Despite this impulse to make connections between Rowntree workers across the globe, imperial hierarchies were firmly maintained within the pages of the magazine. Whether he relayed quite such a positive story back to the Nigerian people is impossible to ascertain. The entire collection, including the jaws of a shark and the body of a baby alligator, was placed on display in the visitors' rooms of the factory dining block. The representation of cocoa plantations and farmers in the magazine is indicative of the varied ways in which people and places seemingly fixed at the start of the commodity chain were making their influence felt at the ‘heart’ of chocolate production in York.

Although clearly happy to leave behind “congested” English towns, Mrs Tabuteau expressed a degree of homesickness. Another white male Rowntree representative was being rowed ashore, 23 years later, but this time in the more threatening space of the 'Dark Continent'.This in-house journal had been instigated by their Quaker employer, Joseph Rowntree, in the hope that it would "make up for the loss of personal intercourse" caused by the expansion of the firm.

The CWM of December 1923 featured photos of objects collected by Mr SH Davies in the West Indies, under the heading "From the Land Where the Cocoa Grows". BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed are published by Immediate Media Company Limited under licence from BBC Studios Distribution.Henry Isaac by all accounts was a passionate man, he was able to inspire his workers and generated great loyalty, however he was involved in teaching at the adult school, an influential supporter of the Temperance movement and also ran a local newspaper trying to push a more liberal platform in local politics.