<P> Quality Street is a once popular selection of individual tinned or boxed toffees, chocolates and sweets, produced by Nestlé . Quality Street was first made in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England in 1936 . It was named after a play by J.M. Barrie . </P> <P> In 1890 John Mackintosh and his wife opened a shop in Halifax, where they created a new kind of sweet by mixing hard toffee with runny caramel . These toffees were made from inexpensive local ingredients such as milk, sugar beets and eggs . They were so successful that in 1898 they expanded the operation to build the world's first toffee factory . It burned down in 1909 so John bought an old carpet factory and converted it into a new facility . When John Mackintosh died his son Harold inherited the business and in 1936 he invented Quality Street . The name was inspired by a play of the same name by J.M. Barrie . </P> <P> In the early 1930s only the wealthy could afford boxed chocolates made from exotic ingredients from around the world with elaborate packaging that often cost as much as the chocolates themselves . Harold Mackintosh set out to produce boxes of chocolates that could be sold at a reasonable price and would, therefore, be available to working families . His idea was to cover the different toffees with chocolate and present them in low - cost yet attractive boxes . </P>

Who created the first quality street sweet and where was the shop