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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Cadbury unwrapped

Cadbury's: George Cadbury 1839 1922 at the age of 18
John Cadbury started the company in 1824 to selling cocoa and drinking chocolate, his sons George (pictured) and Richard took over in 1861 when they were in their 20s Photograph: World History Archive /Alamy
Cadbury's: cadbury's Cocoa Advert 1886
An 1886 advert for Cadbury's Cocoa features a family sitting around the breakfast table Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Cadbury's: Cadbury's workers 1909
George Cadbury founded began a new 'factory in a garden' in Bournville near Birmingham in 1879 and built a 'model village' for workers Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
Cadbury's: Street In Bournville
A street in Bournville pictured in July 1909 Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
Cadbury's: Advertisement for Cadbury's Dairy Milk
An advert for Cadbury's Dairy Milk. The company launched its first milk chocolate in 1897, and the Dairy Milk brand was introduced in 1905 Photograph: PR
Cadbury's: Thalia Barbarova advertising cadbury's
1928: Actress and flapper Thalia Barbarova features in an advert for Cadbury's chocolates Photograph: Sasha/Getty Images
Cadbury's: Woman checking cans of cocoa on conveyor at cadbury's 1928
A worker checks cans of cocoa in the Cadbury chocolate factory in 1928 Photograph: E. O. Hoppe/Time & Life Pictures/Getty
Cadbury's: Cadbury's Bournville factory 1954
1954: Workers wrapping chocolates at the Bournville factory Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images
Cadbury's: margaret thatcher campaigning at cadbury factory 1979
Prime-minister-to-be Margaret Thatcher watches production during a 1979 election campaign visit to Bournville Photograph: Owen Franken/Corbis
Cadbury's: Cadbury's Milk Tray
Cadbury's Milk Tray was launched in 1915. Adverts which ran from the 1960s to 2000 featured an 007-style character performing daring deeds to deliver a box to a beautiful woman - 'All because the lady loves Milk Tray' Photograph: PA
Cadbury's: Cadburys Dairy Milk TV advert featuring a gorilla 2007
Another popular Cadbury advert featured a gorilla playing the drums to Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight Photograph: Rex Features/Rex
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