Hi I ask my Dad about "Express Toffee" - but he said as a child in 1930's going to Porthill from Tunstall was like going to another world - I guess people did not travel about as much as we do today! But he does remember "Old Mother Plant's" toffee (made in Tunstall??) and standing at a shop window drooling over the bars through the window. The shop was called "Bough's" and he remembers it from mid 1920's to late 1930's. It was on the corner of Lower Henry Street and the short street connecting it with Henry Street proper. It was a grocers selling medicines, sweets and coal as well. Old Mrs Bough he remembers well and her daughter who took over the shop, and the grandchildren growing up. He remembers Old Mrs Brough sitting in the shop as her legs were not too good and saving pennies and a yound lad from Aug to Christmas to buy liquorice allsorts (he still has the tin!) My father is 84 in a few days and can walk me round Old Tunstall from the map in his head - I have an old map and he can navigate me, over the phone, around these places. So no luck with Mr Knapper, but the question elicited a lovely memory from my Dad! Janet Howell www.risinsun.co.uk Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0 - Release Date: 21/11/02 ----- Original Message ----- From: "L K Knapper" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 9:36 AM Subject: [Pots] KNAPPER family > Good Morning Listers > > I just wonder whether anyone has knowledge of a sweet factory which produced confectionary between the two world wars under the name of "Express Toffees". It was situated at Porthill S.O.T had its own railway siding and was owned by my grandfather Herbert Knapper. > Regards > Leon Knapper > > > ==== ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES Mailing List ==== > The List for the Pottery Towns of the Ancient County of Staffordshire > > >