Sweet Memories

If only all sweet shops looked as enticing as Sweet Memories.
A lovely sweet shop with a colourful window display, Sweet Memories looks like the kind of shop you’d have stumbled across in the 50s or 60s. There’s a long wooden counter with old weighing scales perched on and behind that rows and rows of big plastic jars filled with boiled sweets, sour sweets, chewy sweets, gooey sweets and classic sweets. There’s also a few jars selling fudge, honeycomb and chocolate.
Like all good sweet shops, you can buy a quarter or knock yourself out and buy a whole jar of your favourite sweets. Can anyone lend me a few pounds? I think I need to stock up on cough candy.

This is a fairly traditional little sweet shop, but I have to agree with the previous reviewer: most of what’s for sale is not actually that old/​traditional. There are some sweets that probably were first made/​intervened a long time ago, but are still quite common even in big shops like Tesco and Asda.
But there is a wide selection, and you can buy as much or as little as you like since it’s done by weight. The walls of the shop are lined with various jars of sweets in all shapes, sizes, colours, and flavours.

It’s nice to find a shop like Sweet Memories, competing against the hundreds of stores stocking confectionary alongside dozens of other merchandise often rather cheap. Sweet Memories is attractive, however I must say it’s not very traditional, to me the name inspires images of a ‘ye olde sweete shoppe’ filled with old toffees and fudges and sweets from years and years ago, but really it’s just a sweet shop, much nicer than a newsagents but a sweet shop nonetheless. There were some old classics in stock. The shop is really clean and tidy, it’s a pleasant place to browse and clearly popular with locals as it was quite busy. I believe personalised gifts are available which is a nice idea for sugar loving friends and