I want to go to a factory, Mummy.....

[chocolatequeen]

Just that basically - every single CBeebies program seems to feature a factory of some description (esp nurse gladys on Come Outside), so now DS wants to go to factories to see something being made. I don´t think he´s too fussy about what it is. The only one I can think of is Cadburys World, does anyone else know places to go where you can see things being made etc?

South England helpful, although would travel, we don´t live in UK so would be holiday treat thing.

TIA

I was going to suggest a whisky distillery .

I was going to suggest a whisky distillery .

ooh you have to watch 'how is is made' on discovery i think he'll love that! they went to a lego factory yesterday and a lino factory (not so exciting)

not sure where in UK you will be going, but in Plymouth there is a glass blowing 'factory' inside the glass shop in the barbican area.

A lot of the china/pottery companies do them --Royal Worcester , Spode , Wedgewood . So do the Cotswold Perfumery in Bourton on the Water, Hawes Ropemakers in Yorkshire.

Where do you live? There are some international sites listed here .

think i could disguise a distillery trip as educational? perhaps an economic case study of scottish micro industries......

we don´t get discovery. dammit. going to see if i can watch it online maybe?

love to do glassblowing, thanks bellie. I´m sure there is somewhere you can see sweets being made? off we go to google!

thanks all

blimey lemonaid, that´s amazing! How did you do that!?!

we live in Portugal, but family are in Oxfordshire, so will defo put Bourton on the Water on the list.

Thanks so much!

We took the kids to the John Bull factory in Yorkshire and I always loved the Caithness glass factory. all in Scotland.

Also the Wensleydale Creamery - not far from the Hawes ropemakers which lemonaid mentioned. ds loved both of those.

Quite a few breweries do tours - but that's probably not what you have in mind!

Or Poole Pottery is fairly Southern?