Many Merseyside made "tuck-shop favourite" sweets have been loved by millions since childhood.
Taveners - and its forerunners - have a long history in Liverpool, from employing thousands of workers across the generations to producing many of the nation’s tuck-shop favourites, such as wine gums and jelly babies. First called Tavener-Rutledge, later shortened to Taveners, its origins date back to Victorian Liverpool, when William Henry Tavener branched out from pickles and sauces into producing boiled sweets at his shop in Scotland Road in 1889.
But it was his son Herbert who masterminded the transformation to a confectionery empire after WW1, persuading his father to sell him the sweet making and wholesaling side. By then, the company was in a four-storey factory in Kew Street in Vauxhall.
