Shops of yore

They had some in the sweet shop at Crich Tramway Museum last week so you must still be able to get it.

Thanks Anne. I can't imagine a child of today being happy to eat it, or bread and dripping!

"Sticks of Liquorice wood were bought from chemists" Should have added wings to their running on their way home - gives great meaning to spending a penny

Did someone mention 'dripping'. Water more like, genuine dripping is a thing of the past.

Not in this house, Dreamtime, the only thing you cannot eat on a pig is its squeak. You can't beat pork dripping on bread or toast.

Agree scrutiny, especially if there is a bit of jelly and don't forget a sprinkle of salt, so healthy. You can keep the liquorish wood though.

Don't forget the crackling scrutiny.

Hi Dreamtime, nothing wasted, the crackling is savoured when first cooled and crisp.

scrutiny. What about the blood? The days we ate dripping on toast up to the end of the war, pigs - the snout was lassoed then their feet were hog tied, then throat slit, then the legs were cut loose to let them pump out the blood, this was thought to be better meat and better dripping, but I doubt it - laws were brought in to stop this way of killing, and the dripping was still the same. The last time I saw this happen was about 1941 but a butcher would know.

Aha! Fried Black pudding is a must with breakfast, there again, can also be eaten on its own.

Syrup of figs, castor oil, goose grease, blackcurrant cordial, a hot brick wrapped in a blanket, all on a cold winter's night, ugh!

I used to buy liquorice wood from that chemist coventry49, in my day it was owned by Mr Pinson. (I also used to buy Horlicks tablets from there.)

Wasn't it Leedham's at some stage?

The sweet shop was a newsagents as well. We knew it as "Biggses". It certainly got a lot of business from us Freddies kids.

MR is correct, it did become Leedham's at some point in the sixties. I left Freddies Juniors in 1968 and it had changed hands by that time, I'm sure. Pinson's, as I recall, had a lot of merchandise in it and was a little old-fashioned. Once Leedham's took over it got a lot brighter and more self-service, as was the trend in the late 60s.