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I saw this on Twitter. It was in a North Wales charity shop.

It looks so refined in these photos.

A Shelby in Moliere: https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/paul-anderson-tartuffe-interview-peaky-blinders_46625.html

Yes, I mean a "book" of leaves. I don't remember them in dispensing machines, though, but it sounds a good idea. A few years ago, a friend gave me some National Trust ones - which I've mislaid! I think you can get liquid Dreft now.

Soap leaves, which for some reason came into my mind today. We used to take them on long train journeys, I think. You can still buy them!

It's a bit hard to imagine...wouldn't the guns be quite difficult to dance with? :-)

Thanks, Mike, I will be iPlayering (that's not a word!) it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b223m0/britain-in-bloom-series-1-12-stetchford I saw about three minutes of this, but it's on iPlayer.

Strange to see!

Thanks to everyone who jogged my memory! I think it had three floors? But so did the Bull Ring one, or perhaps that was the one that had three floors. Occasionally it appears in a dream, as does Lewis's.

I was in Birmingham last month, and sitting upstairs with my husband in Pret-A-Manger I was trying to overlay my memories of that end of New Street on what's there now. It was hard. I couldn't remember where Woolworth's used to be, for instance!

The first item on this programme is about dessert shops, a new thing, apparently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ztycd

The brickwork is lovely. Trying to visualise New Street, I can't place this at all.

There was a rocking horse like that in Garrison Lane park!

I remember it (often used to pass it on the way home) but not the Blue Bird sign.

It's amazing how things change yet remain the same, if that makes sense.

Liquorice toffees were often cylindrical - I wonder why? Treacle toffees and rum and butter were also among my favourites.

Fibromyalgia is a horrible thing to have, Smudger. The left-over Easter eggs being sold for half price in Waitrose reminded me that Rackhams used to break up any left-over eggs and sell them as broken chocolate.

I used to like Fry's Chocolate Sandwich, but don't remember them looking quite like this. Last had one in the mid-70s which I bought on New Street Station. More recently, Marks Spencer used to make one that had layers of plain, white and milk chocolate.

It wasn't a false memory, then! The collection at the Pen Room is huge.