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Description: | Huntley & Palmers were the principal suppliers of sledging biscuits for Captain Scott's 'Terra Nova' Antarctic expedition. Several biscuit containers still survive at the Cape Evans hut where Scott had established his winter quarters in 1911. The typed label reads: 'These two Biscuits have been taken from a tin found in an open packing case outside one of the huts at a camp set up by Captain Scott in the Antarctic in 1912. Although the tin was badly rusted the Biscuits remained and are quite crisp in spite of the fact they are over forty years old. The actual tin was one of three which were brought back by the New Zealand expedition which visited the camp recently and who passed them to the Scott's Polar Research Institute, Cambridge'. | 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: | Captain Robert Falcon Scott social history trade events event biscuit | Temporal: | start=1911-01-01; end=1911-12-31; | 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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