Description:Goods being loaded in churns onto narrow boats at the wharf on the Shropshire Union canal at Knighton, near Adbaston. The boat on the left may be a 'Butty' which was towed by a narrow boat. In the background can be seen lorries and a spiral conveyor carrying milk churns.
The Knighton factory was established by Cadbury’s in 1911 to make chocolate crumb for their Bournville factory in Birmingham, at a time when Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate was becoming enormously popular. A ready supply of Staffordshire milk and good links to Bournville via the Shropshire Union Canal made Knighton the ideal site. The wharf still exists but is no longer owned by Cadbury's (2023).