Comments on: From Cocoa Works to Cocoa West http://yorkstories.co.uk/cocoa-works-to-cocoa-west-rowntree-factory-site/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Leaping lamb http://yorkstories.co.uk/cocoa-works-to-cocoa-west-rowntree-factory-site/#comment-715593 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:04:50 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=16602#comment-715593 Oh those days of yore,when the cyclists FLOODED the roads at leaving times,My wife( RIP) , the cream chocolate packing,,from Haxby Rd ,merging at Clarence St with her twin sister(RIP) from the cocoa elect block.A race to get home ,for first bathing dibs,to remove the cocoa/ chocolate smell before the dance ,back at R’trees.

]]> By: Janis Smith http://yorkstories.co.uk/cocoa-works-to-cocoa-west-rowntree-factory-site/#comment-715361 Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:48:07 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=16602#comment-715361 I agree with Deborah Roberts about all the lost jobs everyone knew someone who worked at Rowntree. Hate to be a pessimist but now all I can see is all the extra traffic on Haxby Road and Wigginton Road. At least in it’s hey day it was all bikes out of the factory!

]]> By: Deborah Roberts http://yorkstories.co.uk/cocoa-works-to-cocoa-west-rowntree-factory-site/#comment-704316 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 11:54:53 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=16602#comment-704316 This is a case of asset stripping of the very worse kind. Damn more houses what about the jobs of every kind that were on the site. Apprentices in every trade, office and factory jobs in the thousands and all provided by and in the Quaker tradition of caring for others.
I loath Nestle and all its done .

]]> By: Ben http://yorkstories.co.uk/cocoa-works-to-cocoa-west-rowntree-factory-site/#comment-701874 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:36:58 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=16602#comment-701874 Thank-you for this post. It’s fascinating to see your photos from 2009, and Google Street View also has some poignant views of the site in full operation from Sept 2008.

As a local resident, I feel cautiously optimistic about the new development as we’re in desperate need of more affordable family homes with outdoor space in central York (although they do look rather crammed-together in that prospective image).

]]> By: Leaping Lamb http://yorkstories.co.uk/cocoa-works-to-cocoa-west-rowntree-factory-site/#comment-701643 Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:15:08 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=16602#comment-701643 Your treatise,on the Rowntree Halt location,brings back such good memory
of my younger apprentice days,dancing at the R’tree lecture hall ,and taking my girl partner of the day,back home via Hambleton terrace,thro’ the broken fences,up and over the Wigginton bridges to Lucas Avenue.” Gee it was great,after being out late,walking my baby back home”.Thanks for the memory,from over 70 years ago!

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