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Description: | The company was founded by Alfred Marsh, who bought a pork butcher's shop in High Street, Brierley Hill in 1867. In 1871 he established a ham curing and sausage manufacturing business in one shop with slaughtering facilities in Brierley Hill. By 1912, Marsh had bought the old factory of A.R. Baxter of Dale End, Birmingham. Alfred Marsh died in 1918. After World War I Marsh & Baxter Ltd absorbed a number of smaller firms. It became famous for its York Hams, Wiltshire bacon, sausages and pork pies, and from the time of George V held a Royal Warrant for York Hams, and sold to Harrods. Later, Marsh & Baxter became essentially a bacon and pork works. The company was taken over in 1962 by FMC (Falstock Marketing Corporation), and the factory closed in December 1978. The Moor Shopping Centre now occupies the site of the factory. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Dudley Archives | Temporal: | 1709-1959 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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