I know, FWIW, where you can still buy REAL Vimto, in glass bottles- none of this low sugar, high sweetener, high juice (ALLEGEDLY) healthy bitter lousy aftertaste muck they flog us in the UK. And whilst scouring the internet for images to illustrate our words I immediately found this gem: Spangles, though were the quintessential 60s sweet. There are bags full of sticky toffee, flying Saucers, Wham Bars, liquorices, Flumps, Fruit Salads, Black Jacks, Candy Shrimps, fizzy cola bottles, Parma Violets, and Refreshers to name but a few. As well as the football cards, I’m sure I had complete or near-complete sets of Flags of the World, The American Civil War and of course War Of The Worlds. But yes mate, there were some that tasted more like medication, yuk. 1960s sweets saw a boom as sugar rationing had only ceased a decade before. But there were always some horrible ones left over, the nougat ones with nutty bits  in our house. Looks like Old English Spangles were about as unpopular as blancmange! Classic collection of 1960's Retro Sweets. Vegan Sweets Pick ‘N’ Mix, About us They still taste just as good. A UK online Sweetshop, full of retro 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s sweets, traditional, old fashioned sweets & all your old favourites. We sell sweet box hampers, sweet buckets and jars ideal for gifts, weddings and party’s. EXCELLENT stuff. Sweets through the ages: Tim Richardson's timeline documents a history of candy (Image: SWNS). They had every kind of sweet imaginable, and we spent a fabulous hour or so loading up our paper bags with as much loot as we could afford. I liked Old English Spangles, and mourn their untimely passing. Unique 1960's Retro Gift ideal for those celebrating their 60th birthday! Like you, I don’t recall coffee or blackcurrant, when I bought them (in the 1960s and early 1970s), were the five flavours you mention in your comment, lime, strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, and orange. Duet was made by Mackintosh’s. Carefully crafted into a beautiful gift pack, every pack is individually hand assembled by us at Sweet and Nostalgic. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. See also the other parts of this trilogy: ‘Food in the 1960s: Actually it was quite good.’ and ‘Food in the 1960s: What else were we eating?’, Plus ‘Food in the 1970s: What went wrong?’, Writing about life, Liverpool and anything else that interests me. The damage was done in the 1960s, you can’t go back and change history.”. Swizzles Love Hearts Mini Rolls (Pack 8 Rolls). Britain's Most Popular Sweets: 1950s. Considered by me and all my friends to be as staple a part of our diets as potatoes and milk. But thinking of George Harrison’s dire warnings, how were our teeth faring with all these sweets and chocolate? £1.99 Ex Tax: £1.66. Oak Veneer Occasional Table; Small Baby Doll brand Lipstick; Winfield own brand Ladies Fashion Dress; RCA Camden 33rpm Long-Playing Record; Quarter Pound (125 grams) of Pic'n'Mix Sweets; Standard Ball of Winfield own brand Wool Or, where did all those fillings come from? I once liked Galaxy chocolate very much, but now the taste has changed because it is not made with full cream milk anymore, now with skimmed milk powder, Yuk. Many of this age group had the drill, drill and more drilling treatment. Simply hover over an item to see its price. A UK online Sweetshop, full of retro sweets from 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s sweets, traditional, old fashioned sweets & all your old favourites. Actually, IIRC it was 2 sticks in 1 wrapper. They had a choco like filling. A lovely memory Kathi. And yes, why can’t those junk phone calls about banks and building societies be about retrospective claims on the dentists of the 1960s? Well, there you are. heart”). Please does anyone remember a chocolate bar called duet from 60s/70s seem to remember it was out the same time as aztecs but can’t remember who made them. I was given two rather very large bars of Galaxy milk chocolate, one from my partner’s daughter and one from her grandson, and they still go down just as well. Weekend were made by Mackintosh’s, and even I found them sickly and a bit weird- but would like to see them back! I had never experienced a problem with my teeth but was suddenly told I needed 5 fillings. Spoilsports! I well remember visits to a sadistic dentist every school holiday and having to endure endless fillings many of them without an anaesthetic. Barry Ward and Ronnie Hughes rejoice in the sweets of the 1960s in north Liverpool. Soft, rummy raisin thing dipped in plain choc with slightly lighter choc swirl decoration. