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Title: Fire at Serpell's factory, 1904 [Go to resource]
Description: Serpells biscuit company transferred their production from Plymouth to Reading in 1899. Relations between Huntley & Palmers and Serpells were cordial, so that when the fire broke out at Serpells factory, the Huntley & Palmers fire brigade quickly attended with F. Blackmore and E. Coates in charge. The Berkshire Chronicle reported that 'A fire, the like of which has not been seen in Reading for some years, broke out between half-past 12 and one o'clock on Saturday morning, as the result of which the biscuit manufactory of Messrs. H.O. Serpells and Co., has been almost completely destroyed'. 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: building
social history
trade
event
fire services
street sceneTemporal: start=1904-01-01; end=1904-12-31; 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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