Posted by bill oliphant on 7/2/2008, 1:18 am, in reply to "Re: The Ranch sweet shop"
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Dear Barry,
Thanks for the message - I was beginning to think that everyone in West had really carked it (as they say these days). During the war,not only was there standing room only in the Ranch itself, but also in the little shop next door where we used to spend our halfpennies. You may be right about the name "Wheels", but I don't myself remember it. But then, at my age, I hardly remember anything. As you age, three things happen. The first is that memory starts to go. And I've forgotten what the other two are.
Cheers,
Bill
--Previous Message--
: With regard to the sweet shop next to
: the Ranch picture house, I remember
: going in there everytime I went to
: the cimema back in the nineteen
: fifties. As to the owner at that
: time, the name Carl Weel (or Wheel)
: rings a bell. Does that ring bells
: with anyone else?
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: --Previous Message--
: Hi Bill,
:
: Yes, Dawson rang bells
:
: Lyn
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: --Previous Message--
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: Dear Lyn,
: Thanks Lyn - yes, the
: name "Dawson" does sound
: familiar. Do you have any friends
: with whom it rings bells ?
: Cheers,
:
: Bill
: --Previous Message--
: Hi Bill
:
: Could the name of the sweet shop
: owners be Dawson do you think
:
: Lyn
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: --Previous Message--
: Hi Bill,
:
: I was told that Wheels (could be
: Weighells)had the sweet shop during
: the war then moved to a fish shop I
: think on the end of Post Office
: Square.
:
: Apparently as sweets were rationed
: during the war it was a stick of
: liquorice (the woody variety) and an
: Oxo cube - a halfpenny each - to
: munch on while enjoying the film!!
:
: Lyn
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: --Previous Message--
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: --Previous Message--
: Hi Bill,
:
: Could it have been Wheels.
:
:
: Lyn
: --Previous Message--
: Dear All, I know you're out there -
: can't ANYONE tell me the name of the
: little sweet shop which used to
: stand just outside the Ranch, and
: which sold such fine things as
: Bassett's sherbet licorice (a
: halfpenny a triangular bag), and
: (for the very rich) bars of Aero
: milk chocolate ?
:
: Dear Lyn, It could have been
: "Wheels", but I don't
: recall the (usually crowded) shop
: having that name. On the other
: hand there was a fish shop called
: "Wheels" (perhaps spelled
: "Weighells")just on the
: opposite side of the road from
: P.Rea's ice-cream shop - delicious
: ice-cream, at a halfpenny for half a
: cupful. Oh, happy daus. Were you
: thinking of that ? In any case,
: many thanks for the reply. Bill
:
:
: Dear Lyn,
: I should also have said that the
: Wheels
: fish shop (fish and a pennorth,
: please) was there all through (and
: before) the War, as was the old
: sweet shop. And there were
: another two fish shops in what I
: later learned was called Post Office
: Square.: Cheers again, Bill
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