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My pocket money was a farthing a fortnight. We used to go to Mrs Mallion's little shop and she'd have a strip of liquorice and tear it down in strips – and if there were two of us, we'd tear it up and have half each. She used to make her own sweets and we got four if we had a halfpenny. She used to screw up a piece of paper with four sweets in.