You can buy sweets in Battle from our own Victorian Sweet Shop, which is located in the Yesterday’s World Shop opposite Battle Abbey. Our friendly staff who wear traditional Victorian Maid costumes and shop keeper attire and are trained to offer customers a traditional service to the highest standard. Whether you are looking for home-made fudge, a quarter of sweets or even a customised hamper for that special gift, Yesterday’s World can help.

Here at Yesterday’s World we have our very own Chocolate Shop display in the museum, which evokes fond memories for many visitors, not least for its evocative ‘penny twist’ smell! A recent addition to the old fashioned sweet shop, which made headlines in our news and events section in 2005 was a collection of over 100 tins, jars and packages of sweets, discovered last summer in a disused storeroom.

Many of the varieties, which include brands such as Dulcet Pastille Fruits, Jelly Fish and Lyon’s Double Hit that are no longer produced today had remained unopened from fifty years ago and still had their original price tickets in pounds, shilling and pence. The discovery at Folkestone Bus Depot caused quite a media sensation and made BBC Radio 2 news, as well as attracting lots of local interest.