Your Memories

Rosemary Skinner

Jap Desserts

Jap Desserts the square coconutty flavoured sweets were lovely.

Teresa B

Banjo

Banjo chocolate bar (made by Mars) sadly disappeared in the 80s. Still remember the jingle to this day:- Banjo, Banjo, Banjo is brand new, light and crispy wafer and roast nut flavour too!

Beth Curtis-Clarke

Caramac

Used to steal caramacs from the local shop :)

Susan Tuerk

Candy

Enjoying your candy on thanksgiving holiday in London.

Penny Madden

Halfpenny Sweets

The very long walk home from school, starting off with a trip to the sweet shop for penny and halfpenny sweets - Mojos, Sherbert and Lolly, chocolate mice. They made the journey so much more easy....

Alyson Newis-Edwards

Sunset Bar

Walking along the beach in the Autumn twilight, many moons ago; younger sister and self with a HUGE (or so they seemed!) Sunset Bar each, bought by our indulgent father from the seafront newsagent. 3 colours and flavours of sherbet-infused fruity chewiness, mixed! Total joy!

Dhaval Shah

Fudge and Toffee

Sweeeeeet memory with fudge & toffee.

Malu Whittle

Sugar Mice

Your lovely sugar mice taste exactly the same as a sweet I used to have in Brasil when I was a child. I really go back to my childhood every time I eat them! We visited your Covent Garden branch today and stocked up with some delicious treats. The gorgeous chocolate smell and your wonderful sales assistants always make every visit such a special one!

Lucy Manley

Life is sweet

After getting your book life is sweet, every sunday afternoon to keep my nephew and neice amused we make one of your recipies for their mummy and daddy.

Richard Lowe

Blackcurrant Eclair

The sweet I remember as a lad was a Blackcurrant Eclair. My mother always bought a quarter when we passed Medcalf's in Harrow and I was allowed the odd one now and then to suppliment my bag of mixed nibbles. They were just like Chocolate Eclairs but the middles was sticky, runny blackcurrant. Totally delicious but sadly I haven't seen them for donkey's years, nor have I been able to find anyone else who remembers them! Oh how I wish someone would make them again.

Terence Frisch

Butter drops

Parkinson butter drops in a circular tin.

Judi Lowe

Fruit Jellies

Real fruit jellies and Edinburgh rock.

Teresa Hilliard

Spangles

Spangles, which I believe can no longer be sourced. Also bazooka bubble gum.

Candida Nichols

Chocolate bar

Dark chocolate bar with peppermint cream.

Julie Zalesny

Mints

Jubilee red whitre and blue mints for the Queens jubilee in 1977.

Clive Greenwood

Gums and jellies

Gums and jellies. Thank you.

Jane Moore

Mint Cracknell

This site is so lovely. I've just bought the book from Waterstones! As for sweet memories, I have to agree with John Harold about the Mint Cracknell. It was one of my favourites and came in a 'Bounty like' cardboard tray. It seems like all my favourites are discontinued. Toffee Treets (correct spelling) with the hard shell, Banjo (formerly Trophy) and Counters in the white bag with a different animal on the front. They have made a comeback but just not quite the same! So pleased to see coconut tobacco, my friend Annette's favourite when we were children. Happy days! x

Gill Duckwith

Chocolate mice

As a child I used to regularly visit the local sweet shop, hidden in the back of an arcade in my home town. All around were clear jars, full of wonder and yummies! With out fail on every visit I would buy something, my favourite being little white chocolate mice (licking lips!). I miss that old place, news agents just don't do it for me!

Zoe Smith

Toffee lollies

I remember this scrummy little round toffee lollies, like a Werthers on a stick!

Kim Gallagher

Gummi Coca Colas

Gummi Coca Colas in Germany. Black, salty licorice. Bubblegum from my grandparents' grocery store that was so sugary, it was grainy.

Joanna Vowles

Ginger chocolate

The family always gave my grandmother Terry's hard centres - the ginger chocolate being her favourite. Also the orange and lemon slices were what we could afford with our pocket money - a penny a time?

