I am very proud to announce that we have won the Family Business award at “The Star Small Business Awards 2018” at a ceremony held in Sheffield City Centre on Thursday 19th July. Managing Director Richard Pitchfork was there to pick up the award at the Virgin Money Lounge and commented “It is a huge … Continue reading The Star Small Business Awards Winner
I once more turn to 1885 and some information I sent to all of my suppliers so that they knew that they were buying only the most genuine and the most delectable of confectionery. To this day this is still true and, as with the last paragraph of the information below, you can always be … Continue reading A Trusted Quality Mark
There has certainly been a large benjo around my way in the last few weeks with the World Cup matches and I have been watching them with great delight too. I am also enjoying the resurrection of the idea that “football is coming home”! Of course I remember when its home was first built in this … Continue reading Football is Coming Home!!
You must understand first that when I started this great adventure in confection there was not a bicycle to be seen. 20 years after my beginnings here the boneshaker arrived and by jove it did indeed shake my bones. One journey down the local lane gave my body a full batty-fang and that was enough for me. … Continue reading A Penny for your Farthing?
I am old enough to remember the separate Kingdoms, Principalities and States of Germany coming together as one federal Empire in 1871. It is now with the greatest of pleasure that I can announce that leaving us today will be an order of my afternoonified new packaging to Hoxter, a beautiful town in North Rhine-Westphalia. … Continue reading German Customer!!
I am so very excited to be able to share with you our new lines that will be coming out towards May. We have been making Toffee for such a long time using it as a centre to our sweets, especially the fantastic Liquorice & Blackcurrant which has proven to be such a favourite. Today, … Continue reading Toffee
Let me first assure you that I am in fine health as are all of my workers and the factory is dry and working well, this is a tale from over 150 years ago. I was awoken during the night of 11th March 1864 by a maffiking outside of my house. A chuckaboo knocked on … Continue reading The Great flood
In 1885 I wrote a little ditty about my “Celebrated” Mint Rock and I believe that it still is very much true to this day so I have reproduced it for you: The many compounds which have been manufactured by various persons, and palmed upon the public as “Mint Rock,” and thus, by the adoption … Continue reading My Celebrated Mint Rock
On the day of Mr Darwin’s birth 209 years on I remember the jolly chap causing a hullaballoo with his new book. I read in many a newspaper of his rambunctious stories and tales of how we, and many creatures, may have come about. How contrary some of the clergy fellows are becoming in their … Continue reading On the Origin of Species
Yuletide greetings to one and all and also a huge and heartfelt thank you to you all for making 2017 a most splendid year! I am excited and pleased by the growth my rambunctious confections have seen throughout 2017. This is very much down to all of you for supporting and stocking my 6 splendid … Continue reading Merry Christmas one and all!
Charles Butler 