When it comes to chocolate, there aren’t too many UK cities which have more history intertwined with the production of chocolate than Bristol - and it must be a reason so many of the older generation remember so fondly the old chocolate wrappers from the likes of Frys and Cadbury’s.
Confectionery shops in Bristol were like Egyptian bazaars to youngsters with all kinds of chocolates on offer behind the counter, all within their well-known, often colour wrapping.
You’d have the bright orange crunchie bars, the purple dairy milk chocolate and who could leave out the Fry’s Five Boys milk chocolate. How could one small human possibly decide which one to go for?!
And the beauty of it all was that much of the chocolate on show was made in the Bristol region at huge factories like Fry’s, later Cadbury’s, at Somerdale in Keynsham. The workforce at its height numbered 5,000 - and the site had its own power station and railway.
Today, its a modern housing and retirement home site with huge sports fields. But memories of the old times can still live on through the chocolates the older generation enjoyed.
Here is a selection of some of the chocolates they might remember while growing up in Bristol:
9. Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut Milk Chocolate
A chocolate bar which has continued to by popular, chocolate slab can be seen today. It was introduced way back in 1926. In the 1970s it was advertised on television with the lyrics ‘Everyone’s a fruit and nutcase’ to a classical piece from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. | Alex Ross
10. Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate
Introduced in 1905, the still best-selling Cadbury’s chocolate was produced at Somerdale in Keynsham - and it’d have been seen everywhere a generation, or two ago, like it is today. | Alex Ross
11. Fry’s Double Milk Sandwich
One of Fry’s better known chocolates produced at Keynsham was the Double Milk Sandwich, here priced at six pence. | Alex Ross
12. Fry’s Five Boys Milk Chocolate
Fry’s Five Boys chocolate was once the most famous confectionery bar in the world - and it was made right here in Bristol, and later Keynsham. It was first sold in 1902, before being withdrawn in 1976. | Alex Ross