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Description: | This is the former silk factory that George Palmer purchased in 1846 for £1,800. The factory had a floor space of 5,000 square feet and was spread over half an acre in an area between the canal and the River Kennet. From this point on biscuits were produced in quantities that had never been seen before. The location had excellent transport links because of its proximity to the waterways, the railway and the London to Bristol road. By 1855 George Palmer had bought the surrounding properties so that he could continue to expand the business. These included a tobacco factory, six houses facing King's Road and a stable yard. In this print you can see the busy factory yard with carts being loaded up with crates of biscuits. The tall building on the left is probably the former tobacco factory. The factory stable yard is in the bottom left corner and the gardens of the houses are in the foreground. | 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 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | townscape building environment social history trade | Temporal: | start=1855-01-01; end=1855-12-31; | 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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