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  • SPECIAL OFFER - 15% OFF ONLINE ORDERS

    With Father's Day just around the corner next month we thought we'd treat our loyal customers to an extra 15% OFF online orders at Bah Humbugs over £10 when being sent to a UK address.

    To get your hands on the discount, you just need to enter offer code BAHHUMBUGS onto the checkout page and the discount will be applied automatically. Valid until the end of May 2016.

    Dads are always hard to buy for, but our Sweet Hampers and Sweet Buckets are a great gift for dads - transporting them on a happy, nostalgic trip down memory lane. Take a look at these gifts below and we're certain there will be something to tempt your dad's taste buds!!

    We imagine these will be our best sellers for Father's Day this year:-

    Lion's Sweet Hamper - complete with the full current selection of Lion's Sweets... Midget Gems (proper ones!), Sports Mixtures, Fruit Salads, Fruit Pastilles, Poor Bens, Liquorice Gums & Wine Gums. It weighs a whopping 1.6kg and is totally scrumptious!

    1950s Fabulous Fifties Decade Sweet Hamper - 1.5kg of sweets from the 1950s including Pontefract Cakes, Dolly Mixture, Barley Sugars, Liquorice Root & Loads more!

    Liquorice Sweet Hamper - super selection of our best selling liquorices, including Ponteract Cakes, Liquorice Cream Rock, Catherine Wheels, Liquorice Sticks, Liquorice Toffees, Liqourice All Sorts, Blackcurrant & Liquorices & more!

    1960s Swinging Sixties Decade Sweet Hamper - 1.5kg selection of all the sweets that were popular in the 1960s, Torepdoes, Coconut Mushrooms, Rhubarb & Custards, Mintoes & lots of Retro Delights like Parma Violets, Fizzers, Drumsticks etc!

    decade sweet buckets The Bah Humbugs Decade Sweet Hampers
  • Bah Humbugs - Make the Most of Masham

    Hello from the Team at Bah Humbugs!

    If you're local then it's a great time to be in and around Masham, especially if you're looking for a little shopping discount with a bonus!  If you're not local and planning on visiting us for a holiday, or you're just passing through you can still join our Make the Most of Masham loyalty card scheme and benefit from the discounts and offers available.

    What you get...

    For £5 you get a beautiful cotton bag with with an illustration by local artist Rob Blades, and a membership card for the Make the Most of Masham Scheme which entitles you to various discounts, benefits and offers at many local businesses.  You can buy your bag and membership card here at Bah Humbugs, @bahhumbugs, and every time you spend £10 or more you will get a 10% discount so, if you're looking to stock up on your sweets, buy a gift from our great range of Decade Buckets, Retro Hampers, Sweet Buckets, or many others options then this gives you a fabulous discount. Bags are also available at Masham Community Office, @VisitMasham, and a few other participating shops. Why not pop in to get yours? For more info go to the Visit Masham website

    Bag Illustration by Rob Blades

    Bag Illustration by Rob Blades

     

    Support for Masham

    We are also very excited about the support we are getting from Stray FM at the moment! @StrayFM are getting ready to launch a three month 'flag-waving' campaign to promote our town, so tune in and make sure you keep up to date with what's going on.

    We look forward to you popping in and grabbing your bag!

     

     

  • TANGERINE CONFECTIONERY STOP MANUFACTURE OF LION'S SPORTS MIXTURES

    Here  at Bah Humbugs Sweet Shop, we've recently learned that Tangerine Confectionery who produce all the Lion's Sweets are stopping the manufacture of their iconic Sports Mixtures sweets. "WHAT!" We hear you shout........We're gutted about this too!

    Lions Sports Mixture Lion's Sports Mixture - Full of sports-related shaped sweeties.

    These sweets are one of our absolute best selling sweets - they contain the proper black liquorice flavoured sweets and come in a selection of sports-related shapes such as cricket bats, tennis rackets, rugby balls, footballs, bicycles and rugby boots. The flavours are the same as Midget Gems.

    Lion's Sports Mixtures will be replaced by Lion's Football Mixtures which we don't think will be the same and we've got our fingers crossed that they will continue to include the black liquorice flavoured sweets.

    We were so disappointed last year when Tangerine Confectionery stopped making Lion's Butterscotch Gums. We continue to be asked for these sweets on a daily basis and we hope that sometime down the line they might start production of these sweets again.