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I remember well the dire warnings about gobstockers and chewing gum. This was so interesting, and what fun it is to remember those iconic sweets (lollies in Australia). I had always suspected the dentists of my childhood gave me fillings unnecessarily as I didn’t have any new ones as an adult for many years, just replacements. Contact us Many of the brands that are popular today first appeared on the shelves in the 1950s. MIXED SWEETS Vast banks of penny sweets under the glass counter at the local sweet shop/tobacconist (or high on the shelves behind the shopkeeper); the little white paper bag and the decision of whether to allow the shopkeeper to choose your sweets … It was a marshmallow toffee topped centre and chocolate covered, 2 short bars in each wrapper. Oh, LOL, Ronnie! Drumsticks are raspberry and milk flavoured chewy lollipop. As for drilling and filling I’m sure that was going on across the world in the 50’s and 60’s. With Britain struggling to recover from the devastation of world war one, sweet production was not top of the national priority list. 1960s Price Quiz Can you guess the price of these items in 1969? you are right they was bigger wagon wheels i remember my nan buying me a pink one one year about 1973 i loved it and i also loved frys fruit centres lime strawberry rasberry pinnaple orange them are the flavours i remember eating when i was about 4 1969 i dont remember coffee or blackcurrant its a pity they dont still do them i loved them my fave. We stock a huge range of pick and mix sweets, traditional sweets, retro sweets and American candy. Well, last week's discovery that food in the 1960s was actually quite good sparked … It means that most people in this specific age group need dentists now more than any other age group to repair their teeth. I think we managed to stop eating it before we got sick, but it did sure help us stay up late to watch that historic event. They were such a lovely flavour and even though only five, I remember being bitterly disappointed when I discovered the change. If many of this age group had only visited a dentist occasionally in their childhood, perhaps only when in pain, they would have had less unnecessary treatment and their teeth might be in better shape now. Mostly we wouldn’t buy ‘posh’ sweets from here, but loose ones, things where you could get, say, four for a penny (we’re in the old money here) like Trebor Fruits, Black Jack Chews and various flavours of ‘bubbly’ chewing gum. Never heard of them but what about Crackerjack popcorn? Drumsticks. WIMPS . TV ad was a little girl rocking on a rocking horse to a song that went ” Du, Du-et, du, du-et…….etc”! Knew it didn’t taste anything like back then, but hadn’t realised the reason is so basic. They also made a similar shaped thing called just what I don’t recall, out of barley sugar. Posted Sweets is a top UK based online sweet shop. It felt like eating a little piece of history. Sweet Shop Add to Wish List. It’s not me or the sweets that are to blame. Your personal data will be used to support your experience throughout this website, to manage access to your account, and for other purposes described in our privacy policy. Spend time looking through the hundreds of sweets and confectionery products that we stock. PS Did Dracula enjoy a Black Magic casket (food for thought!). ‘Posh sweets’ were most celebrated at Christmas when Selection Boxes would be expected to turn up in the pillow case at the bottom of your bed. Take a look below to start spreading the love. A useful fallback for dads on their wives’ birthdays , anniversaries or, again, Christmas (I don’t think the commercialisation of Valentines Day had begun then). I could go on and on and on. The 1920s & 1930’s was an era of extremes. And get that strap line? Where have the boxes of weekend and white heather chocolates gone does anyone remember them also lucky numbers. The Christmas tradition that only got going in the 1960s. “Don’t forget the dire warnings from adults about swallowing gob-stoppers (“you’ll choke to death!”) and especially chewing gum (It’ll wrap round your Our Sweets Of The 1960s gift is ideal for anyone who was either born in or was a kid in the 1960s. Taste memories go very deep don’t they? Sweets and chocolate are so boring these days. Again clever marketing, especially ‘The Lady Loves Milk Tray’ TV adverts. I too remember ‘Frys Five Centre’, Karen, used to love them. But I’m sure it happened. If I had had the dentist then that I have now I would have very few fillings. As well as working with others to make the world a fairer and kinder place: http://asenseofplace.com. ( Log Out /  1960s sweets new without tags but never been used having a major clear out hence cheap price of 12.99 Uk bidders only any bidders from overseas will be cancelled and payment is required within three days of the end of the auction Happy bidding It’s Mr Marshall! All Your Favourite Old Fashioned Retro Sweets Online at The Sweetie Jar. Barry Ward and Ronnie Hughes rejoice in the sweets of the 1960s in north Liverpool. