A chance reading of "Sweets, a history of candy" by Tim Richardson and a small addiction to buying old sweet tins blossomed into a fascination in the history of our age old confectionery industry and the nostalgia that surrounds it.

In an age where Britain has lost a lot of it's traditional industry to cheap imports and foreign takeovers the confectionery industry in Britain is quietly booming. Many manufacturers are still producing delicious traditional confectionery to century old recipes using traditional production methods and still making boiled sweets in copper pans over open fires.

We have a strict selection policy for our sweets. It is important to us that our sweets taste like you remember, and our customers in the sweet shop are very honest and forthright about this.

We have chosen our sweets from manufacturers with long histories in the confectionery industry, many of whom are surprisingly still family business's, for example, Ross's of Edinburgh and William Santus. And of course there are still companies synonymous with certain sweets. It can only be Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts, Bassett's Jelly Babies and Maynard's Wine Gums.