    We've stocked up on as many Lion's Sports Mixtures as possible at the moment. Our stock room is full of boxes of them, so no need to panic just yet. But we're not too sure how long our current stocks will last, so if you're a big fan of proper Sports Mixtures, then please do get your orders in as soon as possible. Sports Mixtures are a key product for us at Christmas and we normally sell tonnes and tonnes of the sweet!

    And for those of you who are real fans of all the Lion's gums, did you know that we stock a Lion's Sweet Hamper - which contains over 1.5kg of the iconic chewy, hard, gum sweets - including all seven remaining Lion's Sweets; Lion's Fruit Salads, Lion's Fruit Pastilles, Lion's Midget Gems, Lion's Wine Gums, Lion's Sports Mixtures,  Lion's Poor Bens & Lion's Liquorice Gums.

    So don't delay, stock up now on the Lion's Sports Mixtures and put a Lion's Sweet Hamper on your Christmas or Birthday present list!!

    Lion's Sweet Hamper Lion's Sweet Hamper
  • 12 Days of Christmas - SPECIAL OFFERS!!!

    Well Christmas is nearly here and we know you all love to grab a bargain, so we're launching a 12 Days of Christmas Promotion.

    From 1-12 December 2015 you will be able to take advantage of the discount codes, free products to make your Christmas pennies go that bit further.

    Check back each day to hear about the Special Promotion that is running that day, or visit our Facebook or Twitter pages to be the first to find out about the specific promotion.

    Our elves are mega busy packing up lots and lots of Christmas orders for Father Christmas. They're working SO hard but because of the sheer volume of orders and delivery by Royal Mail your order may take a day or two longer to arrive with you. But fear not, we will make sure all parcels will arrive with you in time for Christmas Day!

    DAY 1 -1st December 2015 - Get 15% OFF on all Online Orders at Bah Humbugs Sweet Shop. Just use Offer Code - BAHHUMBUGS on the checkout page. Offer valid for 24 hours.

    DAY 2 - 2nd December 2015 - FREE LUCKY DIP BAG WITH ORDERS OVER £10

    Day 3 - 3rd December 2015 - GET 10% OFF BEST OF BRITISH SWEET HAMPERS using offer code BOB10 on the checkout page.

    Day 4 - 4th December 2015 - 10% OFF SWEET DECADE BUCKETS, OFFERCODE BUCKET10

    Day 5 - 5th December 2015 - 10% OFF LIQUORICE SWEET HAMPER, CODE LIQ10

    Day 6 - 6th December 2015 - 15% OFF OUR GIANT SWEET HAMPER - CODE GSH15

    Day 7 - 7th December 2015 - FREE POSTAGE with orders over £20. Code FREEPOST

    Day 8 - 8th December 2015 - FREE BAG FO HARIBO WITH ORDERS OVER £15

    Day 9 - 9th December 2015 - 15% OFF LIQUORICE SWEETS WITH CODE LIQ15

    Day 10 - 10th December 2015 - FREE BAG OF HUMBUGS WITH ORDERS OVER £20

    Day 11 - 11th December 2015

    Day 12 - 12th December 2015

  • LION'S SWEET HAMPER - TOP SELLER!!

     

    Lions Sports Mixture Lion's Sports Mixture

    Lion's Midget Gems, Lion's Sports Mixtures, Lion's Poor Bens, Lion's Liquorice Gums, Lion's Fruit Pastilles, Lion's Wine Gums & Lion's Fruit Salads...... am I tempting you?

    We created the Lion's Sweet Hamper a good few years ago because we realised that there were so many loyal Lion's fans out there who absolutely loved their whole sweet range. We're the only sweet shop to make a lion's hamper..... so don't tell anyone or every other sweet shop will start to copy us!!

    This sweet hamper contains each one of the current Lion's Sweet range. Unfortunately this year they've stopped making the Lion's Butterscotch Gums..... we're not happy about this because they used to sell so well for us in our sweet shop. Nevertheless, this hamper contains 1.6kg of all the other Lion's sweets - the traditional, proper, hard, fruity gums which originated in Cleckheaton.

