Retro Noddy Sweet Shop

[Maureen1954]

Wow who had one of these as a child?? I know I did and they cost about 6d or 1 Shilling I think and we where very lucky at Christmas time to get one.

They are a bit dearer now tho

Click on the link and look at the images there are a few when you scroll down the page

http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_trks ... &_from=R40

[poddys]

The image pops up for a fraction of a second for me, then it says it can't find anything that matches. Weird.
I think I remember these though, but it was a loooooong time ago...

[pete9012S]

Try scrolling down to the very bottom of the page????

[Tony Summerfield]

I wonder whether people realise that things like this can be found in the Cave! Another bit that nobody ever looks at!!

http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... Sweet+Shop" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Moonraker]

Maybe you should move on, Tony, to somewhere much more interesting, it would seem. Ebay, for instance?

[Katharine]

I hope Tony never closes his cave, I find it very useful to dip into from time to time. I've used it this week in fact. Although I did experience a few problems. I was trying to look up the Pink Whistle books to see which ones I am missing, and for some reason it would only bring up the tapes. In the end, I had to look up the Dean Series and check the titles out that way. Still, I managed to find what I was looking for, so that's the main thing.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Did you put the whole book title into "Search", Katharine? Sometimes it can cause a problem if you do that and inadvertently miss/insert a hyphen, exclamation mark or some other little feature, because what you typed in the search box doesn't match the title in the Cave exactly. Searching for a key word, e.g. "whistle", is often more successful.

[Tony Summerfield]

There is a problem here, Katharine, and it occurs with some of the short story titles as well. The 'search' in the Cave is very precise and I would guess that you entered 'Pinkwhistle', whilst most of the books have him hyphenated as 'Pink-Whistle'. Jigsaws and records and some later stories dropped the hyphen, but if you put back the hyphenated version in search, you will get a veritable birthday present of entries!

[Katharine]

Thanks for the advice Tony, I managed to look up the book without any problems this morning, I think possibly I used a space instead of a hyphen between the two words last time I looked.

[Viv of Ginger Pop]

Er - is that Atora suet in the sweet shop set

http://www.atora.co.uk/aboutus/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I once watched a programme on shops that had lost their way, and featured a sweet shop that had ended up with packs of rat poison in the window

Viv

[Maureen1954]

Sorry Tony I was only adding some extra pics of the sweet shop and I shou;d of mentioned the "Cave " as well as thats where I normally go first and then search the net etc etc

Cheers and Gingerbeers

Maureen

[Maureen1954]

Er - is that Atora suet in the sweet shop set

http://www.atora.co.uk/aboutus/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I dont know Viv its a bit fuzzy if you mean the little box on the top right hand side yes???

[Viv of Ginger Pop]

er - I was looking bottom left!

Viv

[Julie2owlsdene]

I used to have a sweet shop with those little glass jars the same as the Noddy one, but it wasn't a Noddy Sweet Shop.

[Daisy]

It must be a grocer's shop as well. Sugar and custard powder are well displayed. I can't identify the item in the bottom right corner though.