few for not much outlay. There was a bombed out area virtually adjacent where we used to have bonfires - weeks collecting wood and any other crap we could get, also made decent guys, not like the pathetic attempts you get nowadays.

tommytowne · July 23, 2022

summerisle said:
Used to be a sweet shop nearby (Henshaws ?) where they used to have ha'ppeny and penny trays of sweets. You could get a fair few for not much outlay. There was a bombed out area virtually adjacent where we used to have bonfires - weeks collecting wood and any other crap we could get, also made decent guys, not like the pathetic attempts you get nowadays.

Think the bomb site was the old St Andrews school site. Those bonfires once started had kids guarding them to stop them being raided.