sweeties

[anndavies]

i was walking round the asda yesterday and they have their eastereggs on display already i can remember years ago in the gorbals looking in Frank Hillsides little shop with my nose pressed against the window at all those lovely eggs ...can anyone remember franks wee shop and all the lovely sweeties

[JosieStuksis]

Where was Frank Hillsides shop then Ann?

[anndavies]

hi josie ,frank hillsides was just along from the double eagle pub ....my dad was wee jimmy kerr he worked in the clock bar and the double eagle at one time before he went hawking ....i was born at 180 nicholson st in 1949 and went to wee st Johns school .i still have the photo you sent in it brought alot of memories ...take care Josie .....Ann

[frankford]

Hi, was it not Hallside's shop in Gorbals St, just down from Cleland St I remember getting the ice cream wafers somewhere there,
that was the rectangular block ice cream. thanks for the memory Frank

[DannyGill]

Hi Ann,
in regards to the Easter eggs on sale, we have the same here in London, Easter eggs n hot cross buns are on the shelves of the supermarkets, I remember too pressing my face against the shop windows and wishing I could have one of those chocolate eggs. Truth of the matter in those days our Ma's and Da's just didn't have the money, I always remember Easter Sunday morning my Ma would boil some eggs in the pot and when they were hard boiled my sister Jeanette and me would go over to the Richmond park and paint faces on the hard boiled eggs, then roll them down a hill and run after them and when we got them we would pick the shell off and that was our Easter egg. [try telling that to our grandchildren !!!!]. I loved walking along Cumberland st and looking in the many shops there when I was a boy and the memory is still fresh in my mind, I bought the Book "the Gorbals illustrated" Ann and it gives you photos with wording underneath of each photo, it's a right walk down memory lane , have you or anyone else got a copy of it ?, if not I would urge you to buy a copy. I got mine from Amazon, ordering it online and was posted through my letterbox and once a wek or so I go through it and I'm back in the old Gorbals again. Speak later Ann, God Bless.

[tweedlie5]

I remember how thick the edges of the easter eggs were, oh the joy of easter sunday in the 50's, used to take the big bow of the egg for my hair......who remembers...lucky potatoes....I suppose weans these days would choke on the toy haha......then there was frys 5 boys chocolate bars Mmmmm.

[TheGorbalsAdmin]

One of my own few early memories from the mid 1960's when I was wee, was a treat from a shop near oor close on Cumberland st where we would get as a treat a poke of sugar and a stick of rhubard for a penny!

Can't recall the name of the shop but I can taste the flavours even as I go to type these words!

[margaretmcgettigan]

When I was growing up in the Gorbals in the 40's there were very few sweeties, as they were rationed, and my mammy used to exchange her sweeties coupons for tea or sugar coupons...the only sweeties I can remember getting was at Cissie McCafferty's, wee shop on Mathieson Street, who sold you a paper (newspaper) poke of raisins and there was always a "boiling" in the bottom of it...Then Tommy Malarky, (spelling) who had an ice cream shop right next to the girls' senior section of St. Francis on Mathieson Street, down from Cissie's, used to sell slices of apple dipped in chocolate from their shop or through the gates of the school at playtime, they cost a penny each...But, we always got some sweeties at the bottom of our Christmas stocking, that and an tangerine, if they were to be had

[tweedlie5]

remember going to the fruit shop in caledonia road for chipped fruit, a bag with an apple that wis a bit brown and a banana for a penny.......or the hot dumpling I used to get sent down to cumberland street for to have with custard for tea, half of it eaten by the time I got back to cale road. But mammy that aw he gave me...honest

[amelia]

Hi Anne the shop we all went to was Mary Purries (Spelling)?? it was in Cavendish st before you came to Abbotsford place she sold every sweet under the sun. Sometimes we would go to the Marigold Cafe in Cumberland St. between Salisbury St and Abbotsford lane. There were 3 sisters Pema, Pama and Rosie Gizzi don't know if that is the right spelling. They had a bit at the back of the cafe that you could sit in but we never had the money to sit in it.
Amelia