Welcome to The Sweet Jar

Photograph of the shop interior

Remember all those traditional old-fashioned hand made sweets you used to get as a child, hard boiled sweets like, rhubarb & custard, cola cubes and bulls eyes, liquorice sweets like Pontefract Cakes, Catherine Wheels, Liquorice Pipes and Bassetti Wands.

Old fashioned toffees like Chewing Nuts and Merrymaid Caramels well take a look around "The Sweet Jar" and all those childhood memories will come flooding back.


Photograph of the outside of the shop

"The Sweet Jar" has sourced manufacturers who still use traditional methods of boiling in copper pans to produce all those sweets which you thought were a distant memory. Hard Boiled Sweets, Toffee Sweets, Jelly Sweets, Liquorice Sweets, Coconut Teacakes, Sweet Tobacco and Toffee Crumble, Cloudy Lemonade, Sarsaparilla and Ginger Beer that burns your throat! We have over 500 to choose from.

Just browse the stock list to re visit all those childhood memories! Once you have decided which memory to rekindle you can order them and then have them delivered direct to your home, or to the home of a friend as a nostalgic gift. You can even have them in a personalised jar.