SWEET lovers are in for a treat after a new shop opened on Preston Park Museum's Victorian Street.

Visitors can step back in time and experience the sights, smells and tastes of the past.

Run by the museum’s dedicated army of volunteers, young and old can enjoy picking their favourite sweets and watch as the shopkeeper weighs them out ‘the old fashioned way’.

The shop takes its name from J.F.Smith who was a confectioner in Stockton since the Victorian times.

The original sweet shop was set behind a glass counter and has been on the Victorian Street since the museum first re-opened in 2012. Due to its popularity it has now moved to a bigger location which will allow visitors to enjoy a more immersive experience.

The new setting also gives the opportunity to showcase objects from the museum’s collection including, toffee tins and chocolate boxes from the late nineteenth century, a traditional Victorian till and original Cadbury advertising showing chocolate bars that you could buy over hundred years ago.