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At 5.20pm Gloria Tordoff spoke to Simon Mayo live on BBC Radio 2 on the drive time show! They spoke about our shop with its low timber ceiling and shelves groaning under the weight of the glass jars filled with sweets and how the sweets are still made in Britain! Simon named the king of all sweets as Sherbet Lemons (his favourite of course!). Listen to Gloria talking to Simon by going onto our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/oldestsweetshop

MSN has selected us as the 'NUMBER 1' sweet shop in the country. Click on MSN logo below to see! A big thank you to all our supporters and of course customers both at the shop and online. We are very proud and intend to continue just as we always have with a passion about our history and sweets and to continue offering our personal service.

February 2011 Facebook

The Oldest Sweet Shop has now got a Facebook page. Please feel free to join and add comments.

February 2011 Market Kitchen, Good Food Channel

Pontefract Cakes from the Oldest Sweet Shop will featured be in an episode of Market Kitchen in February!

January 2011 Food Gourmet Tour

The Oldest Sweet Shop and other prestigious establishments e.g. Bettys Tea Rooms and Yorke Arms are included in the Gourmet North Yorkshire Tour run by the company www.theyorkshiretourcompany.com

January 2011 101 Amazing things to do in Great Britain

The Oldest Sweet Shop has been featured in an application you can download onto your Kindle - an E-book called 101 Amazing things to do in Great Britain. A best seller in the UK category of Budget travel guides. It is available on Amazon's Kindle, and Kindle applications for Mobile phones and Pc's. Author: Harry Warraich.

January 2011 Wilko Mints

After a few years of campaigning by ourselves and customers, the popular Wilko Mints has been brought BACK into production and now available to buy. We are the first sweet shop in country to have them back in stock!

January 2011 YUM Magazine

YUM! Magazine available in major supermarkets, an editorial about sweets by sweet expert Keith Tordoff of the Oldest sweet shop in England Pateley Bridge. Available Janurary 2011.

November 2010 ITV News

ITV Calendar regional news Oldest sweet shop featured as part of a clue in a jigsaw competition to identify the area from clues provided on a daily basis over a week. The area was of course Pateley Bridge where the Oldest sweet shop is.

October 2010

South America Brazil's National Newspaper a feature about the history of the Oldest sweet shop and it's best selling sweets.

July 2010 Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane B Road Britain TV programme featuring the Oldest sweet shop shown on ITV3.

April 2010 Jap Desserts

You heard it here first (this message posted 25/03/10) Jap desserts will very soon be back on our shelves! The Jap Desserts will be available to buy online sometime in April. Jap Desserts are made of cubes of coconut covered with a sugar paste (Jap is an old fashioned term for coconut).

April 2010 Saga Magazine

Four page article quoting Keith Tordoff and his expertise on sweets. The Oldest sweet shop is number 1 sweet shop and number 1 online sweet retailer in the country!

April 2010 Jasper Conran's Country

Watch out for the Oldest sweet shop in the beautifully photographed book 'Country' by the designer Jasper Conran.

11th March 2010 Vogue Magazine

The Guardian Calander 2010!

The picture of the Oldest sweet Shop's jars featured in The Guardian newspaper's Eyewitness on 14th July 09 can now be seen in the Guardian's 2010 calender!

Saturday 21st November The Independent

The Oldest sweet shop was featured in the Information Magazine's 'The 50 Best Food Shops'. Nicola Whiteford, editor of Great British Food Magazine, describes the shop as "a little gem that takes you right back to childhood. Packed full with all those traditional sweets this shop is one place where anyone with a sweet tooth will feel at home."

Saturday 31st October 2009 The Times

26th September 2009 The Guardian

The Oldest sweet shop was featured in the pull out section 'Full English'. The article was about 'English 10 Minute treats' and how to 'satisfy your sweet tooth in Nidderdale!' Click on the picture below to read the article.

September 2009 The National Geographic book

The National Geographic Book "Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe" features The Oldest sweet shop In England in it's top 10 sweet Shops to visit!

14th July 2009 The Guardian

The Oldest sweet shop In England was featured as a double page spread in the Guardian.

August 2009 Issue of the Yorkshire Ridings Magazine

This month's issue covers Pateley Bridge and talks about the Oldest sweet shop In England

Saturday 02nd July 2009 Yorkshire Post

Renowned Electric Violinist Alexandra Parker stated her favourite shop was the Oldest sweet shop In England

"Do you have a favourite food shop?
There's "The Oldest sweet shop in England" in Pateley Bridge, and it's been going since 1827, and has every sweetie that you could ever dream of, and ace chocolate as well. They still use the old weighing scales and an old-fashioned till."

