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Title: Huntley & Palmers Handcart, date unknown [Go to resource]
Description: In 1822 Joseph Huntley started making biscuits in his small shop in Reading. It stood on the busy London to Bath road, near the Crown coaching inn and each day biscuits were sold from a basket to the hungry coach travellers. When George Palmer joined the business he is said to have introduced handcarts so they could sell more biscuits to travellers and passers-by in the town. This handcart was discovered in a derelict state in the factory in 1950s and was restored by employees. 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: social history
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working lifeTemporal: start=1841-01-01; end=1950-12-31; 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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