Grwpiau

I'm aged 76 and I worked in the office of Needler's of Hull from 1961 until 1963 approx.



I just wondered if anybody had archives relating to the business that they could share with me.I have some photos but they were just ones which I came across on the internet.



I enjoyed the few years which I spent there working in the office as the people were very friendly and helpful.



Thanks,



Liamish

Worked at Nestle' Hayes Middx would like to share memories

Waiting in anticipation to see if aerofilms photographed the Cadbury factory at Marlowe just outside Leominster. Associated with the production of Chocolate crumb since 1936 I used to drive past it everyday.

If you care to google: Chocs Away – Norwich’s History of Chocolate Making, a fascinating history and its sad demise is to be read.



The smell from the chocolate factory in the early '80s, did little to stimulate an appetite for chocolate. I never did understand why the smell never matched the taste.

Marked is the Queens Road factory of Mackintosh's. Opened in 1899 and closed in 1986.

Mackintosh's began in this shop in King Cross Street, Halifax in 1890. This photo was taken in the late 1970s and the building is now demolished.

My Dad working at Mackintosh's Queens Road factory in Halifax.



If you're interested in Mackintosh's, The Percy Shaw, the Wetherspoon's pub in the Broad Street Plaza, central Halifax has some interesting photos and information.

Marked are the HQ of John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd, manufacturers of delicious toffee and the best-selling Quality Street assortment. The building is still there (2013) and is operated by Nestlé.

This factory was the HQ of Riley Brothers, Toffee Makers, who developed the delicious Riley's Toffee Rolls. The building is still there (2013) but now belongs to McVitie's who make cakes there.

The Meltis chocolate factory is just below the centre of the photo. My mum worked there for a while and one day one of her work colleagues dropped her false teeth in the chocolate mixing bowl. She scooped them out, popped them back in her mouth and carried on working! Perhaps that's why I preferred Meltis New Berry Fruits.

Fry's Cocoa factory, the first company in Britain to create a chocolate bar as we know them today,a huge sucess Fry's Chocolate Cream launched in 1866 is still on the shelves!

One of several images of the factory, once famous for products including the Terry's Chocolate Orange. It opened in 1926 (other images on this site, from that year, show it under construction). It closed in 2005.

I don't remember Pascalls, before my time.

Later made the Elizabeth Shaw brand of chocolates.



http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/elizshaw.php

another Cadbury factory

I love how they told every single child (and adult) in the surrounding areas what exactly they are producing - the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory of the 1920s ...

more Terrys of York

The only thing I remember Paynes for was Poppets. They used to sell them in vending machines in the London Underground.

As a university student in Norwich in 1965, I spent the summer vacation working at Caley's, which following its sale by Unilever in 1932, was owned and known as Mackintosh's. Working on the night shift there for several weeks, my sole and soul-destroying job was to unload the trays of Caramac coming off the production line into larger trays. You could eat as much as you wanted which meant I never ate another bar of Caramac for over 30 years. (In 1969, it merged with Rowntree's to form Rowntree Mackintosh, which then was taken over by Nestlé in 1988. And the factory closed in 1994)

Terry's

Located just outside Bristol near to Keynsham.



There was always a sweet aroma even three or four miles away. Recently closed (2011) and production transferred to Poland

Luton Cocoa and Chocolate Works

Bournville