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Title: North Factory, 1899 [Go to resource]
Description: The North Manufacturing Department was opened in November 1878 and 4000 employees attended the opening. The guests were served tea, bread and butter and cake and were entertained from 7pm to 10pm with lectures, juggling, clairvoyants, comic sketches and dancing. The new department covered the area known as Blake's Wharf on the north bank of the River Kennet now occupied by Sainsbury's Homebase. This image shows biscuits emerging from the cutting machine, travelling along a conveyer belt and then being hand fed into ovens. 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 University Library Subjects: trade
working lifeTemporal: start=1899-01-01; end=1899-12-31; 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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