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Around this time the Norwich factory was also responsible for producing over 40 million chocolate eggs on the run up to Easter! Our industry is facing testing times, which is why I’m asking for your support. “But the real breakthrough came was in 1932 when it was sold to John Mackintosh & Sons Limited.”It was here, under the Mackintosh name, that the first packet of Rolo was manufactured in Norwich five years later.But the factory had a set back when it was hit in an incendiary raid during the Second World War.Years of reconstruction took place and the building eventually was completed in 1952 and with the reopening came a host of new products including, Week-End and Munchies which were introduced in 1957, Caramac in 1959 and Good News Assortment began production in Norwich from 1960 onwards.“But in 1969 the world changed again,” said Mr Spokes, as the business was bought by Rowntree.“That’s the name a lot of people around the city will know,”The company employed roughly 1,000 people and at Easter time the factory would manufacture over 40,000,000 chocolate eggs.But not even two decades later, the factory was taken over by Nestle, and eight years later it closed.Employees protested the closure, sharing slogans such as “Save our factory; don’t make it the “last Rolo” at Norwich!” However nothing could be done and the building was demolished in 2004.

… Rowntree’s merged with Mackintosh’s, a company originating in Halifax, Yorkshire, in 1969 to become Rowntree Mackintosh. John Mackintosh and Co. brought with them Rolo, Munchies, Caramac and Quality Street.

Norwich Cathedral’s towering spire is a landmark which has stood proudly over the city for centuries. Is what the Rowntree Society does. My floor looks great! This newspaper has been a central part of community life for many years, through good times and bad, serving as your advocate and trusted source of local information. In 2002, before it was knocked down to build Chapelfield Mall Packing "Loot" Sweet, memories afternnon for former Caley/Nestle chocolate factory workers.Archant Norfolk Photographic © 2009To send a link to this page you must be logged in.And the workplace of many residents of the city throughout its timeBut the history of chocolate in Norwich has recently been re-examined, at a talk by Rod Spokes for the Norwich Society.Mr Spokes, a city guide and member of the society, said it all started when chemist Albert Jarman Caley started producing soda water in his shop, in London Street, in 1863.A few years later, following the success of his work with soft drinks, Mr Caley, with the help of his son Edward, opened a mineral water factory in Chapel Field East known as Fleur-de Lys works, to help cope with demand for the product.But soft drinks were only sold seasonally, so in an effort to save the jobs of his employees during the winter months, the factory began manufacturing drinking cocoa in 1883 which in 1886 turned to chocolate slabs.By 1904 the factory was employing 700 people and their chocolates were shipped all over the world, with Caley’s Marching Chocolate even being sent to British troops during the Second World War.“But the Swiss really developed the chocolate bar,” Mr Spokes, from Thorpe, said.“They added milk and had better equipment.”Mr Spokes said after Mr Caley’s death, the business went to his sons who not long after sold it to the East African Trading Company.“About which very little is known,” Mr Spokes said.

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