1824 - the first Cadbury factory opens
We chose 1824 as a significant date because it was the year the first Cadbury factory was opened.
John Cadbury was one of ten children of Richard Tapper Cadbury, a prominent Quaker who had moved to Birmingham, England from the West Country in 1794. In 1824, 22-year-old John Cadbury opened his first shop at 93 Bull Street, next to his father's drapery and silk business in the then fashionable part of Birmingham. Apart from selling tea and coffee, John Cadbury sold hops, mustard and a new side-line - cocoa and drinking chocolate, which he prepared using a mortar and pestle.
This was a significant event because chocolate can help to lower blood pressure, it may help to keep you smart, it can help to prevent strokes and heart attacks, it’s good for your bones and it boosts levels of cancer protection. Therefore, you would be healthier if you ate chocolate, it’s not too expensive and it’s delicious! As Cadbury would say, it’s better if you have “a glass and a half”.