Who Remembers these

[jaysay]

Green Shield Stamps&
Back in the 60s and 70s Green Shield Stamps were all the rage up and down GB did you collect them and to what extent, Myself I used to have books and books of the things, can remember tramping round garages to find who was giving quadruple stamps and when you were tanking up with a 40 gallon Bedford TK that was a hell of a lot of stamps

[Greeny]

My stars you are going back some. I also remember cigarette tokens you could exchange for goods once you had collected thousands of them.

[pallyman]

My dad used to work at the greyhound garage and every year we used to go to Blackpool to spend them, we bought loads of stuff, and this was just with the stamps customers told him to keep as they couldn't be botherd with them.

[shillelagh]

my mum did ... can remember when we were doing a clear out of my dads desk .. we found a few of the books with stamps in .. she also saved the embassy fags tokens ...

[cashman]

Me mam did, have to say i never bothered wi em, yeh couldn't spend em in pubs.

[Guinness]

Bought my first guitar with 14 books..got it from the green shield shop in Preston, kinda like an Argos type place if I recall correctly. Bloke near us used to buy fag coupons at 2s per 100, just enough for a pack of players No.10 (sweepings up) and a box of matches.

[maxthecollie]

My dad worked at Hillock Vale Motors in Burnley Road and when customers did not want the stamps they used to give them to him .He soon filled a book.The good old days 4 gallon for a pound.

[susie123]

Still got a book or two in a drawer somewhere.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Greeny

My stars you are going back some. I also remember cigarette tokens you could exchange for goods once you had collected thousands of them.

I think Embassy were one of the main ciggy's in that department, my mate used to save um, I was like cashy you couldn't spend um on beer so didn't bother.

[jaysay]

When I worked at shopfitters, green shield were like a trading commodity, I can remember one Christmas do at Enfield Cricket Club one of the prizes for the raffle was a 100 books of green shield stamps

[JCB]

Originally Posted by jaysay

I think Embassy were one of the main ciggy's in that department

And Kensitas were another one , Jaysay .

[Margaret Pilkington]

cups and saucers from Black and Green's leaf tea...Plastic tulips from Daz......strings of (fake)pearls from Acdo.
If it wasn't for the cups and saucers from the tea coupons we'd have been drinking out of jam jars...or chipped cups from J.W Bridges at the corner of Church St...now that IS going back a long way

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

my mum did ... can remember when we were doing a clear out of my dads desk .. we found a few of the books with stamps in .. she also saved the embassy fags tokens ...

Same here Jen, my mum collected Green Shield stamps and Embassy tokens -till she gave up smoking when I was 10!

[Less]

A friend of mine was a radio officer in the Merchant navy, he saved embassy coupons.
One time while on a night out with friends in Brazil, he was sat at a bar counting his coupons when a lady of the night came over to him and asked what country that money comes from, it's from the bank of embassy he replied, he was counting quite a stack of vouchers valued at 10, she looked thoughtful (perhaps trying to work out the exchange rate), then said, I will be yours for the night if you pay me forty embassys.
He claims to have declined the offer, stating that their pimps protect the girls with guns over there, he didn't fancy his chances if she had discovered what they really were.

[Balbus]

For some reason, people still buy them on ebay.