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From: "Diane Sowden" <>
Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:19:43 +0100
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I don't remember the winkle man and the knife grinder, but I DO remember the
White's fizzy drink van coming round.#

Diane
----- Original Message -----
From: "patricia salter" <>
To: "Diane Sowden" <>;
<>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: Coop Tickets


> 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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