Treasure Island Sweets

Ohhh I absolutely love these traditional old-​style sweet shops because they bring back all my childhood memories! This particular one is stacked with old favourites, you know like rosy apples, flying saucers, liquorice sticks, rhubarbs and custards, and all the big jars that go by weight. This place is actually like a miniature sweet haven — and I guarantee you it will bring back some old childhood memories!
Treasure Island Sweets is a pretty small place, but they cram it full and there are so many treats to look through — and the staff are all so friendly! No bad points at all — and the prices are great — definitely check this out if you have a sweet tooth! Their website is also worth checking out as it has an even bigger selection of sweets available — but if you do this, make sure you get your money’s worth because postage on it’s own is nearly £4!

Treasure Island Sweets can be found in the centre of St. Nich’s Market in Bristol and you are literally spoilt for choice, you feel like you are surrounded by thousands of sweets! Like some sort of kid in some sort of candy store.
They actually house over 500 varieties of sweets, from the traditional humbag to the futuristic ‘Wham!’ bar this shop has it covered. The staff are great, most importantly they are very patient — I found it very hard to come to a decision! I was torn between a selection of my childhood favourites — Dib Dabs and Sherbert Lollies — and the more traditional White Mice or Toffee Crumble. In the end I opted for lots: Liquorice Tobacco, Milk Bottles, White Mice, Toffee Crumble and a sherbert Dib Dab!
Greedy I know but well worth it, and considering my loot and the portions I did not pay a bad price at all.
I truly love this shop, and whether I give into temptation or not I like to pay them a visit each time I go to St. Nich’s Market. Who needs teeth anyway!

Remember Sherbert Dips, a quarter of Rhubarb and Custards, and bars of creamy Caramac? Well, you can relive those memories all over again at Treasure Island Sweets in St Nicholas Market.
It’s a colourful cave of a shop offering a nostalgic journey through the sweets of your childhood, and it’s a great place to buy stocking fillers or gifts for friends who are difficult to shop for.
You can buy bags of sweets in quarters, weighed out into white paper bags just like they were back in the days, and the staff there are used to hearing people squeal ‘Remember these?’ — and will happily leave you to browse for as long as you like.

What an amazing shop this is! Remember when your local shop had all the sweets in jars behind the counters and you’d go down with all your pennies and tuppences and buy 20 ha’penny sweets! Talk about a trip down memory lane, except ha’penny doesn’t exist anymore and you’ll pay considerably more than 10p for a few sweets! It has wham bars, toffee, white mice, chocolate mice, fudge, bon bons, pear drops, licourice, chocolate, sherbert… sugary delights galore. The only nostalgic sweet I miss and can’t find here are the white chocolate mice with raspberry sauce filling. Yum, yum.
Great place to buy little presents for birthdays or Christmas stocking fillers (the candy canes from here are amazing!)

What happened to these shops? When I was a kid even my local Bakers in West Sussex had an entire shelf dedicated to these large colourful jars filled to the brim with every sweet imaginable. Now this Bakers is a Tesco’s Express :(
Treasure Island Sweets. Even the name brings a small sense of childhood excitement when I read it. Inside it is every child (and adults!) dream, with every single type of sweet you can imagine. And best of all, the staff don’t seem to mind that I spent a good half hour browsing.

Ah, a good, old-​fashioned sweet shop. Fantastic. Walking into this place makes me feel like I’m 7 years old again, as I gaze around at the many colourful jars and packets. There wasn’t a sweet shop like this where I lived as a kid, but Roald Dahl books kept the dream alive — and now is when I get the chance to live it for real. Actually, as it happens, I’m not really big on sweets these days, but this place is selling the dream as much as the candy. Plus, it’s a great place to get presents for anyone who is hard to buy for, as you can’t go far wrong with these tasty treats.

Some people claim to have a sweet tooth. I have a whole mouth full of ‘em and Treasure Island Sweets is where I go to take them on a holiday. A holiday to a world of sugar and nostalgia, where sweets are bought by the ounce and served up in brown paper bags.
I’ve seen grown business men turned into school children while ordering bags of bonbons or boiled sweets. And who can blame them? With shelves full of flying saucers, pink shrimps and sherbet to choose from you’ll be hard pushed not to go into frenzy yourself. They make excellent stocking fillers and presents for kids — young or old.
Treasure Island also has a stellar website for when you’re too overweight to move from your armchair!

Sour strawberry ropes, apple and custard chews, dracula fangs, flying saucers… drooooooool. This is like the sweet shop of your childhood fantasy, stacked with jars of sweets to weigh out as well as the old corner shop favourites. Go with a friend so you can spend time reminiscing and exclaiming ‘Oh wow! I remember these!’ at least three times a minute. Amazingly the staff don’t seem to get bored of the wide-​eyed customers and love pointing out things you may not have tried (top tip: don’t bother with plain liquorish anymore, get their honey liquorish). I found this a great place to buy little presents if you are a bit strapped for cash, as you can’t put a price on the joy of opening a paper bag of jelly snakes…