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Commercial world we live in

Posted by stan wears on 3/11/2009, 3:32 pm

Has anyone else noticed how commodiies are changing fast ? For example, I went into 3 different supermarkets to buy flowers and found they were all spray-dyed, and no smell. I went to a florist, and guess what, dyed again and very little smell.I may as well bought artificial ones.Also, I has anyone else noticed, when a product becomes popular and sells fast, say for example, Primula cheese spread with prawn, they take it off the shelves, never to be seen again! Maybe its my old age but I wish I could turn the clock back 50 years!

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Posted by Joyce on 4/11/2009, 3:46 pm, in reply to "Commercial world we live in"

I got a tube of Primula Cheese Spread with prawns a couple of months ago. Either in Home Bargains, Asda or Makro. Can't remember which one. Cremola pudding is no longer available. I used to love it. Or Frizettes I think they were called. They were made from powder into little rounds and fried. Can anyone remember them?

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Re: Commercial world we live in

Posted by Joyce on 4/11/2009, 3:51 pm, in reply to "Re: Commercial world we live in"

Just remembered, they were called Crestona Frizettes. So I googled it and on one site someone has put a home made recipe on for them.

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Flowers

Posted by Mike (site ed.) on 3/11/2009, 4:22 pm, in reply to "Commercial world we live in"

- serious question as I've never really taken any notice of the subject.

What sort of flowers could you have bought in November in the good old days before these artificial preservation techniques were invented.

There were no equivalent to today's big supermarkets back then. So if I'd gone into a little flower shop in Hebburn on say 2 Nov 1960, what sort of fresh flowers would have been available to me?

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Re: Flowers

Posted by Elizabeth on 3/11/2009, 10:59 pm, in reply to "Flowers"

Michaelmas daisies

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Re: Flowers

Posted by Barrie Mortimer on 3/11/2009, 5:02 pm, in reply to "Flowers"

Chrysanthemums, Mike. I used to go to the Grainger Market with me Mam to get flowers for wreaths, and chrysanths have always been funeral flowers to me.

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Re: Flowers

Posted by Sheila on 3/11/2009, 6:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Flowers"

Barrie, I agree with you. Both my parents died in the winter and I can never smell chrysanthemums without thinking of funereals.

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Re: Commercial world we live in

Posted by Barrie Mortimer on 3/11/2009, 3:51 pm, in reply to "Commercial world we live in"

Oh no, Stan. That would mean no computers and no Hebburn web site. We'd have to actually see each other and talk face to face!

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Posted by stan wears on 3/11/2009, 4:07 pm, in reply to "Re: Commercial world we live in"

Id still rather have me cheese spread than a computer !

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Posted by stan wears on 3/11/2009, 6:49 pm, in reply to "Re: Commercial world we live in"

The place to buy flowers in the Winter is Sarah Gaskin's in the Grainger Market. In Summer, she'd get them from local allotments in Gateshead, at a small price which made everyone happy, But - in Winter she'd get them from Holland and further afield.Strange, but her flowers you can smell a mile off.Her Grand-daughters run the business now and their flowers are the best. Anyway Mike, what have you noticed that has changed a lot?

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Posted by Barrie Mortimer on 4/11/2009, 5:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Commercial world we live in"

Stan,
You've just reminded me of where me mam used to get wreaths and flowers from in the Grainger Market - Sarah Gaskin's. Mind, this was in the late 40s - early 50s and we used to go to Newcastle by train. By the time we got up from the station to my Grandfather's fruiterer's and confectioner's shop on Station Road (John Tungate)the wires in the wreaths were digging into our fingers.

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Changes

Posted by Mike (site ed.) on 3/11/2009, 11:15 pm, in reply to "Re: Commercial world we live in"

I was just wondering if we've become so accustomed to the year round, ready availability of foodstuffs and flowers etc. that we've forgotten just how seasonal those commodities used to be.

I'm 60 next year, but I can't really remember any specifically flower shops in Hebburn when I was a kid. I guess any which were there would have been constrained to seasonal produce from this country and northern Europe. So that's what I was asking about.

Nowadays, we just expect supermarkets and even garages to sell a range of flowers throughout the year. The trade off is that these are 'preserved' and produced for appearance rather than scent.

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Baked Beans

Posted by Monica Sutherland on 3/11/2009, 10:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Commercial world we live in"

This is really weird,and don't think i am "flipping my lid," but i was going to ask on the board, is it just me or has the amount of beans, in a Heinz baked bean tin, been reduced? or maybe the tin size reduced. I am not a big fan of them, but occasionally have them and i am sure you don't get as many you did a few years ago.

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Posted by stan wears on 4/11/2009, 8:03 am, in reply to "Baked Beans"

Norman Danby used to be the florist in Hebburn as well as fruit & Veg.

