Some of the many issues that the Please get in touch with us if you would like to Rowntrees have been involved in... get involved. If you are looking for information about Rowntree history, or if you would like Adult Schools * Temperance Movement * to volunteer, make a financial contribution, or Birth of Sociology * Enlightened donation of photographs or memorabilia to our Business Practice * Opposition to Boer resource centre, we would love to hear from you. War * Recording Britain War-Time Project * Oxfam * Architectural Design * Liberal Politics * Alleviating Poverty * Land Reform * Quakerism * Leisure Time Pursuits (Views on Gambling, Where to find out more... Drinking, Broadcasting, Cinema) * The Welfare State * National Insurance * Visit our website at: Pensions Reform * Household Budgets * www.rowntreesociety.org.uk Statistics * Unemployment * The Poverty Line * Life-Long Learning Email us at: * Outdoor Recreational Spaces * Model [email protected] Village * Young People * Women’s Voices * Conscientious Objection * Or write to: The Rowntree Society Clements Hall Nunthorpe Road YO23 1BW And some of the sweets the Rowntree An Independent Charity company created... Exploring the Lives and Legacy Fruit Pastilles * Fruit Gums * of the Rowntree Family *Elect Cocoa * Table Jellies * * Motoring Chocolate * Black Magic * * Dairy Box * Chocolate (Kit-Kat) * * Mints * After Eight * Matchmaker * Charity Number 1105936 Company Number 05217103 * For 150 years Rowntree has been a Some key dates in Rowntree York’s history: household name in York. Rowntree makes York a unique city through its contribution 1822 Joseph Rowntree Senior sets up a grocery to the confectionery industry; its progressive business in 28 Pavement business management processes; 1862 Henry Isaac Rowntree acquires a cocoa business its philanthropic activity that is informed from the Tuke family; on his death in 1883, his by its Quaker roots; its enlightened political Some of the many places that make York’s brother Joseph Rowntree Junior takes over the engagement and contribution to social reform; Rowntree History so distinctive... business and ensures its fortunes with the development of Elect Cocoa in 1887 and its pioneering development of a model village and garden factories. Most important Tanners’s Moat (Aviva headquarters) * 1901 Publication of Poverty: a Study of Town Life, by of all, York provides a continuity with its The Retreat * * Seebohm Rowntree 28 Pavement (Pizza Hut, Pavement) * Rowntree past and there are many people Joseph Rowntree School * Lady Peckitt’s 1902 New Earswick model factory village still with a Rowntree story to share. Yard * St Paul’s Nursery * Penn House * Haxby Road * Joseph Rowntree Theatre 1904 Memorandum setting up three Trusts to cover * The Rowntree Society was established in * The Mount School * Blossom Street * education and the Society of Friends, social Yearsley Swimming Baths * Central 2004 to bring the Rowntree story into focus, investigation, political reform and influencing Library * Seebohm Rowntree Building and to encourage people across the city to public opinion, and alleviating the evils arising University of York * Black Horse from poverty and poor housing. connect with their Rowntree heritage and Passage * Friends Meeting House * common roots. * Rowntree Park * 1906 The Cocoa Works factory moves from Tanner’s NestlÉ Factory * Boer War Memorial Moat to Haxby Road * Fossgate * Hungate * The Railway * Since 2004 we have created an informative Company * Allotment Gardens * 1909 Yearsley swimming baths are presented to the website containing everything about Rowntree Heslington Hall University of York * city of York by the company history; we have commissioned a biography Rowntree Wharf * Hartrigg Oaks * of Joseph Rowntree by Chris Titley; we have The Folk Hall New Earswick * 1921 Rowntree Park is presented by the company to Clifton Lodge * The Homestead Park * written a book on The Rowntree Legacy: the people of York Capitalism, Compassion, Change; and a book of 1988 Nestlé SA buys Rowntree plc Five Rowntree Walks in York: From Chocolate Comes Change. We have also run a major 2004 Rowntree Society established as an independent Oral History project to create the largest ever charity, to explore the lives and legacy of the publicly available Rowntree memories bank. Rowntree family