York's Chocolate Story
Interactive chocolate museum tracing a city's confectionery dynasties, with tastings and hands-on making.
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This guide to York's Chocolate Story in King's Square, York, leaves the sweets aside for a moment and follows the Rowntree Players, an amateur acting company born among the city's chocolate workers in nineteen twelve. It visits the theatre a Rowntree trust commissioned on Haxby Road and the opening night of November nineteen thirty-five. Along the way you meet Peter Rowntree and the architect Barry Parker, and the question of why a cocoa firm wanted a stage at all.
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