Thursday, June 25, 2009

Crumblies' corner

Spotted this tin in my mother-in-law's sewing basket. She thinks it was her grandmother's which dates it to about 1920. After a bit of a rummage on t'internet, I found that Pontefract Cakes are still manufactured today. After a series of mergers and aquisitions, Wilkinson's of Pontefract are now owned by Tangerine - guardians of many classic British sweet brands (like Mojo's, Chocolate Eclairs, Sharp's Toffee) but also responsible for the questionable repackaging of the Sherbert Fountain...

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