Sweetie Help needed!

DaisyMoo

For my Mum's birthday, I want to make her a retro sweet box from her childhood. I have researched the retro sweet sites, but I was wondering if anyone could help with specific sweets that they might remember from the era.
I am looking for any popular sweets from the late 50s and early 60s, I would really appreciate if anyone could help out with some names (particularly sweets that were available in Ireland at this time)

Thanks folks x

littlekitty2010

What a lovely idea. Have you tried any of the old style sweetie shops. Where abouts in ireland are you? I know belfast has 2 old style shops if thats any good.

ERICS_MUM

Well, there were :

the old fashioned boiled sweets - pineapple chunks, acid drops, rhubarb & custard and (my favourites) lemon sherbets.

Chews - fuit salads, blackjacks.

Sweet cigarettes and sweet tobacco (we were so innont in those days ).

Gob stoppers.

Spangles

A Fry's chocolate bar that had 5 sections all joined together but with a different colour filling in each IYKWIM

flying saucers

sherbet fountains

shrimps (pink foam things)

LV_Sue

Aniseed balls, Tom Thumb drops (tiny boiled sweets that stuck to the paper bag, but tasted even better with a bit of paper and some fluff from your pocket:rotfl:), sherbet dipdabs, liquorish root, pear drops, Frys 5 boys chocolate bar, honeycomb chunks, coconut mushrooms, Paynes Poppets, chewy nuts, Jawbreaker bubble gum, liquorish comforts, mint imperials, bulls eyes, Pontefract cakes.

I'm sure I'll think of more later

DaisyMoo

Littlekitty, I'm actually in UK now, but Mum is still in Ireland.

EricsMum & LV Sue - Frys chocolate bar!! You are a genius, I know she used to eat these. Plus this reminded me of the Walnut Whip (think beacause the wrappers are similar colours)

Thanks guys - keep the fab ideas coming x

PootleFlump_3

Im sure floral gums and cherry lips were around then. (although floral gums always tasted bogging!)

Sure you have already been on here but there is a list of 50's sweets on this link

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/1950s-decade-sweets-from-your-1950s-childhood-large-p-1452.html

LJM

that looks fantastic big fan of blackjacks here lol what are those sweets in the little black container i have a vague recollection of these

Giggle

Im off sweet shopping tomorrow i have 3 candy buffets to do this year and i have never done one before but im going to love buying all the sweets for them )

sethsgran

I used to buy Kop Kops, Morrison supermarkets are selling them at the moment.

rufusdog52

Lemon bonbons, those little packs of fizzy sweets that look a bit like refreshers but are smaller, refreshers them selves, smarties - the lids of the tubes used to have a letter on the reverse side and we used to collect them to see if we could make out names.

Discodave

http://sweet-homealabama.co.uk/ is based in Sunderland (website coming soon)

if you know anyone local to here, then Martin is your man. they sell alsorts (no pun intended!)