Loved Wonka? Stay in the sweet shop author Roald Dahl adored – it’s now a holiday rental available as an Airbnb

In Boy, Dahl described how he and his friends would stop outside the shop window on the way to and from school each day to gaze at the jars of bulls eyes, humbugs, strawberry bonbons and acid, pear and lemon drops. “Sweets were our life blood,” he wrote, recording his favourites as sherbet suckers and … Read more