Great selection of British confectionary…read more They have the legit, by the pound old schools candies and cough medecine. The brand names, the house name and a pre-made bag of "every Harry Potter candy for 10£" Which is an amazing deal. If you like your quality sweets and want to explore the sweet side of the UK. That's your pit stop.

I felt like 1960s Charlie Bucket shuffling into Hardy's for the first time. Sweets-stacked shelved…read moreto the ceiling, beautiful tins, and a mess of brands I had never heard of. The place was crowded with tourists (Surprise, surprise) but it doesn't matter. The staff were helpful and proactive at cutting the line down. After much deliberation, I ended up picking some Butter Fudge up just for the beautiful silver and blue tin. I can't wait to drop back in to collect more darling tins, foreign candies and souveneirs for home.

What a delightful candy shop!…read more While on a day trip to Oxford to show my 10yo daughter where she *will* be attending university (hey, a mom can dream!), we happened upon this absolutely wonderful little shop, filled to bursting with every delicious sweet you could imagine! All of the standard favorites: humbugs, sherbet dips, chocolate-covered everything, fruit-shaped everything...you get the idea. But imagine my absolute surprise when I spied a shelf stocked with American candy, cereals, and snacks...including my favorite: Cheetos. Not even 48 hour prior, I was telling my husband that I would go to obscene lengths to have a bag of Cheetos, so strong was my craving for the vile snack food. Little did I know that all I needed to do was go to Oxford and visit Hardy's. Sorted! Now excuse me while I go wash the orange from my fingers...

What a joy to find at the top of the High St in Winchester! A shop that sells all the old sweets…read morethat one thought had long disappeared. Buttered brazils, strawberry Fizz Wizzes, humbugs of various stripes, liquorice is all its awful guises (I hated it) including the packet of sherbert with a liquorice stick inside like a small firework. Those flying-saucer sherbets in different art-deco colours; aniseeed balls, pear drops, barley sugar, sarsparilla, sherbert lemons. A treasure trove. Interestingly, most are still made in Scotland and the North of England. It's a labour of love by the owner, Judith Burnett, to keep each jar stocked. How lucky we are that she does.

visited this shop yesterday-previous reviewer has listed all the delights found here so i wont…read morerepeat it. but oh! what delicious treats are to be found here, i practically had to be dragged screaming from the premises before i spent the entire household budget! lovely staff complete a prefect sweet paradise

Decisions decisions decisions!! And I haven't even got to the sweets yet!…read more This shop is listed 3 times on Yelp: Mrs Kibble's Olde Sweet Shoppe Mrs Kibble's Olde Sweet Shop Mrs Kibbles Olde Sweet Shoppe Having carefully studied the shop itself and referring back to my lessons on grammar, I've decided to review under this listing! Hooray Monica R - we agree on the spelling! Well, you can imagine this shop right at the end of the Willy Wonka factory tour. Rows upon rows of clear jars containing old style sweets. The assistants are happy to advise and offer little tastings. Your choice of goodies are packaged in retro style paper bags to take away and share. Whether you're looking for some nostalgia about the sweets you grew up with or to discover some new taste sensation, Mrs Kibble's is definitely worth a visit.

I like this place for its varied English style candies at a decent price…read more Both pre-packaged and also sold by weight. I had a small piece of Turkish delight, which I haven't had in years. Very fresh and tasty. I also picked up a nice hard-shell, soft center courrant candy package for about $5 pounds. Nice place to pick out some gifts. Very friendly and helpful service.

I have to add a photo to this business because this picture epitomizes the cute, old-fashioned,…read moregenuine essence of this warm and friendly sweet shoppe. The man behind the counter was so in character! Sadly, not all of the employees dress like this, but just that one experience was good enough for me. I'm sold! I will always stop by this place when I visit England! They have packaged candy as well as hand-made chocolates! Both of which are delicious! I was also happy to see that they had sugar-free chocolate. Some of my family members are diabetic, so I was looking for something they could enjoy too. Mr. Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe was perfect! Everyone should visit this place!

Great little shop where you can buy American Candy alongside old fashioned sweetshop sweets, such…read moreas lemon sherbets, and cough candy. The service is always with a smile, and the staff very helpful. The weekends can be a little busy, but it's usually just excited kids wanting to spend their pocket money. We will continue to visit often.

