They were just fantastic and still are - and now you can satisfy your craving for a little sweet-toothed nostalgia care of sweetsandrock.com. Our confectionery suppliers use only the finest ingredients.
We hope you like our sweet characters, courtesy of our graphic designer, Graeme Bowen, of the Cotswolds. Let us introduce them: Penny Pineapple is our character for the Boiled Sweets category; Barney Bubble Gum for the Bubble Gum category; Hugh Chew for the Chewy Sweets category, Charlie Chocolate for the Chocolate category; Kevin Coconut for the Coconut category; Cherry Lips for the Gums Category; Larry Liquorice for the Liquorice category; Molly Lolly for the Lolly category; Mackenzie Mint for the Mint category; Dolly Dew Drop for the Novelty category; Rocky Rock for the Rock category; Seamus O'Sherbet for the Sherbet category; Colin Cola for the Sugar Free category and Tiffany Toffee for the Toffee category. They are there to assist you and make your shopping experience pleasant and fun.
Shipping
We would like to stress that we try to keep our shipping costs to a minimum. We would encourage you to order more, maybe by clubbing together with your friends, in order to benefit from our maximum postage charge of only £4.95 (UK Mainland only) Full details of our Shipping costs can be found by clicking on 'About Us' which appears at the top of this page.
Our Sweet Range
Our extensive range of traditional, online, old-fashioned confectionery (which will be growing all the time) are in categories. Select your favourites (above), by either clicking on the respective button on the left side of the screen or clicking on the respective button from the matrix of sweet photos. Our range includes:
Boiled Sweets
Hard boiled traditional old-fashioned sweets - whether you suck them or crunch them they are still as awesome as ever. Remember those butterscotch flavoured
Sweet Peanuts with that peanut cracknel centre. We also have
Kola Kubes,
Pineapple Chunks,
Sherbet Lemons to name just a few!
Bubble Gum
Chewy Sweets
Traditional Chocolate Sweets
Traditional Coconut Sweets
Old Fashioned Gummed Sweets
This is my type of sweet. I remember filling my sweet bag, on the way home from school, with
Sports mixtures and
Midget Gems. Not forgetting
Floral Gums and
Cherry Lips -ok, we know they are an acquired taste but we promise that once you have switch on to that scented flavour you can't leave them alone. There are also more gummed sweets to choose from.
Traditional Liquorice Sweets
Its like Marmite, you either love it or hate it. So if you don't like that distinct and exquisite liquorice taste there are plenty of other sweets in our traditional, online, internet sweet shop. However for those that do like liquorice, you must take a look at our range -
Pontefract Cakes with that touch of treacle,
Catherine Wheels,
Liquorice Torpedoes and
Liquorice Comfits, to name just a few.
Traditional & Contemporary Lollies
Old-Fashioned Mint Sweets
Novelty Sweets
Old-Fashioned Sherbet
Sugar Free Sweets
Traditional Toffee Sweets
A unique flavour of chewy toffee, encased in a crisp candy casing dusted off with icing sugar. Amazing! How can anyone not like Bon Bons? especially when we have the flavours of
Toffee;
Lemon;
Strawberry;
Chocolate,
Blackcurrant and Liquorice and
Apple. Sorry, I've got carried away - we also have lots of other lovely toffees made by Bluebird and Walkers.
Traditional Bars of Seaside Rock
They will always be associated with the seaside, particularly Blackpool, where our supplies come from. An interesting statistic for you - most of the Worlds Rock is manufactured in a 5 mile radius of Blackpool. Our Rock manufacturer has been making handmade hard rock candy, in the traditional way, for over 75 years. However you no longer have to travel to the coast to partake - we have our variety of flavours for you to choose from including the
Original Mint Rock.
Customised Seaside Rock
For Weddings or Anniversaries you might like the couples names and a heart shape in the centre, or both couples names and the date of your special day. All our rock is hand-made to the highest standard using only the finest pure natural ingredients in a wide range of colours and flavours. Simply hover your cursor over the
Weddings, Parties and Special Occasions text, which can be found under the Weddings and Gifts section near the top right hand side of this page, and click through to view the price list and order form.
As a promotional give away or as an inventive way of attracting new business, our custom made rock bars and wrapped rock sweets can incorporate your logo, company name or message in your corporate colours. There is a choice of 4 colours for the outer casing of your rock bars or rock sweets and a selection of 33 flavours (full details are listed at the bottom of the order form). This again can be found under the Weddings and Gifts section under
Company Promotions.
All our confectionery suppliers use only the finest ingredients, whether it be Old-fashioned English sweets or original seaside rock candy.
History:
The Bubbas range of children's confectionery holds a strong leadership position in many markets. Number one bubblegum in the world is Bubbaloo with a surprise liquid centre. A unique technology that could insert a liquid centre into bubblegum was developed for Bubbaloo, initially introduced in Latin America in 1984. Bubbaloo has since grown to be the number one bubble gum worldwide, based on its positioning as the "Full of Surprises" brand and is now sold in 25 countries.
In 1997 Bubba the Cat was created as an advertising icon.
In 2001 Bubbaxtreme, the first lollipop with a Bubbaloo in the centre, was launched in Mexico and has quickly become the leading lollipop in that market.
Did you know?
The first bubble gum ever invented was called Blibber-Blubber gum in 1906. However, it was never sold.
The record for the largest bubblegum bubble ever blown is 58.4cm (23in). The bubble was blown by Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, California, USA at the ABC-TV studios in New York City, in 1994.