Every Thursday, Dawn has her ‘Lingering Windows Challenge’. This week, I have two very sweet photos for you. The first was taken in Savannah, Georgia. This amazing candy store is housed in one of the waterfront’s old cotton warehouses, and manufactures the best fudge you’ve ever tasted. The wonderful aroma of warm fudge assails your nostrils as you walk up the street, and it’s just a natural reaction, to step inside instead of walking past. Once you’ve succumbed to temptation, there’s no hope for your waistline.
Mr Simm’s Olde Sweet Shoppe in Horsham,England, is based on a pre-war style sweet emporium. With over 1,500 different types of tempting sweets and chocolates, and has often been compared to Willy Wonka’s. On the shelves, there are hundreds of jars of old fashioned sweets, such as sherbet lemons, pear drops, dolly mixtures, wine gums, licorice allsorts, and my own personal favourite, rainbow chocolate drops, which are weighed out and put in a paper bag, just like in the ‘olden days’. As a child, I must have eaten a barrow load of those chocolate drops covered in colourful ‘hundreds and thousands. My Saturday sixpence pocket money always ended up in Mr Clarke’s cash register drawer. How many of you had a similar addiction?
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With that school bus sitting outside there must have been lots of kids in the candy store 🙂
How did you guess? 🙂
You make me crave chocolate now! 🙂
Hahaha. Always, Inga. 🙂
Sweet!
Thanks, Dawn. 🙂
I’m not a sweet treat consumer but my hubby likes these especially the chocolate with white sprinkles. Tempting shop …
A very tempting shop indeed. Not to be visited too often though. 🙂
Forget the windows – Gimme’ the sweets! 😀
Hehehe………You have a sweet tooth, RoSy?
That Savannah building has oodles of character, Ad! Not to mention good taste. 🙂
You’re so right, Jo…….as usual. 😀
Nothing beats a candy store 🙂
Well, apart from a shoe store. 😀
Yes…how silly of me, of course…;-)
We have a wonderful candy shop called Reimer’s in the little town of Three Rivers just before you head into the Sequoia National Park. http://www.reimerscandies.com/home.html It is very gingerbready with three or four rooms chocked full of sweets, so full there’s barely any room for all the people. It is always crowded no matter when you go. When you come see me, I’ll take you there. 🙂
Oh, what a yummy shop! It looks very decadent and totally fattening. You can definitely take me there. I’d better get some elasticated waist trousers for the occasion. 😀
Not you. You seem to eat anything you want, and stay beautiful. I’m sure we can find you some elasticated trousers, though. Let’s just look in my closet… Nope, not…Yup, here they are. Oops, they fell off you. Sorry. 🙂
Hehehe. Whoops-a-daisy. Where did my trousers go to? 😆
Well, Reimers is right on the Kaweah River, and it is rather fast-moving, so they’re out of sight now. Good thing you were wearing your bathing suit underneath! 🙂
Hehehe. A very good thing. 🙂
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pear drops … sherbet lemons … sherbet fountains and coughing and spluttering after sucking it up through the liquorice ‘straw ‘
Lovely to see that old shop there Sylvia !
Oh yes, now you’ve really brought back those memories with the sherbet fountains. I used to end up with it on my nose, and those liquorice sticks went all sticky and limp, but we still kept on buying them. 😀
Oh, no! Here we go again….getting Mugged down Memory Lane!
Love this. Yes, there was a similar shop at the top of our road, Star Lane, when we lived in the town of Ramsay. I was eight, I think? ( working backwards that’s about 150 years ago)
It wasn’t solely a sweet shop though, and I recall the owner selling newspapers and stationary items too.
But I do remember pear drops & dolly mixtures, and huge gobstoppers and sherbet dips, and those long stringy liquorice. What about Bazooka Joe bubblegum – and later Thunderbirds Packets, and Captain Scarlet Packets with bubble gum and cards.
“Now, let’s add up the fillings this year, Ark”
Mugged down Memory lane, Sylvia? More like beaten half senseless..lol.
Hahaha. I also remember the gobstoppers. and the aniseed balls. I had a black tongue for days after. 🙂 I wasn’t allowed to buy bubblegum or chewing gum. My mom thought is was “common.”
Is this a tacit implication that I am common?
” ‘ere, you wot? I’ll tell our Ron on yez.”
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Ron and who’s army? 😀 You can’t scare me.
