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Products Of The 1930s

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There are so many items that are still on sale today it beggars belief how they have survived. They must have been damn good products in the begining to last 80 years.
 
I still have Weetabix everyday

Holicks,Birds Custard, Powder,Atora & always keep Robinson Lemon or Lemon Barley water in the house.
 
What about the finest brown sauce ever : Goodhall & Backhouse's 'Yorkshire Relish' ??? (appologies to more er 'local' brown-sauce manufacturers...)
 
Well, let's be fair, Yorkshire must surely have at least one good thing to its name; it just happens to be brown sauce! ;)
 
And what about Yorshire pudding? I absolutely LOVE that. Not heard of Yorkshire relish though.
 
Thats allowed shortie because there never was a Birmingham Pudding. .....................................................................Was there?
 
Well never heard of one Stitcher, and I do like puddings! Perhaps someone can come up with one?
 
I don't know if it came out in the 1930's, but does anyone remember Palm Toffee? Delicious bars of plain toffee with a flavour sandwiched between? I remember strawberry and also banana, which was my favourite. I used to absolutely adore them. Blue Bird was also good, and my mother had a favourite toffee sweet - Parkes Chocolate Eclairs. Nothing quite like those has ever emerged since. They were still available until about 1970, either a distribution point or could have actually been made, in Handsworth, on Oxhill Road. Why are all the best tastes gone?
 
Palm Toffee definately rings a bell and Blue Bird toffees were made at a factory in Hunnington near Halesowen. I don't know if Blue Bird re-located or just closed down but I did deliver Garden products to the factory when the premises were divided up and used for storage by several different companies.
 
It is amazing Sticher, how many products are still around, take Lee & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce. There was one on the supermarket shelf yesterday & that was in the Central Market, Adelaide (Australia). Not changed.
John Baldry
 
Hello John, I believe the label on todays Lee & Perrin has remained the same for many years, probably since the begining of production. It has already been said that we all think of what has gone but do not pass a thought of what is still here from our childhoods.
It is nice to know someone so far away reads the threads as well.
stitcher.
 
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whilst rummaging I came across some old newspapers, this is an advert from The Daily Herald Thursday May 13th 1937.
 
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I doubt anyone under the age fifty would ever understand that what seem to be very low prices, were if fact quite relevant to the wages of the day.
 

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I was amazed to see Swizzles on sale in the Co-op today, I haven't seen them for years and thought production had been discontinued.
 
hi sylv yes swizzles are still sold in quite a few shops...and love hearts lol...

lyn
 
Bought my wife a packet of love hearts just last week, she was impressed, no she was really....
 
HI NEVILE ;
i buy my old dutchess those love hearts regular from our local spa shop along with her daily supply of four pack crunchies
and if i am only going for the paper she wil say dont for get the love hearts 19 pence per packet
mind you if you asked me i reckon she going through her second childhood ; ha;
 
Aaah the way to a girls heart 'swizzles and love hearts'

If only i had known earlier....
 
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