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Description: | When Huntley & Palmers closed their factory in Reading in 1976, some of the machinery from Reading was sent up to their other factory in Huyton, Liverpool. This included the No.1 oven from the South Factory. The baker on the No.1 oven wrote a farewell poem which was kept and reads as follows, 'R.I.P. In Loving Memory of No 1 Oven 1938-1977. You served us well both day and night. You baked them dark you baked them light. You were not left to dream your dreams of Marie - Nice - or Custard Creams. But put into a 'scousers' hand up there in Cream Cracker Land.' 'Up there in Cream Cracker Land' is a reference to Huntley & Palmers 'sister' factory, Jacobs, at Aintree and their famous Cream Crackers. | 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: | cake interior building cake tin social history trade working life tin people | Temporal: | start=1950-01-01; end=1959-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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