This retro photo gallery, stretching back more than 100 years, features several of the businesses which have given us our sugar fix over the decades. Some have been lost, while others are still going strong.
The nostalgic images show ice cream being sold from vans and at shops around the city. They also show sweets – still referred to by some Sheffielders as ‘spice’ – being manufactured.
![A motorbike ice cream van in Dore, Sheffield, with brothers, Mr Christian H. Kars, left, and Mr Theodore Bangert, right.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOmMzMTQ1YjQ2LTgzZTAtNDY1NC1iMTkwLTk5YWM4NDIwOTBkMjo2YTIyZWRkOC0zN2M2LTQyY2EtYmFmOC0yYjZlN2IxY2NmNTI=.png?crop=3:2&width=640)
5. Motorbike ice cream van
A motorbike ice cream van in Dore, Sheffield, with brothers, Mr Christian H. Kars, left, and Mr Theodore Bangert, right. Photo: Picture Sheffield/Gordon S. Bangert
![This Sheffield postcard from the early 20th century features an advertisement for 'Merrills patent ices and custard powder'. A. A. Merrills had stores on Lansdowne Road and Broad Street.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOmQwNjQ4ZjkwLTQ5YjEtNDgxOS04NDc3LWRhZWI3ZTVhYTllYzo0NTcxYzdlZS00OWVlLTRhMmQtOGY3Zi04ZjE0Y2Q1YTMxZGU=.png?crop=3:2&width=640)
6. 'Ices and custard powder'
This Sheffield postcard from the early 20th century features an advertisement for 'Merrills patent ices and custard powder'. A. A. Merrills had stores on Lansdowne Road and Broad Street. Photo: Picture Sheffield/Tim Hale Photographic Collection
![An ice cream vendor and a drinking fountain can be seen in this photo of Moorhead, looking towards Pinstone Street, in Sheffield city centre, in 1885.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjExNWI4MzJiLThkOGQtNDk4Ny1iMmViLWI1NjFhNTMzNjQyNzo1NGNiMGVmOC1mODBlLTQyNmMtYTRjMS04YWMyNzhjYmIyMTM=.png?crop=3:2&width=640)
7. Moorhead
An ice cream vendor and a drinking fountain can be seen in this photo of Moorhead, looking towards Pinstone Street, in Sheffield city centre, in 1885. Photo: Picture Sheffield
![Middlewood Dairy Ices, on Middlewood Road, Sheffield, looking towards Foxhill. The business was owned by Theodore Bangert.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOmNkNDAwYThmLTY1N2EtNDkzNS1iMDA4LTQ0YjEzNmRlNThiMTpkNmQ2ZDA0Zi1kZjFmLTQ0NzItYjAxNy05NDZlMTJhNmJjZmU=.png?crop=3:2&width=640)
8. Middlewood Dairy Ices
Middlewood Dairy Ices, on Middlewood Road, Sheffield, looking towards Foxhill. The business was owned by Theodore Bangert. Photo: Picture Sheffield/Gordon S. Bangert