Some of these producers and sellers of sweets, chocolates and ice creams are long gone, others fondly remembered and some still with us, such as Thornton’s - a household name which began as a Sheffield business - Granelli’s and Zaika.
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Sweet treats of days gone by Photo: Picture Sheffield
. Ice cream treat
Theresa Caira (nee Marcontonio) and an Achille Caira Ice Cream cart with the address 11 Broomhall Street in the late 1950s. Ref no: v03901 Photo: Picture Sheffield
. Sweet secret
Charles Butler, Manufacturing and Retail Confectioner, 60 Snig Hill and 11, 54 and 56 Fargate. This is an 1886 advertisement for Charles Butler's world-famed mint rock, claiming: "It warms! It invigorates!!" Ref no: y12411 Photo: Picture Sheffield
. Vintage Thornton's
Ivy Clow (later Yates) outside Thornton's Chocolate Kabin on the corner of Howard Street and Union Street in 1920. Picture Sheffield ref no: a05159 Photo: Picture Sheffield
1. Ice cream treat
Theresa Caira (nee Marcontonio) and an Achille Caira Ice Cream cart with the address 11 Broomhall Street in the late 1950s. Ref no: v03901 Photo: Picture Sheffield
2. Sweet secret
Charles Butler, Manufacturing and Retail Confectioner, 60 Snig Hill and 11, 54 and 56 Fargate. This is an 1886 advertisement for Charles Butler's world-famed mint rock, claiming: "It warms! It invigorates!!" Ref no: y12411 Photo: Picture Sheffield
3. Vintage Thornton's
Ivy Clow (later Yates) outside Thornton's Chocolate Kabin on the corner of Howard Street and Union Street in 1920. Picture Sheffield ref no: a05159 Photo: Picture Sheffield
4. Middlewood ice cream
A 1950s ice cream van belonging to Middlewood Dairy Ices, 474, Middlewood Road. Ref no: v00619 Photo: Picture Sheffield