Charlie and the Disappearing Chocolate Factory Traditional Cache
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Charlie and the Disappearing Chocolate Factory
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Very close to this site used to be an old factory. The company that owned this factory are famous for making chocolate..... (although chocolate was never made at this factory).
As with everywhere else in Aylesbury most of the industry is moving out being bulldozed and replaced by houses!
One of my Favourite authors lived within the Bucks area and I am basing a series of Caches around his books. In order to make his books more interesting to my Eldest daughter I tell her certain buildings or landmarks in the local area are inspiration for his books. (There is some truth in this, just not for this cache).
If you Take anything please replace it with something of equal or greater value.
Also there may be some items in there that need to stay in there!! These will be marked clearly.
You are looking for a small multiclip tupperware box.........
Traditionally Aylesbury was a commercial centre with a market dating back to the Saxon period. This is because it was established on the main Akeman Street which became an established trade route linking London to the southwest.
In 1180 a gaol was established in the town (it is still there though has moved locations two or three times) which only really happened in main towns across the country.
By 1477 flour was being ground in the town for surrounding parishes. By the modern period this had grown into a huge established industry: the last mill in Aylesbury was closed in the 1990s (Hills & Partridge on the canal behind Tesco).
By 1560 the manufacture of needles had become a large industry in Long Crendon, a village close to Aylesbury, which was an important production centre.
In 1672 poor children in Buckinghamshire were taught to make lace as a way to make a living. Bucks lace as it became known quickly became very sought after and production boomed as the lace was mainly made by poor women and children. The lace-making industry had died out by Victorian times, however, as new machine-made lace became preferable.
In 1764 Euclid Neale opened his clock making workshop in Aylesbury. In the 18th century he was one of the best clock makers in the country.
In 1814 the Aylesbury arm of the Grand Union Canal from Marsworth was opened bringing major industry to the town for the first time. At the same time the Wendover arm was built leading to nearby Wendover.
By the late 19th century the printers and bookbinders, Hazell, Watson and Viney and the Nestlé dairy were the two main employers in the town, employing more than half the total population.
Today the town is still a major commercial centre and the market still meets on the cobbles of the old Market Square four days a week. Nestle and Hazell, Watson and Viney have both gone, as has the US Automotive parts producer TRW, who left the town in 2006. However, three major industrial centres make sure the town has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.
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VPG, nobhg xarr urvtug.
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