    And before you ask, the answer is YES. These are most definitely the PROPER ones. PROPER Lion's Midget Gems and PROPER Lion's Sports Mixtures....... by that I mean that the black sweets in these are liquorice flavoured, NOT blackcurrant. They're hard and chewy, just as they should be - we guarantee that you won't be sold an inferior product because we just don't stock them - Lion's all the way!

    So if you know someone who is a real fan of the Lion's sweets then our Lion's Sweet Hamper is an absolute MUST for them this Christmas. And if there is just one particular flavours of the Lion's Sweets which they particularly like, why not get in touch with us and we can customise a lion's hamper for you to include ONLY their favourite Lion's Sweet. Alternatively, we have a fabulous range of Giant Sweet Buckets which may be to their suiting - 1.5kg full of their favourite Lion's Sweet! Midget Gems, Wine Gums, Sports Mixtures.... you name it, we've got it!

    Lion's Sweet Hamper Lion's Sweet Hamper
  • GIANT SWEET HAMPER - PERFECT GIFT, 4kg of SWEETS

    Giant Sweet Hamper Giant Sweet Hamper - Over 4kg of Sweets!
    4kg Sweets 4kg of Super Scrumptious Sweets

    Christmas is just around the corner - have you started thinking about gifts yet?

    We've created lots of sweet hampers over the years and we've sold hundreds of these hampers for our corporate clients to send out to their customers or staff over the festive period. This year we've added the GIANT SWEET HAMPER to online sweet shop so that anyone can order one of these fantastic sweet hampers which contains over 4 kg of sweets!

    They are the ultimate in sweet hampers - full of all the delicious sweets you would expect to be our best sellers. Rhubarb & Custards, Lemon Sherbets, Bon Bons, Cinder Toffee, Fudge, Pear Drops, Mints, Midget Gems, Jelly Babies, Cola Bottles, Huge Selection of Retro Sweets, Flying Saucers, Toffees, Liquroices and loads more. Far to many to name to be precise!

    The Giant Sweet Hampers make wonderful gifts for families to share, for someone who deserves an extra special treat, for customers, clients or staff or just for someone who has a particularly sweet tooth.

    If you'd prefer to fill one of our Giant Sweet Hampers with your own choice of sweets then please do just send us  an email or call us at the sweet shop on 01765 688997 and we will gladly fill one direct to your specification,

    Here at Bah Humbugs Sweet Shop we specialise in a Sweet Gifts and have a wonderful selection of tasty treats - all of which are guaranteed to have the recipient grinning from ear to ear. For more inspiration, please check out our SWEET GIFT range, and in particular our Sweet Hampers, Sweet Jars and Range of Sweet Buckets.

    We hope you like what you see!

    Sweet Hamper Which is your favourite?

     

     

     

  • BAH HUMBUGS WINS FORWARD LADIES ONLINE/DIGITAL BUSINESSS AWARD 2015

    Online / Digital Award Winnner Yorkshire & North East 2015
    Online / Digital Award Winnner Yorkshire & North East 2015

     We were delighted to have been shortlisted in two categories for the Forward Ladies Business Awards 2015 - Yorkshire & North East Region. The regional final was held in Newcastle yesterday (29th September) and we were absolutely thrilled to have won The Digital/Online Award for Yorkshire & The North East. What an accolade!

    This means that we're now into the National Finals in Leeds on 20th November 2015, but before that we have to work a little harder to impress the judges at a Live Panel judging session on the 4th of November!!!

    Please see below for all the details of the awards from our PR friends at 2B Communications.

    Sweet success for confectionery entrepreneur as she storms through to national finals for Forward Ladies Women in Business Awards 2015

    A Yorkshire sweet entrepreneur who spearheads a retro sweet business has forged ahead to the national finals in the Forward Ladies Women in Business Awards 2015.

    Lucy Scott Paul, owner of Bah Humbugs won the Digital/Online Business of the Year Award 2015 for Yorkshire and the North East region at an awards ceremony yesterday (Tuesday 29 September) in Newcastle upon Tyne,in recognition of her 12 years of experience in confectionery and her success in the digital side of her business.

    The 38-year-old who hails from Masham, North Yorkshire where her business is based, started her business with a shop on the market square and has grown the online side of the company with a website which now takes orders from across the globe, and a strong social media presence. The Bah Humbugs website http://www.bahhumbugs.com/has received close to 10,000 new visitors since January this year spread across the UK, USA and Norway.

