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I remember buying Horlicks tablets from the chemist when the meagre sweet coupon ration ran out (which was always!!) also a wifie in Naburn street sold puff candy and toffee apples from her ground floor bedroom window!

Commercial Road was the best for selling all these things you could get whelks, toffee apples and then Tommy Malarky in Mathieson St. sold an apple slice dipped in chocolate which was a great treat.
I remember we didn't have enough money to buy the sweets so we always had coupons left and we took them around to Mr Nimmo in Cumberland St and he would give us some sweets for them
Amelia x

Jimbo wrote:I remember buying Horlicks tablets from the chemist when the meagre sweet coupon ration ran out (which was always!!) also a wifie in Naburn street sold puff candy and toffee apples from her ground floor bedroom window!

Hi Jimbo,
Just a bit before my time [not that many years though], would these tablets been for helping coughs ?, I know Iv'e heard of drinking a cup of Horlicks before you went to bed at night time.
Regards.
Danny

amelia wrote:Commercial Road was the best for selling all these things you could get whelks, toffee apples and then Tommy Malarky in Mathieson St. sold an apple slice dipped in chocolate which was a great treat.
I remember we didn't have enough money to buy the sweets so we always had coupons left and we took them around to Mr Nimmo in Cumberland St and he would give us some sweets for them
Amelia x

Hi Amelia,
Just as I was saying to Jimbo I think I just missed the coupon/rationing or was it still on the go then ?, that apple slice dipped in chocolate did it have a stick attached to it ?
Regards
Danny

Danny, Sweets rationing ended on February 5th, 1953 probably just in time for you as a five-year-old to "have a ball". This article about Woolworth and rationing is interesting > http://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/pnmrationing.html

Horlicks tablets were supposed to be very nutritious and were, in fact, given away free to athletes at the 1948 London Summer Olympic Games.

Here is another tin design.

Another substitute for when the coupons ran out (we got an allowance of 12 ounces/340 grams a MONTH! that's 85 grams a WEEK) was to get your mother to buy (if she could find it) a packet of jelly cubes (and cut it up into its squares), this made a chewy - VERY chewy, sort of a fruity sweet alternative!

Those too young to remember WWII rationing may find this article enlightening > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_ ... ed_Kingdom

Jimbo wrote:Another substitute for when the coupons ran out (we got an allowance of 12 ounces/340 grams a MONTH! that's 85 grams a WEEK) was to get your mother to buy (if she could find it) a packet of jelly cubes (and cut it up into its squares), this made a chewy - VERY chewy, sort of a fruity sweet alternative!

We used jelly cubes to make our fingernails grow...also yeast tablets...

Jimbo wrote:Danny, Sweets rationing ended on February 5th, 1953 probably just in time for you as a five-year-old to "have a ball". This article about Woolworth and rationing is interesting > http://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/pnmrationing.html

Horlicks tablets were supposed to be very nutritious and were, in fact, given away free to athletes at the 1948 London Summer Olympic Games.

Here is another tin design.

Hi Jimbo,
Absolutly marvellous mate, I urge everyone to read these links that Jimbo has given us here in regards to Rationing etc. I never knew that Woolworths had a mobile shop [only lasted for twp years] going round some towns and I didn't realise how scarce food etc was in WW2 and after for a few years. I guess I was one of the lucky kids to just have missed rationing by the skin of my teeth [theyv'e gone and got all dentures now !!!!].Well done Jimbo.
Regards.
Danny

Danny, I think you will find this link also of interest > http://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-rationing.htm