Kathleen Taylor

Aniseed balls

Aniseed balls, flying saucers filled with sherbet

Andi Hooper

Long red licorish

Long red licorish (firemen's hose). I started at one end, my dog started at the other!

Max Harwood

Chocolate frogs

My sweet memory is the harry potter chocolate frogs they used to sell in shops and sewwtshops.

Stine Frederiksen

Love and kisses

Thank you!

John Harold

Mint Cracknel

I remember loving Mint Cracknel as a kid. I used to look forward to visiting our local sweet shop for Alamo Bars, sweet peanuts and Mint Cracknel. I can still remember the colour of the green filling, the strong minty taste and the texture of the cracknel as I bit it. I'd give my right arm to taste one again!

Liz Baker

Sugar Mice

My memories are of Sugar Mice, nibbling their noses after family had been back to UK, and Pebbles, bought from sweet shops in seaside towns on visits, sucked to reveal their layers.

John Harold

Mint Cracknel

Judith Hardisty

Sugar peanuts

Small sugar peanuts just like sugered almonds but peanuts. Loved them on way to school.

Hilary Robinson

Ducks, New Potatoes and Green Peas

Walking up the road, clutching my (old)pennies and buying a quarter of 'Ducks, New Potatoes and Green Peas' from the sweet shop. Don't know how long they were on sale but, apart from my family, I've never met anyone else who remembers them!

Aimee Allard

Flying saucers

Hi, I recently went into Hope and Greenwood and I bought some flying saucers. They were lovely, thank you!

Carolann Keith

Scottish sweetie shop

Living in ruralScotland, me and my brother were subject to the scottish sweetie shop, sports mixtures, lucky tatties (nougat covered in cinnamon) strange toffees with plastic small toys in them, lots of toffee stuff with nuts or honeycomb in them and of course bon bons.

Deana Allcock

Bon Bons

I remember when I used to go to school, my friend used to knock for me and we would then meet other friends and all go to the sweet shop and buy a quarter of something, my favourite was shrimps and strawberry bon bons, this was my second breakfast of the day, was lovely. I love your shop in Covent Garden its like being a child again with no fillings!

Helen Blachford

Galaxy Counters

I love your shop in Covent Garden! I miss Galaxy Counters though - I wish they would come back they remind of summer holidays reading Famous Five and Secret Seven books with lashings and lashings of lemonade!

Sarah Barcessat

Jelly sweets

I remember my mum picking me up from school with jelly sweets which were encased in a mould.

Amanda Brewer

Love love love your shop

I was a spoilt little girl with a lovely uncle who took me to the Old Village Sweet Shop in Ruislip many a Saturday, sherbet pips, flying saucers, rolla cola balls, lemon bon bons,cough candy, REAL aniseed balls, teeth, mice, you name 'em I had 2oz of them!! My habit continued at senior schools where I was a regular at May's sweet shop. May's viscious husband policed the door whilst a hundred (I kid you not) of us tried to squeeze in at once after school. My all time favourite sweetie moment though was on a school trip, we were all lauging so hard because Marina fell off her seat in the mini bus and began to choke on her 'chineapple punk' as she mispronounced it, takes me back every time I see them...

Theodore Theodorou

I Love Sweets

Well, my whole family can say it, I Love Sweets! Maybe a bit too much. But don't worry I do lots of exercise like karate (I'm nearly a black belt). I am 10 years old and I was born on the 23rd of May 1998. (It's nearly my birthday). I live on 7 plough lane.

I love hope and greenwood it's my favourite shop! My favourite sweets are the giant strawberries or the really big fizzy dip pack. I am an artist (If I say so myself) and I draw loads of pictures of sweets. I wanted to scan one of my favourite drawings to show you but my scanner wasn't working.

I hope you find my letter interesting.

Theo

P.S sorry if I made any spelling mistakes (I think I did) :)

Karen Gregory

Liquorice laces

Sadly, I can't remember the lilac lady's name but she was wonderful. I also remember liquorice laces (the very long ones!)... during my early years at school, I would pass them up the sleeves of my school cardi and out the top, then when in lessons I would sneak the odd nibble without anyone noticing! Naughty but nice.

