Gordon &Durward

Gordon and Durward have been making sweets in Crieff since 1925 — the name joins Mr Durward and his wife, formerly Miss Gordon — and the shop has passed down a short chain of families since: to 'Sweetie Geordie' Anderson in 1947, to his son John, and since the late 1990s to Graham and Caroline Donaldson, who had run the local garage before they took on the fudge. A century on, the confectionery is still made the traditional way on the premises — boiled sweets, tablet, and the fudge that now turns up in good food shops the length of Scotland and into England. It is a genuine survivor: an independent sweet-maker of the kind most towns lost decades ago, kept going in one Perthshire high street because each set of owners was unwilling to let it close. Buy the fudge; it is the reason the place has outlived nearly every rival.