Perhaps, we suggested, our mystery building was a Beechwood out-house – its nakedness without its rendering reveals how it once had a shapely arch facing onto Grange Road, so could it have been a coach-house?

These old-school mints were a far cry from our modern-day humbugsand spearmint chews, as they were in the form of pellets made from frankincense, myrrh (not gold though), and cinnamon. These core ingredients were mixed up and then boiled with honey, all of which sounds quite pleasant, doesn't it?We hope you find what you are looking for, we will keep adding lines to the range and hope you keep on coming to buy your favourite sweets from us. You are buying 1 x 120g bag but a discount is available to buy a full box of 12 (choose from the option menu). Atrue old fashioned, quality, boiled sweet in a gift tin. A great gift for anyone with a sweet tooth! Pat Surtees of Darlington responded by sending a picture of a very similar slender bullet that she has with a First World War provenance. ToffeeWorld | Toffee Heaven Ltd Cannot Guarantee The Accuracy Of These Ingredients, Dietary & Nutritional information provided.

My husband and I did a Flanders battlefields tour last year to follow up information we had about my grandmother's first husband, John Smith, who died near Ypres in 1917 – we found his name on the Menin gate,” she said. Ingredients: Sugar, glucose syrup, condensed full cream milk , hydrogenated palm kernel oil, salt, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavourings, colours; anthocyanins E163 She also recalls visiting her great-uncle’s home, York House. “My mother took me there at Christmases, and the out-building was used for storage, because they did a lot of delivering around the area, and perhaps as a shop,” she says. Like the Greeks, the Romans added mint in their baths. They also gave it to slaves in the form of a tonic by mixing it with barley water. Wealthy Romans crowned themselves with mint leaves during feasts and they were even used in some buildings as a cleaning agent to give floors a pleasing scent. These sweets are approx 1.7cm's long by 1.5cm's wide by 1.5cm's deep and weigh approx 5.5g-7.5g per sweet with an average of 6g giving you approx 15-18 sweets per 113g weigh out bag.

The Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans are known for their wisdom, innovation, industriousness, and organisational skills. In general, they’re also considered clean civilisations due to their focus on bathing and personal hygiene. As for people who lived in Medieval times… well, they weren’t quite as nostril-friendly. Meanwhile, the superpowers contained within a single mint leaf continued to hold sway. The French would make bouquets of mint and St John’s Wort to scare off evil spirits, whereas the English said that if you found a flowering mint plant on Midsummer’s Day you’d be happy forever. Blimey. LAST week, we were stumbling around the floodplain of Neasham in search of evidence of the army camp and rifle range that was there during the First and Second world wars. We carried a picture of a couple of the thousands of bullets which generations of local people have retrieved from the bank that is behind where the butts stood.