Retro Sweets

A Quarter Of isn’t just about selling sweets… it’s just as much about sending you on a trip down memory lane.  So, if you’re a child of the 50s, feast your eyes on these fab pages, filled to the brim with people’s reminiscences – ranging from sweets, to food, to toys and games.  It’ll really take you back to the good old days!

Just click on each of the sections below to reminisce to your heart's content!!!

Sweets
Food
Toys
Games
Schooldays
Hobbies
Comics
Television
Memories From One Of Our Customers

We're trying to create an ever-growing record of 50s reminiscences, so we need YOUR HELP! We would love you to contribute any of your memories from 1950s British life - it could be related to anything at all: your favourite comic, your (measly, if any) pocket money or weeklytreat, your family Sunday lunch... anything at all that has stuck in your memory all this time. Even better, we'd love to see any old pictures you may have. Thisis going to be a pretty fab historical document - you'll go down in history by contributing!

How to contribute! Simply email our in-house history anorak Sol on: sol@aquarterof.co.uk

All quotations in the above section were taken from a fab book by publishers Michael O’Mara, ‘The 50s & 60s – The Best Of Times’.  Our pals there gave us kind permission to use this fantastic material.  If you want to read more (it’s a cracking good read!), you can order a copy by following this link:
http://www.mombooks.com/html/book.php?book=1843170655

brand new 50s boxes of nostalgia

If you would like to send a 50s Decade Box of Nostalgia to someone who grew up in that era (we get stacks of requests for them), we’ve done our homework and put together one of our super wooden boxes containing lots of treats that were around then. An original gift that is sure to bring all those childhood memories flooding back!

The 50s Nostalgia Box contains:
Barratts Sweet Cigarettes
Sherbet Fountain
Pontefract Cakes
Sherbet Lemons
Black Jacks
Fruit Salads
Rhubarb and Custard
Dolly Mixtures
Gobstoppers
Spanish Honey and Butter
Pear Drops
Liquorice Wood
Liquorice Comfits

If you'd like to order one now (or see more information), just click HERE