You know that phrase ‘it looks chocolate boxy’ – people usually say it when they mean that something is too pretty or twee. Anyway, during the packing which is still going on here, prior to the ‘flitting’ on Friday, I came across this old chocolate box from around about the 1930s I think.

I found it in Great Aunt Jenny’s house after she died and we had to help to clear it out as she had no children. She had obviously thought it was too pretty to chuck out and used to keep some of her sewing threads in it.

It’s a 1lb box and it says on the side that it was made by J S Fry and Sons Ltd, Somerdale, Bristol, England.

I had no idea that they made chocolate in Bristol, I had always just assumed that all the chocolate in Britain was made in the York and Birmingham areas.

During the house packing I’ve realised that we have at least four generations of ‘stuff’ in our house, and that includes the books, we’ve lost count of the number of boxes of books which we’ve packed up, some of them were Granny Deighton’s school prizes but a lot more were Grandad Deighton’s, and even Great Grandad Besford’s books (which have his name inside in beautiful copperplate script) are being humphed to our new place. I just can’t get rid of them although I’ll never read them as the print is teeny.

Tomorrow I’ll be posting some photos of some of the period features of the house which has been our home for the past 26 years, just so that we can remind ourselves of what the place was like.