Now In: About Us

The first store was opened in Perth Western Australia in 2002 by husband and wife team Eddie & Deborah Croft.

 

The idea came from growing up in England and having fond childhood memories of going on a Friday night armed with pocket money to the local sweet shop. Big decisions had to be made what to buy , eventually choosing after looking at  all of the jars full of sweets on the shelves, not an easy decision, what would it be tonight a quarter of pear drops or a quarter of chewing nuts.

 

We have tried to recreate that in The British Lolly Shops, we import over 400 different types of British sweets displaying them in jars on the shelves. The atmosphere of the shop is very light and cheerful encouraging our customers to have a free sample of their old favourite or maybe try a new one.

 

At our customers request we expanded our business opening the next shop in Darling Harbour in Sydney, the next one was opened in Cairns Queensland. Deborah's sister Karen and partner Alec decided to join the business and moved from the UK to open the first shop in New Zealand in Queenstown.

 

With a huge demand and an ever increasing product range we decided it was time to franchise the business, the first being Kings Cross in Sydney with Peter & Sally Shaw at the helm, what a great job they do already being nominated & winning  "The Best New & Innovative Small Business for the City Of Sydney 2006".

 

The next franchise was Marla Lane at Cairns , Marla has introduced a new following which is the Japanese tourist having taken the initiative of having the sweets description being translated into Japanese again trying to make everyone feel welcome even if there is a language barrier.

 

Our latest venture is in the beautiful setting of the Hunter Valley Gardens Village, (Pokolbin NSW)