    She specialises in liquorice confectionery and stocks nostalgic sweet hampers whilst she also suppliessweets and hampers for corporate clients, events and weddings.Lucy has strong relationship with her customers and has harnessed her online community’s views to help shape her themed sweet products to mark occasions such as the Queen’s Jubilee. Her latest range of sweets features ‘Decade Buckets themed sweets. .

    Lucy now joins start-ups and multi-million pound businesses for the 2015 Forward Ladies Women in Business Awardsfinal which promises to be one of the most closely run finals in its six-year history.

    “I am absolutely delighted to have won Digital Business of the Year 2015 for Yorkshire and the North East region and cannot wait for the finals. The digital side of the business has enabled me to expand my client base across the UK and beyond including wining new corporate contracts.

    “Running your own business can be isolating at times and making decisions can be hard. I found it really motivating being at the awards ceremony and in the company of such successful women who all have inspiring stories to share.”

    The mother-of-two won regional Retail Business of the Year 2012 in the same competition and now joins 142 entrepreneurial female business leaders who are competing in rounds in Newcastle, Manchester, London and Nottingham across 11 categories to reach the finals to be held in Leeds, West Yorkshire in November.

    Fellow winners at the Newcastle awards ceremony included Claire Young of BBC’s The Apprentice fame in recognition of her School Speakers business.

    Forward Ladies Managing Director Griselda Togobo said the standard of entries this year was one of the highest ever.

    “The calibre of entries has been increasing year on year, but this year we have a number of outstanding entries, which have attracted women from all ages, all professions and all walks of life.  We are also delighted to hosting regional heats in Newcastle, Manchester, London and Nottingham for the first time, which means we can showcase some of the best talent from across the whole of England.

    “We also have categories to showcase the underrepresented women working in traditionally male dominated fields such as STEM, Digital and Online category, and have received some outstanding entries in this category.  The judges have seriously had their work cut out for them this year.”

    This year’s judging panel was made up of leading business personalities and entrepreneurs including Karen Boswell, the managing director of Hitachi Rail Europe and former managing director of East Coast Trains, Ajaz Ahmed, the founder of Freeserve and Debra White, the Regional Director of Small Businesses at HSBC.

    Bah Humbugs has over 3,500 twitter followers and over 4,000 facebook page. To follow on twitter visit https://twitter.com/bahhumbugs and to become a facebook fan visit http://www.facebook.com/bahhumbugs. To visit Bah Humbugs You Tube page visit http://www.youtube.com/user/englishsweetshop

    For more information visit http://www.bahhumbugs.com/

    ENDS

    For interviews/photos or more information please contact Audrey Barton at 2B Communications on 07769334877 or email Audrey@2bcommunications.co.uk

    Yorkshire & North East Winners All the Regional Winners for Yorkshire & The North East

     

     

     

  • SUMMER 2015 - BEST SELLING SWEETS

    Lions Sports Mixture Lion's Sports Mixture

    Well Summer is most definitely over, not that we had much sunshine that's for sure! This weekend sees the annual SHEEP FAIR here in Masham and this year it is the 30th Anniversary of this great weekend.

    If you don't know Masham, we have one of the largest and finest market squares in England, and it was always famous for sheep sales. Historically up to 70,000 sheep were sold each year. Today, the annual Sheep Fair raises lots of money for local charities, and the weekend is full of fun activities - not all sheep related!!

    Anyway, the Sheep Fair marks Autumn here in Masham, and i thought i'd take a moment to let you all know what the Top Ten Best Selling Sweets have been here in Bah Humbugs Sweet Shop over the Summer.

    1. Pontefract Cakes - what needs to be said about these Best Selling Sweets? They're a chewy liquorice coin, synonymous with the town of Pontefract which has a history steeped in liquorice.

    2. Lemon Sherbets - tangy, crunchy lemon sweets with a sour sherbet centre

    3. 1950s Decade Sweet Bucket - 1950s Sweets crammed into one of our new Sweet Buckets, fabulous selection, great for sharing.

    4. Lion's Sweet Hamper - A hamper full of the entire range of sweets made by Lion's including Midget Gems and Sports Mixtures.

    5. Lion's Midget Gems - the absolute 'proper' ones - with black liquorice ones.We only sell the authentic Lion's Sweets, the hard, chewy, fruity gums, so you won't find any blackcurrant flavoured black sweets here!

