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Well its not a smoking thing but does anyone remember Woodcock St baths and being able to buy hot drinking chocolate after a good swim?
I'm strictly a tea man myself, I cant stand Coffee although I love the smell (I also like sliding a spoon into a fresh jar of coffee and opening that foil)
Drinking chocolate to me held no really pleasures either..apart from straight after the swimming baths.
Cocoa? Horlicks? Bovril..nah.
Talking about drinks, I'm going to include food here, so many things I dont eat these days (or ever)
I dont eat chicken, fish, breakfast cereals (wheatabix, get out of my face!), I dont like many greens although I do love a salad in french dressing..
Yet all the modern stuff like Curries, Thai food, Chinese etc..I love.
But not those same vegetables etc if they're prepared the English way.
I put it down to a poor upbringing, so many different foods were denied me because they were either too expensive, too much preparation, or just simply not available.
Educated on poverty, raised on pestilence...that's me.
 
Drinking Chocolate, Tea & Coffee

:D Yes Kandy I do remember those lovely hot chocolate drinks at Woodcock St baths 8) . Can’t drink coffee gives me headaches, so I only drink tea, or milk. I hate Coke and any of those fizzy drinks. Can’t eat most veggies, but love Potatoes, Carrots, peas and most Salads, also coleslaw, but can’t eat cabbage cooked because of the allergy :( (something changes in the cabbage when it’s cooked). I love most meat dishes though :) .
Now look what you’ve done made me wonder off topic again :oops: , you… you! :lol: :lol:
 
Drinking Hot Chocolate and Hot Oxo after swimming

I swam in three swimming pools regularly when I was a school kid in the l950's. Mason Road, Erdington, Kingstanding Baths and Woodcock Street. I went with the school to Woodcock Street so we were never allowed to have a hot drink after swimming even in the winter. You could see that little place where they sold it and, of course, smell it and that was torture. Money was very tight and sometimes my brother and I walked to both Erdington and Kingstanding Baths to save the money so that we could indulge in a cup of strong hot Oxo or a mug of Hot Chocolate after we came out of the pool. I think the price was 2d. The water in the swimming pools was generally cold and those drinks warmed you up great. We knew the ladies who worked in the restaurant at Erdington and they always put more powder in, making it quite delicious.
We had an Aunt who lived in Kingstanding. She had no kids but always had
some goodies on hand so it was worthwhile going to Kingstanding Baths
since we always called in if she was at home.
 
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