Updated Website on 24th June 2009

We hope you like our revised website. Having established the site in 2005 we were aware certain areas of the site needed updating including the facility to retrieve your details when ordering again. The site payment facility which is now operated through SagePAY is fully secure and we neither see nor hold your card details. We hope you enjoy using the site and thank all our loyal customers for their continued support and look forward to dealing with new visitors to the site.

Pictures by Reuters Monday 30th March 2009

Following a visit by the Reuters newspaper photographer Nigel Roddis, the Oldest sweet shop was featured worldwide on the front pages of National Newspapers including Shanghai, New Zealand, South Africa and Malta. To see the images featured, please click on the picture below.

ITV1, The Alan Titchmarsh Show 4th February 2009

At 3pm on Wednesday 4th February 2009, Keith and Gloria Tordoff proprietors of the Oldest sweet shop In England appeared live on the Alan Titchmarsh Show. This programme was aired on ITV1 and the theme for the programme was affordability in difficult economic times. Sweets talked about included Pear Drops, Coltsfoot Rock Sticks, Marry Me Quick and the penny sweets Black Jacks and Fruit Salads.

Keith and Gloria Tordoff with the celebrity Alan Titchmarsh. Alan Titchmarsh is holding a Mega Giant Gobstopper and a Giant Gobstopper!

BBC2, 6.30pm Wednesday 2nd April 2008
‘Great British Menu'

Glynn Purnell cooks veal fillet rolled in liquorice charcoal with tamarind jam. The liquorice was bought from the Oldest sweet shop in England!

Picture: Owner Keith Tordoff with celebrity Chef Glynn Purnell AKA Yummy Brummy!

ITV1, 9pm August 22nd 2007
‘Robbie Coltrane's B-Road Britain'

Robbie visits The Oldest sweet shop in England and purchases bags of sweets for his journey.
The three part series starts on Wednesday 15th August.

Stray FM Interview ‘The Oldest sweet shop'

On Wednesday August 1st 2007, ‘Yorkshire Day', interviewer Alex Cann from the radio station reported live from the Oldest sweet shop.

Virgin Radio, Tuesday 3rd April 2007

The station had a live public vote for the listeners to nominate the ‘Best sweet shop In Britain'. Short listed to three sweet shops, the Oldest sweet shop got a massive 87% of the vote getting the ‘Best sweet shop In Britain' as voted by Virgin Radio listeners.

BBC Olive Magazine, May 2007

The May edition of the BBC Olive food magazine declared the ‘Oldest sweet shop In England' as one of the ‘Thirty foodie must dos' in Britain.

Yorkshire Post Magazine, Saturday February 17th 2007

An article based on one of Yorkshire's favourite market town, Pateley Bridge includes ‘The Oldest sweet shop'

Deliciously Dales Book is released, August 2006

Oldest sweet shop featured as one of the food lovers guide to the Yorkshire Dales.
Foreword is by the celebrity chef James Martin
ISBN: 190508014x

Picture: Deliciously Dales Book

Prima Magazine, August 2006

Britain's Best Breaks, July 2005 - June 2006

BritainsBestBreaks.tv features the Oldest sweet shop on their half hour show on
‘Life TV' for 1 year.

Daily Mail Magazine, Saturday 28th January 2006

Daily Mail Magazine, Saturday 21st January 2006

Nidderdale Herald Friday 2nd December 2005

Article about Oldest sweet shop being featured in a hardback publication ‘The Oldest'. The photographs in the book are by Julian Calder, and the book is written by Alastair Bruce, one of The Queen's Officer of Arms.

BBC Radio York Live, November 2005

‘The Oldest' In Celebration of Britain's Living History, Monday 31st October 2005

The book is released featuring article about Oldest sweet shop and the book is a introduction of Britain's living history.
Authors: Julian Calder and Alistair Bruce
ISBN: 1-84403-080-6

BBC1 Breakfast News, 8.40am Monday 31st October 2005

Julian Calder author of "The Oldest" interviewed about the book live on BBC1
Author of ‘The Oldest' Julian Calder talks live on air mentioning Oldest sweet shop In England as one of places featured in the book.

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