Recently, I was strolling round a seaside town, wandering in and out of shops.  One shop I came across was an old fashioned sweet shop, with a poster claiming that your childhood memories will be relived in this store.  Upon entering I was confronted with hundreds of shelves of old fashioned sweets, the ones which you bought as a young child, and seemed to get millions for pennies.  The nostalgia was overwhelming, and is why I wrote this hub.  Here are 10 of my favourite sweets of my childhood, which unfortunately aren’t sold by many retailers nowadays…

Flying Saucers would cost about 1p each, and would come in a variety of pastel colours.  They would melt in the mouth, leaving you with a mound of fizzy sherbet on your tongue.  Flying Saucers were not to everyone’s taste within my circle of friends, but definitely one to remember.

Fruit Salads were wrapped in an orange and yellow wrapper, and would cost you in the region of 2-3p.  Surprisingly, for something made out of pure sugar, the taste was quite fruity.  It was one of those sweets which you would chew on forever, which made it worth the extra couple of pence.

Candy lipsticks would cost around 5p, probably due to its packaging.  The lipstick was a cylinder shaped raspberry flavoured candy stick which looked like lipstick.  Definitely one for the girls.  The plastic packaging meant you could save some for later- one of the more elegant childhood sweets!

The fun you could have with Cherry Lips!  Balancing this lip-shaped piece of cherry chew-sweet on your mouth was hilarious for the young children who would be willing to fork out around 3p for one of these sweets.  The cherry flavour made this sweet a favourite amongst many.

Chocolate Mice did everything it said on the tin- they were mouse shaped chocolate.  The mice came in either milk chocolate or white chocolate, and would cost about 3p for one.  These were the perfect chocolate fix in a bag full of jellies.

Drumsticks would sell for around 10p, but the extra expense was worth it.  A Drumstick was basically a rectangular piece of raspberry and vanilla chewing candy on a stick, but it tasted delicious.  Definitely one of the top retro sweets.

Gems were either white or chocolate flavoured candy sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.  They sold at 1p each, and tasted magical (probably down to the chocolate hit teamed with the mental image of all of those fabulous colours).  Gems are still one of my favourite sweets but are sadly in short supply.

Love Hearts are one of the classic treats of most people’s childhoods (and are still around today).  For around 20p you could get a whole packet of delicious sweets engraved with romantic messages- perfect for a gift or to keep to yourself.  The good news is that Love Hearts are still around today in many sweet shops.

For around 10p you could experience the magic of a Dip Dab.  The contents included an extra-sweet strawberry lollipop and a good supply of sherbet to dip your lollipop into.  A Dip Dab was one of the main staples in a good bag of carefully selected sweets.

Dolly Beads were a favourite amongst nearly all of my childhood friends, and probably caused the most trouble.  Little beads of candy were weaved through an elastic band which made the perfect catapult for firing at people.  Not much of the candy will have been eaten, due to the firing capabilities of the elastic they were attached to, but one of the greatest and funniest sweets your local sweet shop had to offer.