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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Chris Slater

Inside Manchester's Willy Wonka warehouse which has the country's biggest stash of sweets

It's a place scores of Mancs, especially those on the east side of the city, will have driven past at some point. Facing Ashburys train station on Pottery Lane in West Gorton, just around the corner from the Etihad Stadium, is Hancocks.

Yet very few outside the trade are likely to have been inside, and its light blue exterior and sign - simply saying 'wholesale' - gives little clue to the wonderland it houses.

Walking through its doors you are hit by the sights of thousands upon thousands of jars, packets, and boxes of sweets and chocolate, stacked up on shelves which stretch up almost as high as the ceiling.

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