Visiting The Sweet Shop
I lived in Old Coulsdon as a small child and can remember walking up to The Parade to visit the sweet shop. We lived down the bottom of the hill at the bottom of The Glade and it always seemed a long hard climb up to The Parade. We used to cut across through the churchyard.
If I was very lucky I was allowed to buy a Jamboree bag in the sweet shop. A Jamboree bag was a mix of different sweets like penny chews, liquorice sticks etc and also a small toy.
Other times I would buy a sherbert dab or 2oz of boiled sweets such as rhubarb and custard, pear drops and best of all fruit pips which were very small fruit flavoured boiled sweets so you got lots for your money.
We moved away from Old Coulsdon in 1962 but I still have fond memories of the village.
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I can't believe this, but I'm pretty sure I have got a very good memory of you! I lived in the Glade in the 1960s and early 1970s and one day me and my mate were walking up the alley way towards the churchyard and we turned round and saw you, and you chased us and in the cemetery you stamped on me and scared me so much you made me wet myself! I can laugh now but I remember going home and telling my mum and she went down to see your mum! I don't suppose you remember it, but it's always stuck in my mind.
Comment from Gillian Battersby on Monday, 21st December 2009.