Chocolate Story - Cadbury World. From bean to Liverpool, & up the Shropshire Canal to Bournville.

Chocolate Story - Cadbury World. From bean to Liverpool, & up the Shropshire Canal to Bournville.
Is Cadbury World worth it? We felt the experience left so many gaps, that we have added a few things to our chocolate story.

Much of the 65,000 tonnes of cocoa beans required for chocolate manufacture arrive via Liverpool docks each year, due to its proximity to factories in Yorkshire and north Wales.

The Shropshire Union Canal, nicknamed the "Shroppie", was an important conduit for many industries and is an amazing sixty-mile, four-day cruise to add onto any cruise ending at Liverpool. The tub boat canal runs from the River Mersey at Ellesmere Port down through some of England's most beautiful and underpopulated areas to the edge of urban Wolverhampton where the main Cadbury factory is.

The canal, completed in 1792, was built to move coal, ore and limestone to the industrial region of east Shropshire, England.  But its strategic position, along with the Birmingham West Suburban Railway which began to open in 1876 and ran parallel, encouraged George and Richard Cadbury to move their initial chocolate interest from Birmingham city centre to the Bournbrook Estate, four miles from the city.

Ellesmere Port near Liverpool dock was once the UK's largest inland waterway dock complex, and a major transhipment point for goods traveling anywhere on the canal network, including cocoa beans.

CADBURY CHOCOLATE STORY - in a cocoa pod

In 1824 John Cadbury opened a grocery shop in Bull Street, Birmingham, where he sold tea, coffee, cocoa, and drinking chocolate - which he prepared himself using a mortar and pestle. We saw that technique explained in a period store in our tour of Boston in the USA. Cadbury's chocolate became very popular. He bought a nearby warehouse in 1831, and with his sons George and Richard Cadbury he expanded, moving to a larger factory in Bridge Street in 1847.

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▬ Contents ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 - Cocoa arrives Liverpool Docks
0:30 - moves on Shropshire Union Canal
1:15 - Cadbury World
1:25 - John Cadbury's Tea Shop
1:55 - Rain Forest
2:39 - Storytelling holograms
3:20 - Theatre one
3:56 - Theatre two
4:47 - more education
5:00 - Live demonstration
5:10 - Choc making in Boston USA
6:00 - Chocolate making @caburychocolateworld
6:51 - Chocolate in Bruges
7:45 - Cadbury World Ride
8:42 - Chocolate Doodling
9:12 - Kids have a go
10:11 - Chocolate in the Caribbean
10:47 - Cadbury Fun Park
11:20 - 4D Theatre

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