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Cadbury World

06 Saturday Jun 2020

Posted by laurencereade in C

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Birmingham, Bourneville, Bournville, Cadbury Athletic, Cadbury World, Chocolate, England, Football, George Cadbury, groundhopping, Non League

With the football season over prematurely due to the Coronavirus Pandemic I’m in the unusual position of actually having this blog up to date! So to keep the content coming, and for something to do, I’ll do some old grounds and games where there’s a story to tell.

Saturday 19th February 2011 ko 15.00

Midland Combination Division Two

CADBURY ATHLETIC RESERVES 0

LEAMINGTON HIBERNIAN 1 (Jahmal Clarke 47p)

Att 52

Free Entry

Now if you were to ask a less experienced groundhopper where Cadbury Athletic play they’d probably tell you at the Triplex Sports & Social Club, Kings Norton in Birmingham. You’d be technically correct but it certainly isn’t the club’s spiritual home- but ticking off the Bournville Recreation does tend to polarise the brethren of the groundhoppers. Continue reading →

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Eastern Promise

10 Sunday May 2015

Posted by laurencereade in F

≈ 2 Comments

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Cadbury, Cadbury factory, Cadbury family, Cadbury's, Chocolate, Fry Club, J S Fry, Joseph Fry, Keynsham, Nailsea United, Scott Gregory, Somerdale, Somerset County League

Tuesday 5th May 2015 ko 18.30

Somerset County League- Premier Davison

FRY CLUB 1 (Gregory 78)

NAILSEA UNITED 1 (Fisher 25)

Entry & Programme £2

I’m not sure how often a multi-national company’s takeover of another sends groundhoppers scurrying to the works ground, but this one was definitely an example! When Kraft took over Cadbury in 2010, it was on the understanding that the Cadbury factory (and its sportsground) would be kept open, so when a year later the plant shut down a House of Commons investigation resulted. Continue reading →

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