when the co.op was your main stores and not a small corner shop

and watching the vacum tube delivery system shooting off your divvy !! ooh err that sounds rude !!:eek:

I still remember my parent’s co-op number – 18204!

Whitbread Tankard and Watneys Red Barrel – both 2 bob/pint!

Blackjacks – 4 for a penny!

Catching a train, tube and bus to London Airport and seeing what was on the North side before walking through the pedestrian tunnel to the central area and spending the rest of the day on the Queens Building.

Seeing all those lovely large piston engined aircraft – Super Connies, Stratocruisers, DC3’s, DC6’s, DC7’s Convair 240/340/440, Avia 14’s, etc, etc.

Not to mention loads of Viscounts and the early jets such as the Comet, Boeing 707 and the TU-104.

Also all those operational RAF/USAF airfield scattered all over East Anglia all full of interesting types, such as Wethersfield (F100’s), Oakington (Varsities), Stradishall (Hunters), West Malling (Javelins), Waterbeach (Javelins), Wattisham (Lightnings), Alconbury (B66’s), Woodbridge & Bentwaters (F101’s), to name but a few…..

I still have an unmade Airfix Bristol Superfreighter and a Frog Dragon Rapide. Perhaps it’s time I made them?

Nooooo!

Airfix are little polythene bags with a cardboard header, costing 2/- in Woollies, exactly four times the cost of a choccy bar. So don’t buy chocolate for a week and you could afford your own Spitfire.

Moggy

They were four times the cost of a Cadburys choccy bar. However if you bought a Woolies choccy bar, they were six times the price! Mind you Woolies chocolate was awful!