If you’ve ever been tempted by the retro sweets we’ve featured here, perhaps you would also be interested in these vintage-style Candystore Glass Jars
Each jar measures 18cm high by 11cm wide with a volume of 1 litre and they are sold in sets of three. Of course, most of us don’t hoard sweets, so a more practical use might be for storing tea, coffee and sugar.
They cost just £10 from Colloco.
We've got a sweet tooth here at Retro To Go (or in other words, send us sweet things!), so it's hardly a surprise that we're tempted by the Selfridges Selection range of sweets.
They're old fashioned style sweets, such as strawberry and creams, sherbet pips, cola cubes and the rhubarbs and custards that are pictured, which are all handmade using traditional methods. Each style of sweets is sold in a retro style bottle, complete with retro Selfridges lettering. Great to give as a present – and probably even better to scoff for yourself.
The sweets cost £5.09 a jar.
Buy them online
Artist Sarah Graham is a realist painter obsessed with vivid colours, toys and sweets, so most of her pieces have a retro theme.
Pictured here is her Routemaster box canvas which features a toy Routemaster bsu recreated in bright colours . Other pieces feature toy VW campervans, vintage Barbies, liquorice allsorts and other penny sweets. Prices range £199 to £595.
View her whole range at Artisan Galleries.
Remember when you used to save up your pennies and head to the newsagents to splash out on 100 fried egg sweets or red lips? Now with these personalised pick and mix sweet jars you can recreate the feeling with the sweets you want.
This time you can pick the size of the jar, the type of sweets and the message on the outside creating a wonderful gift to someone (or to yourself). Dependent on how much of a sweet tooth you are, there's three sizes of jars to choose from and if you're being really angelic, you can fill one with healthy fruit and nut treats.
Get yours from posh pick and mix online.
This Retro Sweets Union Jack Print has been created by the company Swings and Pretty Things.
The print consists of lettering spelling out the names of some favourite retro sweets, including Sherbet Lemons, Black Jacks, Wine Gums, Refreshers and Dolly Mixtures with the phrase “A Quarter Of” in the centre of the picture. The text is arranged and coloured in the pattern of the Union Jack, to add to its retro appeal. The print is stretched around a box canvas, and is available in a choice of four sizes, with the smallest measuring 300mm x 450mm and the largest 665mm x 1000mm.
Prices range from £110 up to £200. Buy online from Swings and Pretty Things.
We're staying on a vintage sweets tip with focus on these rather wonderful Love Hearts Tealights.
Yes, on the face of it, as package of the classic Love Hearts sweets. But this is bigger than that, with the packet containing six tealights, each one shaped like a sweet and with the same sloppy message of love on the top.
Three designs over the six lights included, with a packet selling for £4.99. And note – you can't eat them.
