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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jess Molyneux

Scouse Easter egg that stood taller than 'a double decker bus'

When it comes to Easter eggs, older generations may claim the sweet confectionary was a lot bigger when they were kids in comparison to what we see on the supermarket shelves.

But for one Scouse Easter egg - that really is an understatement. Back in the 1980s, chocolate barons Tobler Suchard took on the challenge to make a monumental chocolate egg to place in Liverpool city centre.

Constructing "the world's largest Easter egg,' the creation stood "taller than a double decker bus" and beat the then existing record by two feet. Launched in London, the egg was dismantled and rebuilt in Liverpool outside the lost Owen Owen store in Clayton Square.

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