Comments on: Cocoa Works progress

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 13 May 2024 23:29:08 +0000

I hope you can revisit this against n, it must have progressed quite a bit in the last few years! I doubt a Rowntree’s worker would be unable to afford one!

By: Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 16:15:48 +0000

You ask about the area at the end of the building that faces Haxby Road .
There was an entrance there and at the start of the corridor was the ” waste shop ” where we would all go to top up our sugar intake by means of all the Rowntree products on offer at greatly reduced prices . You then to my recall were close to the area where they actually mixed the beans and turned them into chocolate in great metal bowls taller than a man . I sadly remember someone getting killed in one of them .They were referred to as the conches
My father as a Rowntree brickie help build that block and fell off the scaffolding doing so !

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 10:23:45 +0000

I totally agree – I left York in 1987 & am shocked to see the demise of “Rowntrees” . My Aunty Dot & my Grandma worked at at the factory during WW2 it was an institution in York as was Terry’s and Cravens. It is just obscene how these wonderful factories are killed off.

By: Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 11:48:19 +0000

Utterly heart breaking to see what has happened here to a brilliant and caring local company before the damned Swiss got their hands on it. Sir Donald Baron will be turning in his grave along with the likes of all the Rowntree family who gave so much to their workers.