I’ve seen a lot more sweetshops around recently. Specifically, these Victorian-themed tuck shops and sweet connoisseurs, plucked from two hundred years ago and plopped in the middle of a high street that doesn’t quite know how to welcome its new tenant. One of the sweetshops near me plasters ‘Toys, Trains, Treats’ on dated storefront panelling; it’s the shop you thought your grandparents went to when they were young, except the steam trains on sale are battery powered. During the first year o...
