Date: 8/11/2026 14:24:01
From: party_pants
ID: 2446705
Subject: re: Old Photos 2
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Huntley & Palmer’s biscuit factory in Reading, the town of my birth, photographed from the air in the 1920s.It was the biggest biscuit factory in the world, covering 24 acres and producing over 400 varieties of biscuits, with its own internal railway connected to the GWR.
All gone by the 1980s apart from the former Factory Social Club building.
That’s when biscuits were big and meant something and not just used as a throw away line in and online forum meme.
Huntley & Palmer’s are also renowned for their artistic biscuit tins, like this beauty from 1910.
Meybe that’s why the eventually went broke. Too much cost tied up in the packaging :)

