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Title: Fanlight from main entrance of factory, 1937 [Go to resource]
Description: A committee of directors and managers was set up in 1934 to look at improving the Victorian offices. It reported that they could not be adapted for modern working practices and should be replaced. In 1936 the Victorian office buildings on Kings Road were demolished to build a much grander office front to the biscuit factory. The new building in a modern style included an impressive main entrance. The four-storey steel framed and reinforced concrete offices were completed in early 1937 and cost £55,000. A new Board Room, directors' and managers' offices were on the first floor and the invoice and ledger offices were on the upper floors. 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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architectureTemporal: start=1937-01-01; end=1937-12-31; 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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