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A history of Gourlay's Sweet Shop in Launceston | January 2025 | The Examiner
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1/9/2025
Owner Mike Wood tells the story of Gourlay's, a Launceston sweet shop dating back to 1896. Video by Phillip Biggs
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I'm Michael Wood, my wife Anita and I own Goulet Sweets.
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Goulet Sweets was started in 1896 by a Scottish gentleman, William Johnson Goulet, who immigrated
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to Australia from Scotland, and that's where most of our recipes come from for our boiled
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sweets.
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He ended up in Launceston, first opened his shop in number 80 Elizabeth Street.
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In underneath the shop floor is actually where he manufactured his sweets, and at the time
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in Launceston there was about eight little confectioners just all making their sweets.
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You didn't have the big factories like Cadbury's and all those, and over a period of time a
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lot of those closed down, and eventually we'll move the factory and the shop, relocated
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in Brisbane Street opposite the Majestic Theatre where people could buy their sweets from the
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shop and then go back to the theatre.
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It came down to his grandsons, and then in 1970 there wasn't anyone who wished to keep
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the business going, and so they sold it to mum and dad.
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I came into the business in 1989, started to make the sweets for dad.
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The factory was eventually relocated to Penny Royal Complex where we set up demonstrations,
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and now the factory's been relocated in the Door of Hope Complex, the old Coates Payton,
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and this is where we manufacture our sweets for our shop which is still in the Quadrant
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