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.

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.

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!

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...

Ahoy! There's a new…read moreconfectioner in (Greenwich) town ... and it's Mr Simms. Not a brand new enterprise as there are other Mr Simms' dotted around the country and not the largest (I have popped in to one in Windsor that was larger) but none-the-less a quality addition to the Greenwich scene. Only small really, you'll enter the shop and the centre of the room is a vacant space for perusing and queueing while the two side walls and behind the counter are lined floor to ceiling with chocolate, fudge, boiled sweets, lollies, marshmallows - really every variety of sweet you can think of and too many differing flavours of each to mention here. I picked up 2 Wham bars (they had 4 flavours in all), a bag of Raspberry and Kiwi boiled sweets and other such delights. I decided against a giant bubblegum flavoured cable and rued that decision later. As great a satisfaction as it is to buy bags of sugary wonderment for taste alone there was also a great feeling of nostalgia as I slowly made my way around gazing at all that was on show, being as wide-eyed as I'd ever been and just imagining how they all tasted. The only disappointment coming from the realisation that I can't take it all with me and I must choose a small selection and be content with that. Which I was, dentists aren't cheap y'know. With disappointment seen off, it was time to make some choices. The whole time I was in there, the soundtrack to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was playing. Mr Simms gets my vote over other similar sweet havens, like Cyber Candy, as they provide a superior quality of sweet and are also cheaper. A lot cheaper. I Love Mr Simms. Can't wait until my next visit. I'll be making enquiries about some sort of loyalty card scheme with them. Will update if the news is positive. FYSR, Ian

Oh.....! Mr Simms, Mr Simms, Mr Simms how i love Mr Simms....I walk in there and i feel like i'm…read moreback in my childhood 5 again. All those sweets...... I can't help it.. i'm jumping for joy (in i'm mind) on all of the choices... Now..! I have gone a little crazy in there and came out with a s***t loads of sweets...! (low voice) NOT GOOD...! (high pitch voice) SUGAR RUSH...! Been careful you could be HOOK in like me.... And yeah it's small but it's full packed of your childhood sweet..

Nice little candy shop found scattered around London has a huge selection of various sweets and…read moreconfections popular here in the UK and a small international section. For a tiny place, we were here a while because there's a lot to choose from. Counter service was courteous and prices aren't anything to complain about either. Will be back and recommended to satisfy your sweet tooth.

When I was younger and lived in the UK I absolutely loved Bon Bon's, especially the lemon ones…read more Now I didn't just like any Bon Bon's I enjoyed the traditional ones, none of the imitation brands. The last decade when going back I've never found good ones in a pick n mix or in the bags at the grocery stores, I was only able to find cheaper versions and then I stumbled across Hardy's in London! Wow they have the most delicious Bon Bon's in every flavor you can possibly think of! I needed them to last a while so I bought a pre mixed bag for around 3 pound that had toffee, apple, blue berry, vimto, lemon, strawberry...you name the flavor and they had it! The other cool thing about this shop for UK residents is that they have all the "American" candy along with Flips pretzels, peanut butter, marshmallow fluff and other goodies. To me I obviously have this stuff everyday but my local friend was just as excited about the American candy and treats as I was with the bon bon's, we definitely walked out with a sugar high!

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

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.