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Originally Posted by yerself
Definitely Stocks next door to Bowdy's. People I know (not that I was one of them, you understand) used to pinch bottles of pop off the wagons and tear off accross the road into the ruins of the old Stanley ground. If you were brave enough and had time you could climb on to the wagon and reach the bottles of Bulmer's Woodpecker cider which were always in the middle surrounded by the bottles of sarsaparilla, irn bru and other soft drinks. (So I'm told)
Stockley's the toffee manufacturers, now in the Ossy Mills complex, were in Church, I believe.
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I was.........hehehehehehe.
We would hide over the wall between sheeps coates Farm and the houses on Willows Lane and wait for the little bedford flatback. Then we would go over the top and grab what we could.