Sweet Shops & Newsagents

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Mon 04 Feb, 2008 11:10 pm

stevief wrote: I 'borrowed' this pic from the 'Signs and Symbols'thread.The building on the right on Bankfield Road was a sweets and tobacconists run by an elderly lady who never really fathomed 'new pence'.She had a large conversion chart on the wall and would convert any item bought back into 'old money',work out the change and re-convert into 'new pence'.A simple transaction like buying a Mars bar could take 10 minutes.She was a casualty of decimalisation... A little further along Bankfield Road,at the junction with Adwick Place,stood 'Battyes' another sweet and tobacconist run,rather quaintly,by a brother and sister.

Si · Post by Si » Tue 05 Feb, 2008 9:29 am

stevief wrote: Trojan wrote: Si wrote: Here's a few lost sweet shops from 60's Pudsey, but I can't remember all their names. There was Blackburn's on the corner of Occupation Lane and New Occupation Lane, and another halfway down towards Waterloo Road. Jowett's on Smalewell Road. There was also a sweet shop right next door, but can't recall the name, with jars of kayli. There was another on Chapeltown parade opposite the cenotaph which had "Jubbly" ads in the window by the door. I used to get Lucky Bags and Everlasting Strips from Anne's on Waterloo Road on the way home from school. Anyone remember Spanish Gold? It was brown coconut tobacco. There were also miniature chocolate cigarettes in American facimile packets. Camel, Winstons etc. All long banned, I should think! I attended Pudsey Tech in the sixties, and used to buy illiicit cigarettes from a shop opposite the grammar school on Richardshaw Lane, I can't remember though whether it was a sweet shop, a newsagents or an off licence. I went to Pudsey tech in the early '70s(we were all transferred to Airedale and Wharfedale in Horsforth when it opened) and I remember that shop.I bought my very first can of beer there-Long Life-it should have been enough to put me off for the rest of my days! The shop's still there. I think most of the stock is still sixties/seventies as everything in the window is bleached and faded !

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Tue 05 Feb, 2008 9:37 am

One shop I remember with fondness was Mrs Hardy's on Henconner lane. If she didn't have it in stock then you never really needed it. Shop is still there, but sadly Mrs Hardy has long since vacated it. Standard asian type shop nowadays..

Si · Post by Si » Wed 06 Feb, 2008 11:03 am

Trojan wrote: Si wrote: Here's a few lost sweet shops from 60's Pudsey, but I can't remember all their names. There was Blackburn's on the corner of Occupation Lane and New Occupation Lane, and another halfway down towards Waterloo Road. Jowett's on Smalewell Road. There was also a sweet shop right next door, but can't recall the name, with jars of kayli. There was another on Chapeltown parade opposite the cenotaph which had "Jubbly" ads in the window by the door. I used to get Lucky Bags and Everlasting Strips from Anne's on Waterloo Road on the way home from school. Anyone remember Spanish Gold? It was brown coconut tobacco. There were also miniature chocolate cigarettes in American facimile packets. Camel, Winstons etc. All long banned, I should think! I attended Pudsey Tech in the sixties, and used to buy illiicit cigarettes from a shop opposite the grammar school on Richardshaw Lane, I can't remember though whether it was a sweet shop, a newsagents or an off licence. As an aside, did you pronounce Richardshaw Lane "Rikkuh-shuh Lane?" I wonder how that happened. And who was Richard Shaw?

peterg · Post by **peterg** » Wed 06 Feb, 2008 4:52 pm

On Penda's Grove (even number side) the first shop (alongside nº 1 was a newsagent's run by the Sadler family (Mr Sadler was a tramdriver). Later, if my memory does not fail me, it became Irwin's. I believe the Sadlers emigrated to Australia. Apart from newspapers and sweets, they also sold fireworks in the appropriate season (a banger cost 1/4d plus purchase tax).

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Thu 07 Feb, 2008 7:35 pm

not quite on topic but it does concern sweets. I remember when i lived in York from 1977-1983 being able to get a cough sweet called (I think) "Betty Plants". I also used to be able to buy them off a stall in Leeds indoor market. They were orange lozenge shaped with aniseed and other stuff in.I have a vague feeling they made in either Leeds or Harrogate.I haven't seen them for years and anyone I mention them too has never heard of them.Anyone on here confirm they existed or know what they were/are?

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Thu 07 Feb, 2008 9:55 pm

Not sweets (spice) or sweetshops as such but I remember Granellis ice cream van coming round when I used to visit my Grandad in the St. Wilfred's (in the sixties) ... beat Mr. Whippy hands down

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Thu 07 Feb, 2008 10:56 pm

zip55 wrote: Not sweets (spice) or sweetshops as such but I remember Granellis ice cream van coming round when I used to visit my Grandad in the St. Wilfred's (in the sixties) ... beat Mr. Whippy hands down The used to have a shop next to the Kirkgate entrance of Kirkgate Market. I must admit that I never thought they were up to the standard of Caddy's from Dewsbury.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 08 Feb, 2008 12:07 am

zip55 wrote: Not sweets (spice) or sweetshops as such but I remember Granellis ice cream van coming round when I used to visit my Grandad in the St. Wilfred's (in the sixties) ... beat Mr. Whippy hands down my dad was a mate of the granellis,remember their shops in the market?we lived on the st wilfrids too...

liits · Post by **liits** » Sat 09 Feb, 2008 2:17 am

I'm sorry to do this to you, but this is Wiggy's fault, I'm going to have to start a thread about Ice cream vans / sellers.... But it will be in General Chat, not in the "Pubs" thread.