Making a table tent (sheet over table) and having a picnic there with all my teddies, the picnic was always sweets ? put on different coloured plates and bowls contrasting so the colours stood out sunny and cheerful.

Susan Marshall

One of my favourite memories as a child was going to the sweet shop to get a 10p pick and mix. It was a serious business that took careful selection. Did you get 10 penny sweets or invest 2p in a drumstick and then choose another 8. I remember the little white paper bag and the lovely lady who served us. She must have been a very patient woman, these things could take time.

Sarah France

Mine is going to the shop on my scooter and falling down on the way back onto a gravel slope. I gathered my sweetie bag up (still paper in those days) and clung to them all the way home even though I could barely walk and had blood dripping everywhere. Sweets were my true love ... and still are several decades later

Andrea Hayes

Too many years ago to divulge, I remember my grandad giving me 20 pence pocket money every Saturday and I went straight to the local corner shop and spent far too long deciding what penny sweets to spend it on, that is the remainder of the pennies after loading up my sweety bag with a sizeable amount of refreshers! ❤️

Joanne Bradshaw

Running the tuck shop at youth club on Thursday evenings and making hundreds of mix bags full of fizzers, drumsticks and refresher chews ! Still love the fruity chewy flavours of years gone by. Thanks Swizzlers for the memories you have given me.

Amanda Nicholson

Friday last day of work and I purchase Swizzels lollies. As afternoon drags by the drumsticks get me through taking me back to my childhood days. Yum Yum

Rebecca Woods

When I was 13 I started a paper round and every Saturday morning I would get myself a quarter of Sweet Peanuts. I would then munch through them on my round but to make then last I would suck on them slowly so that I ended up with a thin sweet shell around the salty peanuts. Loved them!! Good memories are precious.

Ian Boyes

About 34 years ago when I was a child I used to buy a quarter of dew drops with my pocket money, curl up in my mum's bed with the TV on, and suck the sugar off the sweets before joining them together in 2's to create sticky little capsules. Much to my mum's dismay I used to then put them on the radiator until they were warm and very sticky before eating them.

Susan Cooper

When I found out drumstick squashies came out i couldn't stop buying them. My mum gave me 1 pound a week; I saved up for 5 weeks then i went to the shops and bought 10 packets . I was walking home and I ate 9 and a half packets. Then I got home and left them on the table and my iguana climbed up and ate the rest of them! I was really upset .

Hamish Reid

I was born in 1952 and in 1962 I won a grand prize of threepence in a school art competition. I took it to my corner sweet shop and bought my favourite swizzels lolly - and will never forget the sheer joy of knowing I had earned every lick!

Jill Rees

Saving up my pocket money and buying The Beano and The Dandy. Chewing on the drumstick lolly that came with them, it's the taste and smell of my childhood and still takes me back to Dennis and Gnasher now.

Mark Deas

My nana giving me 30p on a Sunday for sweets and always buying Parma violets as my sister and brother thought they tasted like soap so I got to eat them all!

My nana giving me 30p on a Sunday for sweets and always buying Parma violets as my sister and brother thought they tasted like soap so I got to eat them all!

Living in London and going to Woolworths to fill a sweet bag up after school. Got a big huge back for a couple of quid, what this day would probably cost you an arm and a leg.

I remember when you could get Cadbury's Roses chocolates in a large plastic jar around Xmas time. After the family had eaten the chocolates my Grandparents would keep the jar and put all my favourite sweets in there including Refresher bars, drumsticks, chocolate, candy necklaces and rings etc and the occasional bag of 10p mix. I used to love dipping my hand in to see what tasty treat I would get. Good times!

My brother (who is 12 years older than me) used to sit inside my wendy house (knowing full well that I loved posting things through the letterbox) and would ask me to post my sweets through the letterbox to him!! which I willingly did! never to be sen again!!

one day I was visiting my gran in New mills when I was around 6, I remember going down the canal and coming up some steps to the back door of the factory and getting some your sweets as a treat by gran I still remember to this day, I'm now 45 and still eating today.
(loadsa chews) there good yum yum

I remember one of the best things about going to birthday parties when we were kids was the Swizzels fizzers in the party bags we took home!