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. We used to buy a chocolate bar in the 60’s that had a rum flavour, it was shaped a bit like a Mars bar. Penny Sweets Delivery Information Compare this Product. Love hearts, sherbet lemons, wine gums and much more. And they never went without sweets. A box cost 2/6 and sometimes two of us sugar craving girls would pool our money to share one. I just bought 24 bottles from Wordwide Foods in Manchester, (Rusholme) near the Infirmiary on Wilmslow road. Those old ads are priceless. View more posts. Things started to change when the UK’s answer to the burger bars in America arrived in the 1950s to cater for that new group of consumers, the ‘teenagers’. A lovely jigsaw to do, even if it did remind me how much of a sweet tooth i have. We sell sweet box hampers, sweet buckets and jars ideal for gifts, weddings and party’s. Hence my fear of dentists took about 40 years to die down thanks to a more enlightened approach to dentistry. Nichols (the makers) denied they still made it when I had one of my periodical rants at the, but they surely DO. (2) 2 product ratings - Gibsons "1950s Sweet Memories" 1000 Piece Quality Jigsaw (G7002) Complete - Used Try an Asisn shop, around Ramadan time (June) you may get lucky. I heard somewhere that in those days the dentists got paid by the NHS, so much per filling or extraction. Glenmore Business Park Including this frightening news: “What he fails to mention is the over treatment by dentists to anyone who is now aged around 50 or 60 will have suffered in their younger years. Within our 2 bob budget we could get buddies, mint leaves,black cats, musk sticks yes Spanglers,Lifesavers, a packet of Fags licorice straps or we could blow the whole 2 bob on one glorious chocolate bar – Cadburys, Nestle or Frys.I remember the narrow 12 inch bright red boxes of politically incorrect ‘Nigger Boy Licorice.’ There was a picture of such a boy on the lid. Terms & Conditions Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Yes, is a great shame they no longer make them. This doorstop slice of deliciousness uses old-school suet, citrus zest and juicy currants for a burst of flavour. Do you remember you always got a Bar 6 in your selection box but I never saw one sold separately in a shop. In our case, as Barry says, this was the ‘Traveller’s Rest’, conveniently situated, for them and us, just outside our junior school. Oooohh I can still taste all those sweets, especially the Spangles. If you had to describe sweets from the 70s one word you would not use is boring. I so remember the Ad for Galaxy Chocolate I was about 4 at the time and whenever I had one I had to close my eyes , even Today after coming across one in a Supermarket in Australia I still closed my eyes when eating it and Fry’s Chocolate was always a Treat from my Grandad. At the time it was created, it was the only chewy lolly in the world. Sweet success. For those of us who used to trek from Melling to Deyes Lane Secondary Modern School, there was a small sweet shop by Maghull Station … in the buildings that still resemble huts (opposite The Great Mogul pub). We fly the flag for these delights ensuring that a new generation of sweetie lovers can enjoy them too, and in turn their kids, and so on. Login to your account, Posted Sweets The 1960s was a great time to be a kid, particularly when you had pocket money to spend at the sweet shop. All those years and memories of your Grandad, all from 2 bars of chocolate. At boading school we were allowed to choose 2 sweets per day (usually the choice was limited to barley sugar) but we could spend 2 shillings at the local shop on Saturdays and we could choose almost anything but chewie. We endeavour to only source t very best old fashioned sweets, made by established British confectioners, often using traditional production methods. Was looking for the Galaxy dark room test as an illustration for a Sermon on Christmas eve and came upon this blog – thank you for doing he research and showing there are no youtube clips but more, thank you for the memories. Amazon.co.uk: Sweets from 1960s. Wasn’t ‘old jamaica’. Sweet Jars Select Your Cookie Preferences. Rubbish! Apr 27, 2019 - Explore Pam's board "1960/70's sweets and chocolate in our house" on Pinterest. I do. FAQ’s No wonder we all grew up so well balanced! But thinking about this nightly gift of a packet of sweets: after our tea, and after something like apple pie and custard; you have to remember that on the way home from school we’d ALREADY been to a sweetshop, much like the one illustrated at the top. Lashings of homemade custard are most definitely compulsory. I remember plastering “real” american confederate money all over ourbrand new white tiled bathroom (first on Wilson road, blackley Manchester) and it staining the pristine grout…… The flat pick k bubbly flushed down the loo unchewed-i only wanted the dosh! We stock a huge range of pick and mix sweets, traditional sweets, retro sweets and American candy. Privacy Policy The sweets were kept in a tin for the 40 days of Lent, and then eaten in a frenzy on Easter Sunday, with the inevitable consequences.”. I think they were 2d each. Some nights though, when presented with your packet of sweets after tea (this really happened) you’d find you had the wrong kind of Spangles: “Apart from the fruit flavoured ones, weren’t there some that tasted like cough medicine ?”