I love that building Sylvia! Smashing photo! 🙂
Yes it has a gorgeous facade, Adrian. The candy store was an added bonus. 🙂
That took me back! The name of those chocolate drops were driving me crazy. Thank goodness for Google. They are called nonpareils in the U.S. ??? Why the weird name? From the French meaning without equal! I never knew that. Thanks for the time travel. I’m off to the sweet shop. ❤
Thanks, Carol. I found some in England when we were over there last year. I bought some, and am ashamed to say, I ate them all myself. 😳
I love the whole look of the Olde Sweet Shoppe – the colours are just perfect 🙂
Thanks, Tandy. It does look very inviting. 🙂
Mmm… like delicious Sylvia. Amazing photos !
Thanks so much. Glad you liked these. 🙂 xx Have a great weekend.
Nice interpretation! I missed this one somehow as usual!
Thanks, Kathryn. Dawn’s Lingering Windows Challenge is on every Thursday, and you can post when you like. 🙂
Just finished up a delicious sushi roll, could go a handful of chocolate buttons now. 🙂 We dont have stores like this in my town, I’d love to see an little old fashioned lolly shop, hmmm… wonder who I know to petition getting one. Thanks for the stella idea. Happy Friday and have a great weekend. Cheers, Anna
Hahaha. Now you have a mission in life, Anna. 🙂 Happy weekend to you too. xx
Duuuuude you know I’m liking this challenge … It features chocolate 🙂
Well of course. A chocoholic like yourself could go mad in these stores. 😀
I have to make a note for the one in Savannah, GA. for possible visit the area 🙂
Yes, if you do go there, you must visit it. It’s down by the waterfront.
These nonpareils were my go-to for the movie theatre in the 50s and 60s! (Amongst so much other stuff!) 🙂
Glad I brought back sweet memories for you, Linda. 🙂
pass the wine gums 😛 let’s hope these little candy shops (and quaint bookshops) never disappear. love them and your photographs! 🙂
Oh, I also loved wine gums. As a child, I thought they were very daring and hoped I wouldn’t get drunk. 😀
We have a Mr Simms in a nearby town – I try not to visit too often. 😉
I wonder how often is “too often”? 😀
You had me at the word ‘candy’, Sylvia! 😀
I’m sure you’re quite sweet enough, Dianne, with all that sugar cane around you. 🙂
LOL 😀
Been to the one in Georgia. Loved it! When I was very young, I would walk to the corner and make a quick left and head into Mary’s Candy Store. She had a counter and all the “older folks” would sit and smoke and have coffee and chat. Me? I’d pick up a pack of “smokes” for my dad for 20 plus cents and some tasty red licorice for me. Thanks for the memories, Sylvia. 🙂
You’re welcome, Gemma. I also used to go and buy my dad’s cigarettes. How times have changed. 🙂
Beautiful! I have a sudden craving for “Sherbet Lemons”!! 🙂
Hahaha. Just thinking about those Sherbet Lemons makes my mouth water. 🙂
Sorry I just ate all of the virtual candy!
Oh no!! I was hoping everyone here would have a share. 🙂
I’m a glutton and have no self control. My apologies! I’ll buy a virtual round for everyone!
Bananas and shrimps for me 😉
Oh yes, Gilly. Now that’s really brought back more sweet memories. 🙂
good to read such fond childhood memories, Sylvia. as a child, whatever small change i got all went to the store for candies and sweets! nice pictures 🙂
Thanks, Lola. I loved my ‘sweeties’ as a child. Now I’m more into savoury things, unless there’s dark chocolate available. 🙂
I have never been to Savannah but have heard it is a lovely town. I also love sweets so would have a “sweet” time! (he he).
Yes it’s definitely a great place to visit, Nicole. You and your children would have a very sweet time in that candy store. 🙂
Love the photos….and now I am craving chocolate!!! 🙂
Thanks for liking my pics, and I’m sorry about the resultant craving. 🙂
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Love the word “Purveyors”. So very English 😉
Isn’t it just? 🙂 Today’s vocabulary is sadly lacking in such wonderful words.
wow makes the child in me so happy
Happy to know that, Marylou. 🙂
Counting the fillings in my teeth as a consequence of goodies like those in my tuck box that I took to boarding school with me each term as a child! I particularly blame lemon sherbets D:
Nowadays, fudge is the only sweet I ever eat but not too often, as it gives me mouth ulcers. And I’m allergic to chocolate.
Oh, the injustice of it all.
Oh that’s really not fair at all, Sarah. Yes those boiled sweets really kept our school dentist busy. 😦
Mr Simms seems just the place for me… love your photos…
Thanks, bulldog. That doesn’t surprise me in the least. 🙂
Finding shops like that which still exist is a rare find indeed. I would want to buy something in it just for the experience 🙂
Yes, one can’t go in and not buy something. That was my excuse. 🙂
Looks delicious! I grew up in a rural area and when we went to town it usually included a trip to the General store for some goodies. 🙂
Thanks, Sue. It’s nice to have a sweet treat once in a while………..or a bit more often. 🙂