About Barratt Black Jack Stick Pack
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The story of Barratt Black Jack Stick Pack
The one in the paper bag
You know exactly where you were the last time you had one of these. Probably outside a corner shop, a paper bag of mixed sweets in one hand, picking out the Black Jacks first because you were not sharing those. Somebody always claimed they did not like them. Somebody was lying. Barratt's Black Jack first turned up in 1920, and it still turns grown adults back into ten-year-olds rummaging for the last one.
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One sugar boiler in Hoxton
It started small. In 1848 George Osborne Barratt, aged 21, set up with a single sugar boiler at 32 Shepherdess Walk, Hoxton, in London. Several of his siblings and children joined in, which is one way to keep the family busy, and it worked. By 1906 Barratt had become the largest confectionery manufacturer in the world. Not the largest in Hoxton. The world. It became a limited company in 1909. Sir Albert Barratt, George's son, died in 1941 and is buried in the family grave at Highgate Cemetery.
Lost, found and back again
Then came the shuffling. Bassett's bought Barratt & Co. Ltd. in 1966, and Cadbury Schweppes took over Bassett's in 1989. The old Barratt factory at Wood Green closed in 1980 after a long decline, and the site is now a complex called The Chocolate Factory, which is a fairly gracious way to remember a sweet works. Since 2008 Barratt has sat with Tangerine Confectionery, now Valeo Confectionery, and in 2018 the name came back into active use. Black Jack is made under that brand in the UK and Spain.
The rest of the gang
Black Jack keeps good company. The revived Barratt range includes DipDab, Refreshers, Nougat, Sherbet Fountain, Fruit Salad and Wham, which reads less like a product list and more like the top shelf of every sweet shop you were ever sent to with change in your pocket. Read the names out in any room of grown Brits and watch the opinions start. Black Jack usually starts them.