. “Boxes of Chocolates were popular too, as you can see from the above illustration. Basically just boiled sweets but in an assortment of fruity ‘flavours’ that I suspect had never bothered a fruit tree. Born in The Sixties Retro Sweets Gift Selection Bo . The swinging sixties are associated with lollipops as depicted in the cult films Austin Powers, various scenes across the whole series show characters eating 1960s sweets. We sell sweet box hampers, sweet buckets and jars ideal for gifts, weddings and party’s. There's all sorts of Sweet Jars at The Sweetie Jar. But it wasn’t to last and the stock market crash of 1929 led to a great depression and world wide economic crisis. The first Wimpy Bars opened in 1954 selling hamburgers and milkshakes and proved extremely popular. I was put off the dentist from that moment on but the only problems i have had from age 55 onwards have been due to the fillings carried out then which I fully believe were unecessary. Susie and I were (almost) more excited about our being able to stock up on sweets at a local shop we called ‘The Hobbit House.’ That wasn’t its actual name, but it was a tiny, brightly colored shop with a round door. All of our sweets can be selected from our website and posted direct to … Toffee apples were the biggest sellers, with sticks of nougat and liquorice strips also disappearing fast. And dentists as bullying sadists. score: 69 of 100 (69%) required scores: 1, 48, 74, 83, 90 list stats leaders vote Vote print comments. Great wealth and borderline poverty. Why did companies stop making the lovely boxes of chocolates, there was always a nice picture on the lid. Cheap sweets. Each sealed pack contained a slither of pink chewie and a coloured photograph of a player. The wrapper of this iconic aniseed flavoured chew was … All quite educational. First there was the swinging jazz scene of decadence and excess of a generation who survived the first world war and were determined to enjoy themselves. And while we were getting that one ready Barry started to reminisce about the sweets we ate (by the ton) back then. I was one who visited the ‘school dentist’ at around the age of 14. Everyone wanted to collect the set. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Anyone out there remember it? A a reminder of the strong link between taste and memory. Hang the artificial colours and additives, I would rather enjoy my dolly mixtures thank you. Iconic sweets from the 60s include Candy Shrimps, Aniseed Balls, Catherine Wheels and Gumballs. See more ideas about my childhood memories, retro sweets, childhood memories 70s. And lemonade, jelly and ice cream? Susie and I are still in touch, BTW. See more ideas about vintage sweets, childhood memories, 70s sweets. Old Fashioned Sweets The timeline shows the first records of humans eating sweets are … Probably taken out the poisonous additives. Oct 23, 2019 - Explore Keith Larner's board "English sweets/snacks of the 60s/70s" on Pinterest. Because don’t forget, by the time he starts his drilling, we’ve only had our ‘big teeth’ for two or three years. And yes, many a chocolate bar would end up having a half life in selection boxes long after they’d left the shop shelves – Cadbury’s Snack, Take 5 – making you wonder how old your average selection box actually was? Please just bring them all back especially the cordial and cream bars. Time had caused me to forget – until now – that they were called the ‘Old English’ flavours. Posted Sweets is a top UK based online sweet shop. Also why did Bassetts change the dolly mixture around 1962? A trip down Memory Lane.Use r luv Bar 6 anyone remember mint cracknells? Brain Blasterz Bitz - 2 Packs "WARNING! I wonder why that is (was). I was tempted to complain ‘we don’t all have big mouths’. PO19 7BJ. We stock a huge range of pick and mix sweets, traditional sweets, retro sweets and American candy. Just can’t rmember the name! Hi I’m sure I Rember a chocolate bar could bliss it was a long bar at cut into segments that resembled an almond shape filled with a sort of whip cream. avg. The bar was withdrawn in 1975 and has been mourned, certainly by me and Sarah (though I didn’t of course know her then) ever since. So Roger, here may have been a ‘wily inside forward’ or, more likely ‘a reliable poacher.’, “When you think about it, the marketing for bubble-gum was fantastic, because once you’d started collecting the football cards, you had to have the complete set. Glad to be of ecclesiastical service. !!! I recall phoning the company some time in the late 1980s, and asking, were they still available; a woman there said “No, they were discontinued in 1982, as they weren’t selling well enough”. It was July 20, 1969, and later that night, Neil Armstrong would be taking his first steps on the moon. (May have been spelt as Chocsticks, but I doubt it ). ( Log Out /  Stephen Fry rhapsodizes about his sugar addiction in his memoir ‘The Fry Chronicles’ and mentions a lot of these candies. The chocolate bar everyone mentions from the 60s, and earlier (and Barry duly did) is Fry’s ‘5 Boys.’ Nice though, from my memory, perfectly ordinary milk chocolate and no better than any of the Cadbury’s alternatives. Compare this Product. Just fitted nice in the pocket. I’m convinced Galaxy doesn’t taste quite as fantastic as when it first came out, though I could easily be wrong. Probably every time you hear ‘The Eagle has landed’ you’re back in the Hobbit House choosing your sweets. But since you couldn’t see who you were going to get ’til you opened it, everyone had loads of swops. Change ). Proof? Chichester I believe Wagon Wheels were bigger in the past. And what do they get … rationing. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Though having said that, none of my daughters or their friends have ever had a filling. But one thing I wanted to bring you in this post was the ‘Galaxy Dark Room Test.’ Launching their competitor to brand leader Cadbury’s, Galaxy had this ludicrous TV advert: Sadly a thorough scout of the internet has failed to find this gem. Step back into the summer of ‘69 and grab a packet of Starbursts. Posted Sweets is a top UK based online sweet shop. ( Log Out /  Another mystery from that era: how certain types of chocolate bar (I’m thinking specifically of Bar 6 and Cadbury’s Wafer here) survived as items to purchase in theatres and cinemas for the intermission, long after they had disappeared from ‘ordinary’ retailers. Our list wouldn’t be complete without a traditional steamed pudding. There follows a discussion, and this between dentists you’ll remember, that set my teeth on edge but entirely changed my opinion about the gaps and fillings inside my mouth. Even so, this decade produced one of the UK’s favourite sweet creations- the Black Jack. “I was also a lover of sweets, and some favourites from the sixties were bars of 5 Boys milk chocolate, Fry’s Five Centres and of course the ones you could only get out of jars at the ‘Travellers Rest’, near the school, such as cinder toffee, pear drops, sherbert liquourice, gob-stoppers, and treacle toffee.”. Barry again: “No wonder I’ve got loads of fillings. Just seen this, thank you oh Northern vimto warrior! Yes, how could the same company get a variant of the same thing so disastrously wrong. Came out at same time as Old Jamaica and something called ‘Velvet Blend’- seemingly a mix halfway between milk and plain- I got the taste for ‘Old Jamacy- don’t ‘ee knock it back at once!’ (q. TV ad!) Another joint post from those two characters out of a latter day 'Just William' novel. So what does this mean? List of UK top-ten singles is a series of lists showing all the singles that have reached the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart in a particular year. ‘Surely no responsible professional would carry out medical procedures that weren’t needed?’. All of our sweets can be selected from our website and posted direct to … I was still eating Wagon Wheels in my teens and later when I had big hands!! Now, I have been told that they only seemed bigger because I had smaller hands. ‘Boiled vomit’ is still my opinion. Remember your favourite 60s sweets? George Harrison’s ‘Savoy Truffle’ on The White Album namechecks some of the worst, as well as saying you’ll have to have all your teeth pulled out.”. So did you have a load of sweets at the party? They were a brittle candy with a chocolate filling You could also get Aniseed Twist the same length too about 9″ long. Save even more on our multi buy option where you can mix and match across our decades, or order bulk qty's. I remember how my 1960s-self considered Caramac to be the height of sophistication … it was definitely an acquired taste! I used to let my kids have 20 pence worth after school on a Friday. Inside was a selection of different types of licorice straps i.e broad,twisted, tubular that lay glistening, ready for the feast. Does anyone remember those little pots of sugary paste that were sold in the 60’s; they came with a little spoon. That’s exactly how I felt: the fruity selection (which, as you rightly point out, probably never bothered a fruit tree) was fine, but the ‘cough-sweet’, ‘brown’ selection – ugh! At a few smaller shops. Curly Wurlies. So, thus vindicated, let’s end with a few more illustrations of sixties favourites. And did you play pass the parcel and musical chairs? Of course the manufacturers would only produce a limited number of certain cards which meant you had to keep on buying chewie to complete a set.”. It is double strength, too, for te Saudi market, mainly. Now don’t eat them all at once, or you’ll make yourself sick! Proper traditional, boiled sweets in very British flavours. There was another extruded type thing that was chewy but had bits of fruity jelly in it, my childhood memory had filed that, in triplicate and with carbon paper, under Double D. These, my friend, were Trebor ‘Chocstix’. 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