    6. Lion's Sports Mixtures - proper Sports Mixtures, with the black liquorice ones, just like the Midget Gems.

    7. Haribo Giant Strawbs - the best selling Haribo Sweet, Strawberries, Chewy Strawberries or whatever you like to call them! they are a scrumptious strawberry flavoured chew!

    8. Raspberry Blue Bon Bons - why are Raspberry flavoured

    9. Liquorice Torpedoes - Crunchy hard shells with a lovely liquorice centre

    10. Cherry Lips - love them or hate them, they're a floral, fragrant and hard chewy gum.

    Are any of these sweets one of your favourites? What sweet IS your favourite?

    cherry lips

  • SWEETS EVOKE SO MANY MEMORIES

    Liquorice Catherine WheelsToday in Bah Humbugs Sweet Shop we have had an order for a 1950s Sweet Hamper from a care home in the South of England. We are often contacted by people caring for the elderly to provide selections of sweets from a certain decade for use with their residents, or for people who are suffering from dementia.
    Sweets evoke so many memories - everyone can remember their first favourite sweet, and I love being able to grab that jar off the shelf and find that particular sweet for my customers. We're told that the sweets such as aniseed balls, cough candy, Floral Gums etc have such distinctive flavours that they can help people with memory problems to go back in time as they trigger many happy memories. Much the same as music does.

    Sugar is in the news a lot at the moment because of the adverse affects it has on the teeth of children who don't brush their teeth. It's absolutely right that sweets contain a lot of sugar and if sweets are eaten constantly without brushing your teeth that you're likely to get a large dental bill.

    But our sweets aren't so bad, eaten in moderation they will take you on a happy trip down memory lane, back to your school days; they can help to cheer up the glummest of moods and they also serve to give you a big energy boost.

    What i love best of all is to serve my elderly customers. I love to listen to all their stories of how they used to get their first sweets, what their favourites were, how much they cost, where they bought them from, what they tasted like - the amount of detail that they recall is quite phenominal, especially for those customers who are unfortunate enough to have dementia and memory problems.

    If you would like a selection of sweets for someone born during a specific decade/era, do let us know and we will happily put together a selection of sweets for you. Whether you're looking for sweets from the 1940s, sweets from the 1950s or 1960s sweets, we have a fabulous selection and can definitely put together a scrumptious assortment for you.

    So let's not be so quick to bin sugar, it does have its' uses!

    decade sweet buckets

  • WEDDING FAVOURS & SWEET CART

    We've had a busy Summer here in Bah Humbugs Sweet Shop with lots of visitors to Masham. The shop has had lots of new customers who haven't been before, as well as a lot of our regular customers.

    The Summer is also a really busy time for us making and delivering Wedding Favours to lots of lovely venues across The Yorkshire Dales. This has been the first Summer we've had our Victorian Sweet Cart, but it has been out to lots of stunning locations such as Swinton Park, Allerton Castle and Ripley Castle.

    If you're planning a wedding then please do give us a call or send us an email. Our sweets make wonderful inexpensive gifts to give to your guests to thank them for sharing your special day with you. From bags of Retro Sweets to boxes of chocolates, Jars of Sweets, bags of traditional boiled sweets and of course Childrens Party Bags - we can cater for them all! We also have lots of  And our Sweet Cart is a real show-stopper! Absolutely guaranteed to go down a storm with your guests (young AND old!). Here are some fabulous photos of the types of sweet favours we do, a long with some pictures of our fab sweet cart.

    Today we received a wonderful email from some newlyweds who got married at Swinton Park near to Masham. We thought we'd share it with you as we're so delighted to receive it!:-

    Dear Lucy, We just wanted to email you to express our gratitude for the fantastic work you did to make our wedding so memorable. the Sweet Cart was fantastic and was a great talking point. We could not have hoped for any better. As a supplier, you made our day. Your service was second to none and everyone commented on how amazing the sweet cart looked. You were brilliant from start to finish. We really can't praise you enough and will be eternally grateful to you, for helping to create a day we will treasure forever. Matthew & Victoria

    If you'd like any information about any of our Wedding Favours, Retro Sweets or Sweet Cart, please do get in touch! We will give your wedding that extra wow - factor!!

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    Childrens Party Bags Childrens Party Bags

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