Windthrop

You can still get Craven A at alot of shops - well hidden and cheaper than the other brands. A assume that it is bein kept alive for older smokers.

Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !

orpheum

shops selling pipes are virtually extinct.Do tobbaconists today still sell pipe tobacco such as Old Gold in tins or at all?My late father smoked a pipe it was foul and alas the by products of it killed him in the end.

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Carmel

The older smokers couldn't still be alive smoking them.

Live each day to the full because one day it will be your last.

Windthrop

Someboy must be buying them - young fogeys ?

Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !

Chevyman

Solent Menthol Cigarettes.

Deca Cigarettes.........but gimmicky.....you could light the "incendiary" end of the fag by striking it on the edge of the packet


Hammonds Sauce.

Confectioners that used to sell sweets by weight.

Whatever happened to those old surgical stores that used to sell "french letters" as they were known, douches and hernia belts.
The window displays looked like torture chambers..........I was only a kid and they used to frighten the cr@p out of me

"One appears to have dropped one's monocle in the soufflee"

Why not visit the Festive Fayre section?

dremble wedge

There's a tobacconist near me that sells all manner of odd tobacco, pipes, cigarette holders, cigars and snuff!

I wonder how long it will last...

Fellwanderer

I actually saw someone smoking a pipe out in the street a couple of days ago - struck me as very unusual as I couldn't recall the last time. He must have been in his late twenties/early thirties.

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FELL

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Tony Pendrey

There seemed to be an endless variety of sweets when I was a kid.

I remember the weird ones. Spanish wood, tiger nuts and locust beans.

And sweet cigarettes, matches and Spanish Gold sweet tobacco. Ah yes - Get 'em young and they'll move on to Capstan Full Strength no trouble.

And I bet nobody sells those bottles of luminous (ie radioactive), paint anymore.

Biggest swiz was when Buster comic gave away a free packet of "spinach" as consumed by popeye. I rushed to the newsagent with visions of me punching the lights out of me bruvver.

Sadly it was just sherbert. Never got over that. A lifetime of regret and anguish, all for a cheap gimmick.

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

Chevyman

Yes, you don't see it much nowadays. I remember seeing women smoking pipes in rural Sweden as recently as the 90s

"One appears to have dropped one's monocle in the soufflee"

Why not visit the Festive Fayre section?

Steve Crook

They look wonderful, so that you get a mouthful of sulphur with the first drag

Steve

Steve Crook

There used to be one of those in the West End somewhere near Great Tichfield Street (North of Oxford Street). I did a summer job working in an office up there and I remember being terrified by most of the devices in their window

Steve

Windthrop

Brown and Polson Blancmange (not that you see Blancmange anywhere nowadays thankfully)

Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !

orpheum

tube of sherbert with a liquorice straw

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Chevyman

Vesta Curry
"Mikki" milk drinks
Ona erm .... family planning products
And thank goodness

"One appears to have dropped one's monocle in the soufflee"

Why not visit the Festive Fayre section?

billy bentley

Do they syill sell Vitalis, the men's hairdressing ? My old man was using about the same time Geoff Hurst was.