Karen Gregory

Cherry Lips

Cherry Lips! They remind me of the lovely elderly lady who owned the corner sweet shop. She always had immaculate, lilac coloured hair with matching nail polish and lippy. Sometimes it would be a pearly pink, but mostly she loved the lilac look!

Malcolm McLaren

Cola Cubes

Cola Cubes (the proper ones!), Astro Belts, lemon bonbons, fudge cubes, I could go on...

Nikolas Allsorts

Liquorice

Nikolas Allsorts and the Case of the Bye Bye Birdy Wedding Ring.

I love Liquorice. Always have and always will, but it was one particularly sunny summer's day that would rock my affection for my favourite black root treat. I was six years old and at the zoo with my Mother, Father and older brother (in reality i think it was just my older brother and sustitute Gateways for the zoo but i think the first version is more romantic, non?). My mother had just bought the two of us a Sherbet Fountain and we were tucking in to the fizzy sugary goodness when the most enormous bird you've ever seen (think buzzard or albatross) swooped over head, gracing us with a substantial dropping in the process. The gift promptly landed in my sherbet fountain and on my finger, forming a perfect ring shape.

Ever since I've been happily married to my true love, liquorice (or the albatross, whichever way you look at it) and we have lived happily ever after. The End.

Chocobunny Bunny

Sherbet

My mum used to buy me and my sister a Mars bar each on Fridays which we used to cut up into little cubes to make it last longer! We got 50p a week pocket money which we used to spend on comics instead of sweets. Sad but true!!! I do have one incident that happened to a school friend of mine but it is pretty gross you might not want to use it!!! Julie stuffed herself with sherbet one lunchtime and managed to give herself hiccups. I told her the only way to cure them was to drink some water from the other side of a glass (God knows where I heard that old tale from!!!) anyhow she managed it, and promptly threw up because water and sherbet don't mix!!!

Denise and I thought it was hilarious, Julie didn't but it did stop her hiccups though!!!

Chris Odonnell

Gobstoppers

One of my earliest childhood memories is being held upside down by my ankles over the bath by my mum as she tried to dislodge a gobstopper from my throat. Needless to say I survived and it put me off gobstoppers for about 10 minutes.

Dolly Mixture

Kali bag

When I was 10 years old we would stop at the sweet shop at the corner of Gregory Fold on the way to school. Pocket money would be spent on bags of rainbow coloured Kali, Shrimps, Fruit Salads and Astro Belts, and then hidden in our desks until 1st break when we would play sweet swapsies....a fruit salad got a very big dip in the Kali bag! Snotty kids were not allowed to play!

Cassie Smith

Love hearts

My memory of "love hearts" is sitting with my best friend and we would read the messages on the sweets out to each other. For some reason this was the funniest thing in the world and we spent hours doing it. The best scenario ever was to be able to read out "tit for tat" that would bring on an unstoppable fit of giggle. I still eat "love hearts" and they bring back fond memories. I am still looking for a "tit for tat", unfortunately it seems to have been replaced these days with "text me"- sadly this is not as good for inducing giggle!

Katy Davis

Easter eggs

My mummy sneaking into my room and eating all my easter eggs. Sucking on Rubarb and custard in the back of the car on family days out to the beach.

C.B.

Pocket money

I was given 50p pocket money when we moved house to shut me up. When I went to the sweet shop it was actually too much money and I couldn't find enough sweets to buy. (many cost 1/2p back then!)

Miriam K.

Rolos

My Father used to get paid weekly on a Friday. Every Friday night he would stop off at the sweet shop and buy a packet of rolos for my mum, my sister and me. Every Friday and always Rolos. We used to wait at the door for him. I can't see Rolos now without thinking of my Dad.

Una Fricker

Space dust

I remember when fizz whizz was called space dust my brother and I had great fun pouring it down ant hills then adding water and watching the ant fountain explosion that followed. Cruelty to Ants almost certainly but amazing fun for an 8 year old!!

