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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.   We would be grateful for any feedback about the revised website by e-mailing feedback@oldestsweetshop.co.uk.

Keith & Gloria

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 Titichmarsh is holding a Megga 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.