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Christmas Shopping, 1950s

Some items you might have bought in the run up to Christmas in the early 1950s:

• Fowler's or McFie's black treacle for the Christmas pudding and cake
• Epicure pickled walnuts, 10oz cost 1s 9d
• Sunpat salted almonds, a 1lb tin cost 7s
• Reckitt's Bath Joys (bathcubes, scented lavender, pine and bouquet) at 5d a pack
• Saratoga potato crisps, a three quarter ounce packet cost 3d
• Monk & Glass custard powder at 1s 7d
• Tinned cranberries, 'Dutch Glory' or Marila (Czech) brands
• Camden peppermints at 6d

... and some long lost brands

• Scrubbs cloudy ammonia
• Drim and Seasy cleaners
• Dimp anti-midge cream
• Grox gravy powder
• Lav Dust lavatory cleaner
• Lingfo Fizz lemonade crystals
• Woof dog food
• Pom potato powder
• Drene shampoo
• Hermes and St George's Best toilet rolls
• Yerand's Gravo-Thik gravy powder

Information from a Joseph Kingham price list, 1952. Joseph Kingham and Sons Ltd were Provision and General Produce Merchants of 40a Kew Bridge Road, Brentford.

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Published December 2010