A recent article which described some buildings in a part of Hove showed a long red-brick building in Stoneham Road (Seven Days, February 8).

This was one of the main outlets of Maynards, the sweet manufacturer.

From this building they supplied a large number of their own sweet shops. The top floor was devoted to sugar boiling and making the lettered sticks of rock for Brighton as well as other seaside towns.

Among the sweets made were clove balls, mint humbugs, barley sugar twists, cough candy, aniseed balls, brandy balls and lime juice pods.

The first floor was kept for storage of other firms’ sweets, either in tins, boxes or jars. Some of them were well known names, such as Sharp’s toffees, Cadbury, Rowntree’s pastels, Bassett’s liquorice allsorts, Fry’s Turkish delight and a name not heard often now: Suchard. As an order clerk, I had to assemble the requirements of various shops.

I can remember shops in York Place, London Road, North Street, Western Road and Hove. We also delivered to Worthing, Shoreham and Southampton.

I hope this fills in the history of this building and that other readers found it useful.

Mrs Margaret Croucher, Gordon Road, Brighton