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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months

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brb said:
To show how time changes, just in our lifetime, I doubt anyone not our age would know, but do you remember being able to buy 8 black jacks for One old pennny...and if you do, do you remember what use to be on the wrapper...and to think it was a company like Trebor that produced them.
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Was it anything like the pin badges you could collect from Robertson Jam/marmalade?
 
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Peej said:
Was it anything like the pin badges you could collect from Robertson Jam/marmalade?
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Yeah funnily when I looked up the black jacks, it mentioned Robertson's as well (not sure whether they were collectables). Can't say I ever took an interest or saved any of them, I thought the dolls were quite gross looking things. I used to like the Bazooka Joes...I can't remember if this was part of the wrapper or a separate piece of paper inside the wrapper...

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I'm sure you could collect them for free gifts, as in the example above, not that I ever did send off for anything, well I don't think I did anyway.
 
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brb said:
Yeah funnily when I looked up the black jacks, it mentioned Robertson's as well (not sure whether they were collectables). Can't say I ever took an interest or saved any of them, I thought the dolls were quite gross looking things. I used to like the Bazooka Joes...I can't remember if this was part of the wrapper or a separate piece of paper inside the wrapper...

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I'm sure you could collect them for free gifts, as in the example above, not that I ever did send off for anything, well I don't think I did anyway.
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Do you remember Jamboree Bags? If memory serves, you got a sweet, a joke, a crappy plastic toy, and a sherbert dip all in the one bag.
 
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Archers Road said:
Do you remember Jamboree Bags? If memory serves, you got a sweet, a joke, a crappy plastic toy, and a sherbert dip all in the one bag.
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Yes I do mate, I think your recollection of what was in it is correct. Looking back now, I can't for the life of me think why they were popular, but they were lol. Then I suppose that's like now and why people spent a fortune on that drink called Prime. That strange human trait of wanting something you don't need.
 
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Archers Road said:
Do you remember Jamboree Bags? If memory serves, you got a sweet, a joke, a crappy plastic toy, and a sherbert dip all in the one bag.
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We used to sell them ... my parents took over an off-licence business when I was about 3 years old - so 1963 - the old girl kept it going until I returned from Uni - most profitable part of the business was the sweets - shop was on a corner and one big window was just full of the big jars of mainly boiled sweets ... loads of names no longer made - Spangles - Spangles Old Fashioned - Aztec bars - Old Jamaica dark choc bars - candy and chocolate ciggies <laugh>
 
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FosseFilberto said:
We used to sell them ... my parents took over an off-licence business when I was about 3 years old - so 1963 - the old girl kept it going until I returned from Uni - most profitable part of the business was the sweets - shop was on a corner and one big window was just full of the big jars of mainly boiled sweets ... loads of names no longer made - Spangles - Spangles Old Fashioned - Aztec bars - Old Jamaica dark choc bars - candy and chocolate ciggies <laugh>
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The Old Jamaica dark chocolate is made under the Cadbury Bournville name now, along with the run and raisin version...

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