Billy Davis

Crunchie Bar

My sweet memory revolves around one of the chocolates in your Retro Jamboree Box - the "Crunchie" bar Or, rather, the Champagne flavoured Crunchie bar.

Back in 1999, they bought out a limited edition Champagne flavour Crunchie. It was still milk chocolate, but they had infused the honeycomb with a Champagne flavouring. The wrapper was silver, and covered in shiny holographic bubbles.

To celebrate the 1999/2000 New Year's Eve, we had a big party round my Uncle's flat in Crystal Palace. He has a 3rd floor flat that had rather nice views of the fireworks both in London and in Crystal Palace Park. Before leaving for the party, I went to my local newsagents and bought an entire box of these Crunchie bars to bring to the party with me. As the clocks struck Midnight, we served the chocolate along with our Champagne.

So, my first memory of the new Millennium was standing on the balcony of my Uncle's flat, overlooking the fireworks going off in London - Crunchie Bar in one hand, glass of bubbly in the other. Happy days!

Rosey Apple

Mixed Toffees

When I was about 10 years old my mum used to give me 50p on a Saturday morning to go to the newsagents and buy her half a pound of mixed toffees for her Saturday night treat. On my way home I used to eat all the mint ones; to this day I don't think my mum knows that mixed toffees include a mint one!

Toby Ray, London

Sherbet

OH MY GOODNESS!!!

I nearly let out quite a lot of wee when I opened that package! Thank you so much. I had forgotten quite how much I like sherbet, I have stuffed myself with flying saucers, and Dib-dabs, and Oh my goodness, how much do I love the liquorice in a sherbet fountain!?

It took me right back to my 4th Birthday party, when my Aunty bought me a pale blue little plastic wheelbarrow and filled it full of sweets. I probably did do a little wee in my jim-jams back then.

Thank you so much! They came at exactly the right time, as it looks that I may be loosing my job as the company I work for are about to go bust. I can stay home and eat sweets!

Thank you so much!!

Michael in the US, 06 Aug 2007

Jelly Babies

I had been trying to get some authentic 'jelly babies' ever since I saw them on the TV series 'Dr Who' in 1976 on the public broad casting network in Destin, Florida, USA.

Recently a friend told me he was going to visit his son in London and I asked him to get me some. On his arrival home, he handed me a small bag of jelly babies from Hope and Greenwood. To say the least, it was worth the 30 year wait. The taste and texture was far superior to anything I have gotten here in the United States. I have shared very few with my family and hope to order some from H&G's new website when it is up and running. I only have 3 left, so let's hope they hurry!

Richard T

Sherbet Pips

When I was 12 we used to go to the local sweet shop and I always bought Sherbet Pips. I used to cram as many as I could into my mouth until I looked like a squirrel. Then I would bounce on my mate's trampoline. This was probably not a good thing to do.

Mrs Jill Davies, UK

Rations

I have discovered that a jar of "Rations" in the laundry room, certainly helps to chase away those wash-day blues!

Ms Brenda Sketchley

Kahli

Oh what joy to read of your shop memories flood back especially about raspberry crystals otherwise known as kahli. I'd have many flavours in one bag for 3d 'rainbow kahli' more likely Gwen -our local corner sweet shop owner- put all the last bits of the many flavours into one jar (a kind of recycle) and how we kids loved getting our fingers sticky and we'd see who got their finger the deepest colour by using it as a 'dipper' instead of liquorice our tongues didn't fair too well either.

Sue Wheeler

Buttered Brazils

I have been scouring the area for buttered brazils . I am visiting my sister in South Africa next week to celebrate her 60th birthday, and have to try and get some to take over there. It used to be our Mum's favourite when we were children. She had a quarter of them every Friday as her weekly treat. Anyway its now my sister's favourite and I will buy some to take with me. Someone who I work with mentioned your website, I visited it and hey presto, you sell them. You have saved my life. Thank you very much.