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Somerdale was a chocolate factory located in Keynsham near Bristol in South-west England, closed by Kraft foods in 2011. It was the home of a Cadbury plc production facility, and was originally built by the Fry family when they expanded through consolidation of a number of existing facilities located in the centre of Bristol.
Cadbury Heath is a residential suburb in South Gloucestershire, England. It is in Oldland parish in the eastern fringe of the Bristol Built-up Area, 5 miles (8 km) east of Bristol city centre, and borders the neighbourhoods of Longwell Green, Oldland Common, Warmley and Kingswood. [1] Historically, Cadbury Heath was part of the Kingswood Forest.
Wyevale Garden Centres (formerly The Garden Centre Group) was a British chain of garden centres. It was the largest garden centre operator in the United Kingdom, with 154 locations following its acquisition of the Blooms of Bressingham chain in February 2007. [ 1 ]
Bournville (/ ˈ b ɔːr n v ɪ l /) is an affluent model village on the southwest side of Birmingham, England, founded by the Quaker Cadbury family for employees at its Cadbury's factory, [2] and designed to be a "garden" (or "model") village [3] where the sale of alcohol was forbidden. [4]
The J. S. Fry & Sons business merged with Cadbury in 1919, and moved their factory in the centre of Bristol to Keynsham in 1935. [57] As Quakers , Cadbury's built the factory on a 228-acre (0.92 km 2 ) greenfield site with social facilities, including playing fields and recreational sports grounds.
The BS postcode area, also known as the Bristol postcode area, [2] is a group of 37 postcode districts in South West England, within eight post towns. These cover the city of Bristol , north Somerset (including Weston-super-Mare , Axbridge , Banwell , Cheddar , Clevedon , Wedmore and Winscombe ) and south Gloucestershire .
In 1997 the Brunel Garden Centre that sits adjacent to the Gardiners warehouse opened. [2] [3] It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building. [4] In 2018 Gardiner Haskins announced its intention to vacate Gardiners warehouse and move to a new showroom opposite the building. [3]
Fry's Chocolate Cream is a chocolate bar developed by J. S. Fry & Sons and currently manufactured by Cadbury.Launched in 1866—nineteen years after Fry's created the first moulded, solid chocolate eating bar (in 1847) [1] [2] — Fry's Chocolate Cream is the first mass-produced combination candy bar and is the world's oldest chocolate bar brand.