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Description: | At the formal dinner to celebrate the opening of Huntley & Palmers' recreation club in 1899 diners enjoyed mock turtle soup, roast sirloin of beef followed by, of course, biscuits and coffee. The menu has images of sports provided by the club and the back cover has a programme for the Reading Temperance Band. This menu belonged to Edwin Coates, a founder committee member of the Recreation Club. In its first year 2,430 employees joined the recreation club, just under a third of the workforce. Employees took part in activities including football, cricket, shooting, hockey, tennis, quoits and drama. The company's cricket ground in Kensington Road was kept in county cricket condition. | 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: | Dinner for Recreation Club committee social history trade working life Mr recreation societies Coates, E.L. | Temporal: | start=1899-01-01; end=1899-01-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Greenslade and Co | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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