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Title: Unloading biscuits from the ovens, 1920s [Go to resource]
Description: Trays of unbaked biscuits were fed into the ovens and came out the other side golden brown and perfectly baked. These old ovens were still used until 1925 despite being outdated and in poor condition. As early as 1905 the company directors recognised that new investment was needed in the South Factory but were not willing to spend the necessary capital. The older ovens were used to make small batches of the slow-selling types of biscuit. The South Factory was finally redeveloped in 1937 and reopened in 1939 with two automatic plants running continuous rolling and cutting belts and travelling ovens 204 feet long. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: interior
building
social history
trade
working life
peopleTemporal: start=1920-01-01; end=1925-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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