Latest News from the Oldest Sweet Shop
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 Oldest Sweet Shop is featured in the 'Vogue's Sweetie Jar' page!
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
The Oldest Sweet Shop was featured in "A Thousand Words" article on page 4.
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
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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.
Keith & Gloria
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.
Picture: Robbie Coltrane with Keith and Gloria Tordoff.
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.
Picture: Alex Cann from Stray FM
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'
Picture: Gloria Tordoff
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
Featured as a writer's favourite shop to visit.
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.
Click here to view the clip (WMV format)
Daily Mail Magazine, Saturday 28th January 2006
‘Take Two' features Oldest Sweet Shop's Snowies and Jazzies
Daily Mail Magazine, Saturday 21st January 2006
‘Take Two' Features Oldest Sweet Shop's Rose and Violet Creams
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.
Picture: Kirsty Shepherd & Alexander Tordoff advertises ‘The Oldest'
BBC Radio York Live, November 2005
Live interview with Keith Tordoff Proprietor of the Oldest Sweet Shop.
‘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.
Daily Mail, Monday 24th October 2005
Oldest Sweet Shop featured as a national treasure.
December 2004 - Yorkshire Life magazine.
Oldest sweet shop in article about the town of Pateley Bridge.
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