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From: "patricia salter" <>
Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:38:09 +0100
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Going back down memory lane, does anyone remember the White's fizzy drink
van coming round once a week, the winkle man and the knife grinder?
Patti



----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Sowden" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: Coop Tickets


> My God!!!! I have just remembered my mum's coop number 53865. I could
> NEVER remember that, it is ONLY JUST THIS MINUTE that I have remembered
> it!!
>
> Diane
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Caroline" <>
> To: "Diane Sowden" <>;
> <>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 3:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
>
>
>> I lived in Wanstead as a child and remember the Co-op van coming round.
>> We
>> would be sent to buy small items of grocery that Mum had forgotten and
>> woe
>> betide us if we forgot to quote our Co-op number (333064!!). My favourite
>> purchase was a tin of chocolate fingers !
>>
>> Bearman's in Leytonstone had one of those tube thingamys too I think. I
>> loved that store and used to get lost deliberately in it as they would
> give
>> me a biscuit in the office until my mother was found !
>>
>> Caroline
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Diane Sowden" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 2:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
>>
>>
>> >I do, I remember the coop shop in Hornchurch Essex UK having one of
> those.
>> > It used to frighten me when it went!!!!
>> >
>> > My mum used to shop at William's in Hornchurch Essex, and they gave
> little
>> > metal 'tickets' for her to save and have money off things. William's
> was
>> > a
>> > butcher shop (I think)? Does anyone else remember this shop?
>> >
>> > Diane
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Marine" <>
>> > To: <>
>> > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 2:42 PM
>> > Subject: Coop Tickets
>> >
>> >
>> >> As we are on memory lane do you remember in the coop giving the sales
>> > assistant your cash for purchases, and he/she put it in a little tub on
> a
>> > string which sent it across the shop to the cashier, or even in a
>> > little
>> > container which went up an air driven tube to heavens knows where.
>> >> Roger
>> >> Royal Marines
>> >> Member RMHS
>> >> Researching Copelin, Attrell, Reeves, Deacon & Pont
>> >>
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