The Sweet Shop

A Memory of Hessle.

The sweet shop down Prestongate was the place where my mum bought a quarter of sweets before we went to the Plaza cinema. A quarter of sweets is only four ounces . They were weighed out on scales, tipped in a triangular paper bag and the lid put back on the glass sweet jar. Rows of jars lined the shelves. Would it be liquorice or mint humbugs or midget gems or toffee? When sweets came off ration in the fifties, long after the war a big queue formed in Prestongate as people were now able to buy sweets without coupons and as much as they wanted. Happy days.