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Posted by robbie canada on 4/11/2009, 1:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Baked Beans"

Stan you beet me to it i was just going to say what a bout the Danbys in Hartly burn ave i used to send to them (Into florist) for all of my flowers and i used to get good results

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Posted by J barnshaw on 4/11/2009, 4:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Baked Beans"

Danbie's fruit shops.
Robbie.I say shops,because I think they once had
three in Hebburn.And you should recall Liza Danby
an always immaculately dressed lady who worked in
one of them and was active in conservative politics without I believe ever becoming a
councillor.Was that shop opposite the Bentinct
not a Danby until it became a barbers? The same
shop was ran as a general dealers by my grandmother in the early years of the 20th
century.My old lady(Doris)used to point out an
upstairs window to me and say "that was my bedroom."
Another Hebburn fruit shop was Halls in Finchale
road ran by my cousin Sam.

Yours pintfully.
John.

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Re: Baked Beans

Posted by Malcolm Rickard on 5/11/2009, 11:21 am, in reply to "Re: Baked Beans"

Hi John,
Sam and Mary Hall were my uncle and aunty. My mother was Margaret Hall (peggy).I can remember my Mam's aunty Peggy and uncle Sammy Barnshaw and cousins Arthur and George. George died very young of an Asthma attack.

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Posted by Malcolm Rickard on 5/11/2009, 9:42 pm, in reply to "Re: Baked Beans"

Hi John
I did get mixed up with Ronnie. When Ronnie got married they moved into a flat down towards the colliery and heaven forbid i forgot about Audry. Yes our Harry lives in Hebburn with his wife Susan and two sons Daniel and Nathan. I shall be coming over next Christmas to see my two nephews for the first time. It will be the first time home in nearly thirty years, can't wait.

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Posted by j barnshaw on 8/11/2009, 6:23 pm, in reply to "Re: Baked Beans"

Hello Malcolm.
I didn't know you were still in Canada,and yes,you must be looking forward to
visiting your old town,and I am thinking that on
that occasion as well as seeing your brother after so long - would you like to meet some others of the Barnshaw family?If so I could
rustle a few up and arrange a get together.Did
you know that a chap called Keith Williams from
Hampshire whose wife's maiden name is Barnshaw has been researching the family for about 8 years and that Barnshaw is a place name called
Barnshaw Come Goostrey near Congleton in Chesire and there is still remnants of a Barnshaw Hall from which a Black Knight called Barnshaw sallied forth.When I first heard all this I demanded more respect from my wife being a descendent of aristocracy.
If you want to meet members of our extended family let me know your staying dates and I and
a cousin Tommy will phone around.

Yours pintfully
John.

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Posted by J barnshaw on 5/11/2009, 12:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Baked Beans"

Malcolm.How nice to hear from you.Your mother,
Meggie to most,was my full cousin.Her mother also Meggie,your grandmother, was my father's sister,and a more lovely natured and humorous
human being never lived.I was at your mother's
21st birthday party at which I saw my first
microphone and found out I had a voice like a
croaking frog.
I also sadly attended your mother's funeral
service in St Cuthberts.
I am in regular contact with Tommy another
cousin,son of Tommy,brother of my father and
your grandmother.I can recall the last occasion
I saw your old man and Harry your brother.It was
in 1957 at Leslie's football ground on the occasion of the presence of Ibbotson the world
mile record holder.We walked home together.
We walked home together.Is your Harry in Hebburn?
Your mother used to visit my old lady quite often.
Malcolm.You're a bit out with uncle Sammy's
family.There's no Arthur.Living are Ronnie and
Audry,and of course George died. We were all
together about a year ago on the occasion of
Tommy's daughter's 40th birthday.If someone
organised a Barnshaw reunion at Lands End I would get there.

Yours Pintfully
John.

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Flowers

Posted by Anne Elliott-Canada on 4/11/2009, 3:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Baked Beans"

Didnt Danyby's used to be in the newtown, inbetween the bank and Haytons the chemist's? or is my memory not as good as it used to was!!

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Posted by stan wears on 4/11/2009, 6:05 pm, in reply to "Flowers"

Anne. - You are right. The chemist was called Raymond Robert Francis Theodore Hayton. I remember his certificate hanging up in the shop. He used to sell his own laquer remover shampoo in the 1960's but had to take it off the market because it had not benn tested by the Royal Pharaceutical Society. He was a very clever man. On the Felling By-pass near the Black Bull,on the opposite side of the road there is a white house called Hayton House, so it could be his family

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Re: Flowers

Posted by Steve Hayton on 4/11/2009, 3:36 pm, in reply to "Flowers"

Interesting that, l wonder if that Hayton family was related to any part of mine??

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