I have particular associations with Cadbury. My youth centre was in the heart of Bournville, and the sickly smell of chocolate would often waft through my office. My cottage in north Wales, which I have maintained as a youth project, was originally owned by Cadbury and purchased in 1961.
I wrote an oral history about a man who had started work at Cadbury, aged 14, in 1923. His mother had walked across Birmingham in 1881 to get a job as a Cadbury angel. Some of my sessional youth workers were lifetime employees at the factory. And it was, alongside the now demolished Rover factory at Longbridge, the Mecca of employment for generations of youth club members. It promised excellent terms and conditions.
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