A walk down Memory Lane

At Hallowe’en we got apples and nuts and maybe we would have tried to dress up.

We did not get much compared to today, but I remember getting an orange once... and you got oranges at Christmas too.

I think you got more fruit back then than you do now. Children get lots of sweets now.

I remember there was a shop near us, but they did not keep sweets... Warkes was the name of the shop owners, and I remember you got coupons. Sweets were on the coupons during the war and they did not I don’t think they bothered much with sweets, so as a child I did not get very many sweets, but I did love getting fruit.

You were surprised when you got sweets. I remember when I did get sweets they were caramels or chocolate. Cadbury’s was one I remember.

There used to be one called Crest and it was like a bar and I remember it had a nice centre and was made with nuts.

When I was little we used to cycle to Eglinton bank - we used to go to the Banks of the Foyle - and that was out day out. Sometimes we walked it, it was a good mile-and-a-half to it down the road. I remember getting sweets and some of them were about six pence a quarter [pound weight], and we thought that was dear.