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The Bon Bon

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Does anyone have any memories or photographs of a sweet shop/tobacconists called 'The Bon Bon'?

Please be gentle this is my first post...


thanks Neville.
 
Hello Neville welcome, easy one to start off with, which Bon Bon shop and where?
 
Welcome Neville, there was a Bon Bon shop on Warwick Rd near to the junction with Lincoln Road Acocks Green/Olton.
 
Didn't realise there were more than one, presumably some sort of franchise i suppose.

The one i am interested in was located on Coventry Road, Small Heath
opposite the 'Grange' cinema and probably next to 'Maturis' hardware
store.

Somewhere around the mid/late 1930's i believe was run by my Father.
 
Their was a Bon Bon on Tyburn road by the Norton Crossroads.The shop changed it's name years ago.
 
Hi Bammot,

Yes that's the one, is that from a Kellys trade directory?

How do i go about enlarging the image?

great work thank you.
 
Neville Philpott said:
Hi Bammot,

Yes that's the one, is that from a Kellys trade directory?

How do i go about enlarging the image?

great work thank you.
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you will need to click the image at least three times one when you get to my reply again whenthe blck bax appears and then again on the image appears on your screen, I thei makes sence to someone it sond allright in my head but when Iread it I think what?
 
if you hold your cursor over the thumbnail and right click, then select open link from the drop down, then when the plus sign appears left click and the writing will big and bold enough to read clearly
Regards Chris B
P.S there was also a BON BON sweet shop on the Coventry Road next door to the SHELDON CINEMA
 
It seems that the shops were some form of franchise operation, there

does appear to be several shops with the same name.

I wonder if they were actually owned by a cinema chain and appointed

individuals as managers.
 
I don't think that this was the case, as the one by the Sheldon was a house / bungalow with the front converted into the shop and it was run by 2 middle aged ladies as I remember.
Regards Chris B
 
Hello Chris,

The only 'Bon Bon' shop i ever came across was the one next to the

Sheldon cinema, i wasn't aware of the others until just recently.

Oddly enough my Mother used to take my sister and myself into

the Sheldon shop before we went into the cinema.

I say oddly, because i don't remember us ever having to pay for our

sweets and didn't understand why.

I wonder now if it was something to do with my Dads connection

to the shop in Small Heath.

Regards Neville..
 
Hello Stitcher,

Have now been informed that i have a connection with the shop you mentioned in
Fox Hollies near to Lincoln Road.

Do you have any further details on that shop?

thanks Neville..
 
Neville Philpott said:
Does anyone have any memories or photographs of a sweet shop/tobacconists called 'The Bon Bon'?

Please be gentle this is my first post...


thanks Neville.
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Yes, High Street Solihull - at the T junction opposite the end of Poplar Road. Lovely place went in every Sunday after Sunday school around 1955 to get their BonBon chocolates - round balls coated in milk chocolate about the size of a threepenny bit.
 
They sold ice cream as well. I was treated after a jab at the nearby children's clinic. Wonder if anyone will treat me after I get my covid jab. Fascinating shop with a door at either end of a bow window.
 
The bow window and the two doors were a treat in themselves. Don't know how my father coped with four of us looking for sweets each with less than sixpence to spend and wanting to agree and disagree on a variety of them. So much choice and shop always seemed crowded but always friendly.
 
Maybe it was a chain or a popular name as we had one in Coventry. You have evoked a very distant memory for me so far back I can hardly remember it. Very early 60's. I was too little to say Bon Bon I said Bom Bom. I remember mum saying the name. I just nipped in to the Bob Bon, gleefully, and I got these, but what? I remember a small white crinkly paper bag. I think it was in town. I also think she went there for something special, a proper confectioners. Remember when we got sweets in paper bags.? Mum did like bon bons covered in white icing sugar and mint imperials. I got sugar mice and sugar pigs at Christmas with a ribbon wound their neck. White and milk chocolate mice with tails. I think they were string? And a large chocolate cat or a rabbit sometimes. Maybe they came from there.
 
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