I love the Hope and Greenwood website, packed full of vintage sweets, with a website that’s the equivalent of a 1950s country shop. And as well as the retro sweets, there’s also some great children’s hampers, included this collection on a vintage-style suitcase.
Which means that once your little ones have polished off the sweets, they get a colourful suitcase to take on holiday or to store a few bits and pieces. In terms of contents, you get a festive mix including a giant gold chocolate coin, a frosty snowman chocolate lolly, a bag of traditional sweets, pink and white sugar mice and some Christsas chocolate balls.
In a choice of colours, the suitcase and sweets retails for £30.
Find out more at the Hope and Greenwood website
In the days before video games, every boy wanted a train set for Christmas. And whilst some replica steam engines may fail to excite, this Mountain Railway still has a charm that is sure to appeal to some children as well as anyone who hasn’t grown out of toy trains.
I will admit to being somewhat sceptical when I first saw the RAF Collection catalogue that fell out of my Sunday supplement.
