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Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe.... arriving soon on Lordship Lane...


Dara @mrsimms

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Please help me, I've been trying to locate sweets from the 80s/90s - used to buy them by the 1/4lb. I'm positive they were called Mini Fruits, but Google can't find anything like it.


The looked a lot like: https://www.hancocks.co.uk/millions-sweet but weren't chewy, but they were that size and were multi-coloured.

It'll be nice to see this place open, I remember the wonderful smell you'd get when entering the sweet shop that I think was where the St Christopher's charity shop now is and the sound of sweets hitting the weighing machine was oddly pleasing too, had me salivating like one of Pavlov's dogs!

Funny you mention that .... the smell of the Olde Sweet shop & sweets hitting the weighing scales....helped me decide on opening my own franchise..... (lots of research) ...

Hope the local community are as excited as me xx...

`best of luck with your new venture Dara.


There was a sweet shop on North Cross Road that used to sell ration books which my kids loved getting as presents or in their stockings. They were always so excited to take their ration books to the shop, choose their sweets and have their tokens stamped. They would then count up how much was left for the next visit!


Will you be doing anything similar?

Ontherun Wrote:

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> `best of luck with your new venture Dara.

>

> There was a sweet shop on North Cross Road that

> used to sell ration books which my kids loved

> getting as presents or in their stockings. They

> were always so excited to take their ration books

> to the shop, choose their sweets and have their

> tokens stamped. They would then count up how much

> was left for the next visit!

>

> Will you be doing anything similar?



That was the late lamented Hope and Greenwood, wasn't it? I still miss their salted caramel ice cream, much nicer than other local options (in my opinion).

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