Chocolate, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Actually, it's more that my wife loves it…read morethan I do. So for a recent trip back to the States, I had to make a stop at Thornton's to pick up a box or two. Good service, they will help you figure out the right thing to purchase if you don't know what to get. Though it's kinda hard to go wrong with chocolate of any type!

I love thorntons Everything especialy their toffee!! This is a small shop, in the Oracle Shopping…read moreCentre in reading but They do stock a really good selction of all the favorites. The store is kept clean and tidy and always looks well presented whenever i call in. The staff were very polite, helpful and friendly. I always think its worth paying the extra money you spend in here as everything they do is just so yummy. They had some lovely Christmas stock in, and great stocking fillers which I bought while there, unfortunately the temptation was too much that they didn't make it back home with me.

You know that phrase: "kid in a candy store?"…read more Think: candies displayed in old glass jars, chocolates made from the U.K. (bought boxes of rose cream filled one for mom and dark chocolate covered ginger for my friend), toffee, caramels, gummies and even some American candy. You think it, they probably have it. This place has that nostalgic atmosphere and sweet aromas which make you feel so good just by being in the shop. You can't go wrong with chocolate anything and English toffee that'll stick to your teeth; these are the stuff that your friends dream of. And it's so much better than that Roman Bath magnet that's just gonna sit there and collect dust. Thank me later! ;-)

I have seen many a grown man crumble at the sight of strawberry bon bons, sugar laces and popping…read morecandy in this authentically olde worlde sweet shop. The idea for this aladdin's cave of sugary delights came from a sepia photograph the owners saw on a confectionnary newspaper. And when you walk through its doors you'll see how authentically fifties this sweet shop is. The owners of the shop obviously love what they do, and will enthusiastically talk you through all their stock and help you make your choice. I can guarantee if you go back to your office with a bag of sweets from Mr Simms - you'll be the most popular person at work.

If you have a craving for something sweet and venture into Sweet Boutique, be prepared to leave…read morehalf an hour later laden down with all kinds of sugar-coated beauties. Like the original branch in Hove, this Sweet Boutique is beautifully designed with floor to ceiling glass and plastic jars filled with colourful and tempting treats. There's cherry lips, rhubarb and custards and sherbert dips for nostalgics and all kinds of new and delicious flavours for sweet addicts. They also sell cute accessories for bakers and yummy mummies from recipe cards and skull and cross bone cupcake cases to retro playing cards.

Many sweet shops advertise their candies as gift ideas, but Sweet Boutique is really the only sweet…read moreshop / gift store. The packaged candy is a mixture of retro and modern; golden nugget gum, candy 'sticks' and that dipping powder with the sugar wand were some of the old favourites. The pick and mix items are all behind the counter, meaning the shopkeeper has to pour things out for you individually. This isn't my favourite method of picking candy. I like a tiny bit of a bunch of things, and I'd feel guilty about making someone open so many different containers...However, I suppose the set up is their idea. The gift items include mixed candies in stylish bundles, along with several candy-shaped non-edible items: magnets, candles, erasers etc that look like cakes and donuts. My friend and I went with some almond nougat and sugar mice to help us shop until dinner time.

Really brilliant shop for those of us who are partial to a sweetie or two!! My wifes' downfall but…read moreI can resist.ahem!!! The sweets are carefully chosen from top quality manufacturers and only the best will do. The shop is wrong;y marked on the map.it is right at the bottom of the High Street oppsite The Swan Hotel. Car park behind the Swan.

A huge selection of sweet-toothed treats for all ages. Much like an old confectioner's shop, where…read moreyou could ask pleadingly for "a quarter of...". They stock every kind of sweet imaginable from hotel chocolat style chocolate bars, bricks and truffles to popping candy, penny sweets, lollipops, boiled sweets, nougat, raisins... if it belongs in a sweet shop, you will find it here. There are often queues of children lurking around, eyes wide with pleasure at the vast shelves full of treats that await them! Such treats come at a price. I'm not sure whether I remember penny sweets as correctly being a penny when I was a child (i think some of them had migrated to two pence by then!) but it is a tad expensive. Anyway, the treats are tasty - just save your pennies before visiting!