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From: "patricia salter" <>
Subject: Re: @WL Re: Coop Tickets
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:27:07 +0100
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I went to Hamleys with my daughter a few years ago and it seemed so small,
not the big cavernous place I remembered from my childhood, rather spoiled
the memories for me actually. I suppose when one is little, everything
seems so much bigger than it really was. I do remember that goo that you
blew up, cant remember what it was called though, and there was some kind of
sticky stuff (not quite plasticine) that you could make into little buds and
put them on sticks to make flowers with. Who remembers sitting in the
playground at school playing 5 stones or pick up sticks? I wonder if kids
still do that today, I kind of doubt it though, much too dangerous playing
with sticks and stones!
Patti




----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin ADAMS" <>
To: "patricia salter" <>;
<>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: @WL Re: Coop Tickets


> Oh Patti, Hamleys was so good I still have a photo of me sitting on Father
> Christmas' lap at Hamleys. Wouldn't be allowed now. Also a sort of goo
> that
> you blew up through a straw to make unburstable baloons, sort of yellowish
> substance, I can still smell that stuff
> Martin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "patricia salter" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 7:40 PM
> Subject: @WL Re: Coop Tickets
>
>
>> Oh joy - Gamages, oh yes I remember it so well, every Christmas a trip to
>> see Father Christmas and decide what toys I wanted in my pillowcase
> (forget
>> tiny stockings), it was like an Aladdins cave of goodies, much more fun
> than
>> Hamleys. My mother had to keep me on a lead otherwise I disappeared
>> amongst the treasures never to be found again.
>> Patti
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Songbird" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 4:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
>>
>>
>> > Don't know the answer to that one. I only remember, with sorrow,
>> > that it had closed down.
>> > Photo on
>> > http://www.milesfaster.co.uk/gallery/kensington-high-street/barke
>> > rs-of-kensington.htm
>> > It's now known, hideously, as "Barker's Arcade" Thank God and
>> > Westminster Planning that the building wasn't demolished........
>> > Who remembers "Gamages" of Holborn? When I take my grandchildren
>> > to see Father Christmas I think back, with nostalgia, to the
>> > Father Christmas show in Gamages. Still never seen a better one
>> > or a better Toy Shop.
>> > Josi
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "patricia salter" <>
>> > To: <>
>> > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 3:44 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
>> >
>> >
>> > : Talking about Barkers of Kensington, wasnt that the department
>> > store that
>> > : became my favourite of all time, Biba, the fashion emporium to
>> > beat all
>> > : fashion emporiums, and I seem to remember that somewhere in
>> > that black
>> > : interior those old money tubes still whizzed around, or am I
>> > mistaken?
>> > : Patti
>> > :
>> > :
>> > :
>> > : ----- Original Message -----
>> > : From: "Songbird" <>
>> > : To: <>
>> > : Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 2:18 PM
>> > : Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
>> > :
>> > :
>> > : > Ourt fizzies were delivered by Neptune! Will I ever forget
>> > the
>> > : > name of the supplier? No.
>> > : > Has Neptune called today? we used to ask...........
>> > : > Barkers of Kensington used to have overhead wires on which
>> > was
>> > : > suspended a carrier for cash. The cashier sat high up in a
>> > pulpit
>> > : > affair, in the centre of the shop. The carriers whizzed back
>> > and
>> > : > forth at a rate of knots.
>> > : > The tube version is used today, in Tesco's..........
>> > : > Winkles, etc.Yuck!
>> > : > The Walls "Stop me and buy one" man would come our driveway
>> > to
>> > : > sell us ice cream through the window.
>> > : > Ah! Those were the days :0(
>> > : > I was a lot younger! :0)
>> > : > Nostalgia bound Josi
>> > : >
>> > : > ----- Original Message -----
>> > : > From: "patricia salter" <>
>> > : > To: <>
>> > : > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:57 AM
>> > : > Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
>> > : >
>> > : >
>> > : > : You're right, I was wrong, it wasnt White's fizzy drinks it
>> > was
>> > : > Corona, getting my fizzies all mixed up - signs of a
>> > befuddled
>> > : > brain :-) No winkle man, poor you, you dont know what you
>> > : > missed - fresh winkles, cockles, shrimps and mussels, yum
>> > yum,
>> > : > for tea on a Sunday. Or failing that, a trip down to Lee on
>> > Sea
>> > : > to sit on the sea wall eating them freshly gathered.
>> > : > : Patti
>> > : > :
>> > : > :
>> > : > : ----- Original Message -----
>> > : > : From:
>> > : > : To: ;
>> > : > : Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 9:23 PM
>> > : > : Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
>> > : > :
>> > : > :
>> > : > : In a message dated 25/09/2004 18:38:36 GMT Standard Time,
>> > : > writes:
>> > : > : 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
>> > : > :
>> > : > : Well, I recall the Corona man (in Nottingham, early
>> > 1950s)
>> > : > bringing soft drinks. A knife grinder called once, in the
>> > late
>> > : > 1960s or possibly even 1970s (Kings Lynn, Norfolk). No winkle
>> > man
>> > : > though as far as I recall
>> > : > :
>> > : > : --
>> > : > :
>> > : > : Mike Stone - Peterborough, England
>> > : > :
>> > : > : For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our
>> > : > fathers' God.
>> > : > : Though hast made thy children mighty By the touch of the
>> > : > mountain sod.
>> > : > : Thou hast led thy chosen Israel To freedom's last abode
>> > : > : For the strength of the hills we bless thee Our God, our
>> > : > fathers God.
>> > : > :
>> > : >
>> > : >
>> > : >
>> > :
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