The biggest block of chocolate in the world, made to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the first bar of Dairy Milk. John East and Alan Valender are depicted.

Hungarian-born Anika Salga trying hot chocolate and mince pies. The Conductive Education Centre in Northfield is mentioned.

One of the biggest installations of microprocessor-controlled weighers was in operation on the chocolate buttons production line, designed and made by Driver Southall, of Tame Bridge, Walsall.

A1947 open-topped 4 mpg Dennis Fire Engine, believed to be the only one of its kind in the country, had been lent permanently to the fire station by a Worcester scrap dealer, after it had been the fire engine for the Cadbury’s confectionary firm. The phot

Hygiene rules meant that you could no longer have a tour of the factory, but a new visitor centre was developed instead. The photograph shows Chris Benfield and two other female employees from the demonstration production line.

West Midlands Arts commissioned seven artists to produce work relating to West Midlands industries, including firms such as Cadbury’s in Birmingham, Brinton’s carpets in Kidderminster and the Ind Coope Brewery in Burton-on-Trent. The West Midlands CBI cha

Pupils, including some from Turves Green Girls School, Northfield, were invited to the factory to hand-wrap Creme Eggs as part of an Eggsploring Engineering roadshow. The Women’s Engineering Society and the Verena Holmes Lecture Tour are mentioned. Shown

A 3ft high chocolate Easter egg that was to be raffled off in aid of the outpatient’ department at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Shown with the egg are Alison Haynes, Derek Harvey and George Hands.

Crunchie the horse was tugging a boat called Bournville from Liverpool to London, with children’s television presenter Nick Sanders on board, to recreate the tub boat journeys that supplied cocoa beans to the factory and delivered chocolate bars to London

Nine winners of competitions run by Cadburys were invited to the opening of a new high-speed packaging plant, designed to wrap Dairy Milk, Fruit & Nut, Bournville and Whole Nut. James Allen is quoted. The photograph shows Cornell Griffiths (left) and Ian