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Tip Tops were a long plastic tube filled with various fruit flavoured drinks and then frozen. I believe the company who manufactured them itself was called Tip Tops. It was almost impossible to open them without using your teeth or by cutting them with a knife or scissors. They were all the rage amongst children in the 1960's and 70's. I never saw a child with one, now I think of it, after the early 1980's. Maybe I just didn't look hard enough...

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  • Anonymous user
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    Just found a nice TIP TOP carton so listed on ebay. I found in my loft. Thought it might be useful as a film prop or something... It has all the details of Tunnel road etc...
  • Anonymous user
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    The Tip Top factory was on Tunnel Road, Hill Top, West Bromwich. If you travel on the Wolverhampton to Birmingham Tram you actually pass under the factory, there was a chimney next to the factory built so that the smoke and steam on the GWR line could escape rather than fill the tunnel - where the road gets it's name from obviously. I used to walk past the factory every day to and from my primary school. We also had a factory visit once about 1968 or 69.
  • Anonymous user
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    I came across this while searching for a picture of Tip Tops. In about 1974 we went to Majorca on holiday to a hotel and met the ex owners of Tip Top in Dudley. Smashing couple who we nick named the Duke and Dutchess as they were obviously posher then us.. I was 14 and had three older brothers. A great week spent with them. Please dont write and say it couldnt be them. This would spoil happy memories..
    • Anonymous user
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      Wow!! As a child I remember meeting them at a hotel in Spain wonder if this is the same place?
  • Anonymous user
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    Yes, Burt woolston was owner etc of factory. He lived in Priory road Dudley. Drove a blue Ford Zodiac.
    • Anonymous user
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      Bert woolston was my grandfather and I remember my visits to his house on priory road fondly! Can't remember his car though! Thank you for this memory x
  • Anonymous user
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    Just dig up part of a wrapper for one of these. It's in remarkable condition considering it must be 50 years old. The white text is clearly legible, price was 2d and on the back it says, "CRYSTALLIZED CONFECTIONS, TUNNEL ROAD, HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, TEL. WEDNESBURY 1416."
  • Anonymous user
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    Yeah and mojos sherbet dips spangles to name a few was just googling and stumbled on this site n low n behold my name sake Michael Johnson is a fledged conosuer of all things wham bar esque !
  • Anonymous user
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    We used to call them super sids and they were 5p each out the corner shop freezer! Does anybody else remember them as super sids my oh will not believe me x
  • CrustyDustyFusty
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    Blue only... and never orange. Blue was exotic (Raspberry?) and Red was cherry... and if in biting the seal off the top you didn't open the tube you were spitting threads of placcy for ever!
  • Anonymous user
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    Tip tops are yucky they are cola cube and banana and marshmallow
  • Anonymous user
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    Tip tops in a tube used to be produced in hill top West Bromwich the factory used to back onto the railway line.
    • Anonymous user
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      You are correct, my granddad and his business partner had something to do with the creation of them . I can't remember the exact details but my dad told me.
      • Anonymous user
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        Hi my grandfather was a partner of tiptops! As far as I've learnt he had 2 other partners! So wow lovely to meet you

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