Any smokers remember Tobacconist on Surrey street?

[mikebatty 10]

Sylvesters on Surrey street had just about every ciggy you could think of . We used to buy 20 of the most unheard of cigs and share them out - that was until someone bought a packet of herbal cigs one morning - They stank the whole place out . As a none smoker for the last few years I would suggest them as a solution to stopping .

[Manxdeedah 10]

"Ducky" Sylvester lived two doors up from me in Froggatt village Derbyshire in 40s and 50s. I'd be about 8 or 9 when he gave me an old golf club and some golf balls to play with. I was playing about in an adjacent field and promptly hit a ball which went straight through his front window.

The golf club and balls were confiscated..........................

[YOYO s2 10]

Dont forget THe Snuff Box on Norfolk street end of Norfolk Row

[PCPLOD178 10]

I certainly do. The lovely aroma from it could be smelled outside. The shopkeeper acquired for me a rolling tobacco called Town Tavern from Bristol. I soaked it in rum with a small piece of orange in to keep it moist, rolled it in Liquorice paper and the result was a smoke like no other. Next door but one or two was a specialist pen shop from where I treated myself to a silver fountain pen. Sheffield was a smashing place in those days, the late 50's and 60's, with shops the like of which we will never see again such as Davys around the corner in Fargate. The aroma of fresh coffee being ground could be detected as far as Church St. and Coles Corner. The City was populated by 99.999999% good hard working honest folk when I was a beat bobby, and I must say that it was a privilege to know lots of them. The City Fathers cared about preserving the heritage of the City, that was until Soviet inspired austerity took over. I haven't been back for over thirty years, and I am told that I wouldn't recognise the place or the people these days.

P.C.Plod178

[Nagel 10]

The specialist pen shop is still there, is it not?

[Grappler 12]

The specialist pen shop is still there, is it not?

 

Yes it is.

[mikeG 16]

Used to visit the tobacconists Saturday mornings to buy 'Blue Book'. This packet contained 5 different brands of cigarette. Black Russian, Turkish, French and a couple of others possibly ordinary English and American. It was a long time ago.

[PCPLOD178 10]

Used to visit the tobacconists Saturday mornings to buy 'Blue Book'. This packet contained 5 different brands of cigarette. Black Russian, Turkish, French and a couple of others possibly ordinary English and American. It was a long time ago.

 

Golden days.

[JACK HEWITT 10]

After giving Her Majesty some pleasure on my release in the middle 70s I went into Sylvestors to try and obtain some rolling tobacco named Black Bell the northern one or Brown Beauty southern brand I was infrormed that both brands could only be obtained through government sorces Goldern Verginia had to do until Sylvestors made me my own formula made with different blends of shag tobaco.

[hillsbro 32]

I gave up smoking when I left school, but Sylvester's was the only shop I knew that sold Wills' Passing Clouds. They were mild, oval in cross-section instead of round - and expensive (when Park Drive were 1s.9d for 20, Passing Clouds were 4s.6d). At the daily "smokers' meeting" behind the bike shed I'd casually open a packet as if it was my regular smoke, to see all the wide-eyed looks..

[andrejuan 10]

How times have changed !!

 

I don't know of any tobacconist shops left now ??? But I know there are

quite a few "vaping" shops around.

 

Will our grandkids be having this conversation in years to come.....

 

"Does anyone remember the electric ciggy shops, we used to be able to

buy liquid nicotine to vaporise in electric pens. The one in town had a Greggs

next door where you could buy hot sausage rolls, happy days"

 

 

I prefer the recollections posted in this thread to be honest

[Alcoblog 10]

Oooh ... I'd forgotten about Sylvester's 'til I saw this thread!

I used to go in there every day on my way to art college in the late 70's for Sobranie cocktails ... wouldn't smoke anything else! (Black Russian at a push)