I noticed an article in the Lancashire Evening Post last week – it caught my eye as it was about the Victory Factory on Chapel Street in Nelson, which was an imposing building for many years in the town until its demolition in 1988. It is believed that jelly babies were invented in Nelson. You can read about it in the article below.

You might also remember their famous lozenges which were were “devised by Thomas Fryer and Edward Smith MD in the mid-19th century and were initially made by hand to ensure that each sweet contained the correct amount of therapeutic ingredients; ether, liquorice and chloroform” according to Wikepdia.
I thought I would share the articles as well as some images of a drawing and painting in which the building features.
About the jelly babies.
About the lozenges.