'Destination Bristol' advertising board game, Fry's Chocolate

Board game, printed card, showing the journey made by cocoa from West Africa to Fry's Somerdale chocolate factory. The players must avoid numerous hazards along the way, using arrow-shaped pieces printed with ships and aircraft, and a teetotum made from printed card.

Given by Ruth Nyman

Given by Ruth Nyman, who later recalled 'I believe I acquired the Destination Bristol game by completing a form on a Fry's Chocolate Cream wrapper. It was probably in the mid-1950s, when I was about nine or ten years old, and would have been part of a process of beginning to connect with the world beyond the confines of my refugee parents' home. I clearly remember being very disappointed in the game because it needed several players and I only had one real friend, it was very 'male' and was the first time I was aware of my lack of interest in winning anything. I kept it because of the pleasing design and because it was something that I had acquired myself.

Almost everything we ate was homemade and we never had any sweets other than the occasional small bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk, with its sections rationed out carefully. I must have bought the chocolate bar as a minor act of rebellion with some of the very minimal pocket money I received and suspect that the disappointment was therefore even greater.'

B.55:1 to 6-2017