From Cocoa Works to Cocoa West
Along the cycle track by the old Rowntree factory, remembering Rowntree Halt, and looking at ‘Cocoa West’, then and now.
More …Currently browsing pages tagged: factories
Cocoa Works progress
Checking on the progress of the Cocoa Works development, converting the former Rowntree factory building into residential accommodation.
More …Cocoa Works: Rowntree factory development
A quick visit to the Haxby Road side of the old Rowntree factory site, aka the Cocoa Works. A new bit of road in, and some demolition.
More …Cocoa Works: plans for Rowntree factory buildings
Notes and photos from an exhibition of plans for the Cocoa Works (Rowntree factory buildings). An added bit on the top, the road through, and what might happen to the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library
More …Rowntree’s and razor wire
The city’s chocolate-related heritage is promoted and sold, while rolls of razor wire adorn the ‘Conservation Area’ of the old Rowntree factory buildings.
More …Time to comment: Terry’s clock tower
Alison Sinclair: why we should object to the plans to convert Terry’s clock tower to residential accommodation.
More …Glassworks clock
Before leaving the subject of clocks, I wanted to include a photo sent to me by Ian Dixon.
It’s not the type I’ve included on earlier pages, which were all street clocks or factory clocks. This too is a factory clock, but it lived inside, and once controlled factory time at the glassworks in York.
Ian would be interested in hearing from anyone who remembers the clock in the factory.
More …