Sweet Shop
No visit to The 1900s Town is complete without a trip to Jubilee Confectioners!
See mouth-watering sweets being made in the factory before choosing what traditional treats to take home.
Will it be cinder toffee or bon bons?
Our Sweet Shop is the perfect place for those with a sweet tooth!
Jubilee Confectioners was built to represent a typical town sweet shop, selling a whole host of mouth-watering treats.
Visit the factory at the back of the shop to see how sweets are made, using techniques and equipment from the era.
Most sweet shops in the 1900s would be small and family-run with the family often living above the shop.
North East sweets
Popular North East sweets included black bullets, cinder toffee, blacks and rasps and fish in the sea.
Sweet makers in the region included George W Horner and Co of Chester-le-Street, Redheads of Blyth, J Welch of Whitley Bay and J Vose of Durham (whose mint rock was promoted as being “invaluable to mental as well as physical workers”).
Sweets were originally developed for medicinal reasons, to make tablets more palatable.
They were soon sold for flavour alone but some were promoted for health, such as sarsaparilla tablets, popular on Wearside, which were advertised as being good for blood circulation and rheumatic pains.
Peruse the menu
Buy our sweets online
Every purchase supports Beamish Museum.Jubilee Confectioners are delighted to offer our fantastic range of Beamish sweets, from locally made chocolate to our famous boiled sweets and everything in between!
