I READ with great interest Chris Titley's story of the "sweet rush" and the end of food rationing in 1953-54.
From 1947 to 1954 I was one of the lucky kids who went to Castlegate Primary School.
Backing on to the playground was Craven's sweet factory, so rationing never affected our supply of boiled sweets.
The women gave us a constant supply through the window on to our playground.
No doubt we were one of the few that suffered with tooth decay in the mid- Fifties.
J A Rhodes,
Mill Rise,
Northallerton.
Updated: 11:05 Friday, February 07, 2003
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