LIZZIE Goodey’s sweet ‘shop’, which she ran from her home in Littlemore, Oxford, kept many children happy.

Readers recalled in letters to us how they bought gobstoppers, chews, sherbert dabs, blackjacks, spangles, sherbert and other delights on their way home from school.

We received plenty of memories, but no picture of her – until now.

Mrs Goodey’s grand-daughter, Veronica Taylor, has sent in this photograph of her taken at Brighton in the 1950s.

Mrs Taylor, who lives in the United States, writes: “We used to go to the seaside on the coach.”

Bob Vincent, of Iffley Road, Oxford, set us on Mrs Goodey’s trail when he recalled how he and a friend would call to buy sweets at her home in College Lane in the mid-1950s (Memory Lane, June 1).

Other readers recalled seeing the sweets laid out on a table and staircase.

Tony Harbert, of Rivermead Road, Rose Hill, remembered one particular speciality – liquorice wood.

He wrote: “It was believed to be part of the liquorice plant and you chewed it until it became a tasteless fibre, then threw it away. It tasted of liquorice, but you never ate it.“ According to Colin James, of Pipkin Way, Oxford, the family had two other shops, one near Littlemore railway station and the other on the corner of Long Lane, run by Mrs Goodey’s daughter Zena.

Terence Feary, of Littlemore, recalled how Tom Hazel, woodwork master at Northfield School, would often send him to Zena’s wooden hut to buy an Oxo and five Woodbines.

He wrote: “Zena was a very attractive, blonde-haired lady, as I am sure every boy who used her shop will remember.“ It appears she wasn’t the only shop assistant to attract the opposite sex.

Grand-daughter Mrs Taylor tells me that the shop was at one time owned by the Jewell family, who had “three lovely looking, blue-eyed, blond-haired boys“.

She recalls: “The two eldest boys worked in that sweet shop. When we walked down the river to Sandford, we’d go to buy sweets. That was our excuse, anyway!”

Any more memories of Lizzie and Zena Goodey to share with readers?