The Sweet Shop

The Sweet Shop is inspired by "The Oldest Sweet Shop in England”, located in the Yorkshire Dales village of Pateley Bridge, United Kingdom.

The Right side of this piece resides The Sweet Shop, and the Left side resides The Coffee House.  It has a unique exterior texture, along with detailed window scenes for each shop.

The Sweet Shop is the newest addition to the Old World Collection.

Historical Background of the Oldest Sweet Shop in England:

The Oldest Sweet Shop in England has been stocking their shelves with hundreds of bottles and jars of sweets of every variety, size, shape and flavour since 1827.  The building which the shop is residing dates back to 1661, and is one of the oldest buildings in Pateley Bridge. The shop was inducted into Guinness World Records in 2014 as the Oldest Sweet Shop in the World until 2020, being replaced by the roughly 1,000 year old shop Ichimonjiya Wasuke, located in Kyoto, Japan.

Pateley Bridge (known locally as Pateley), is a small market town in Nidderdale in North Yorkshire, England.  Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies on the River Nidd. It is in the Yorkshire Dales and just outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

This family run business offers over 200 traditional glass jars containing nearly every conceivable type of confectionary.  Some of the traditional sweets found here include liquorice and lime sweets, sour sherbet dips in paper bags, humbugs in glass jars, white mice, rhubarb and custard sweets, bon bons, and many, many, many more.

Visiting this shop will transport you back in time with a traditional interior, working your bill out using pen and paper, and even the till used is over 120 years old.