B IS FOR BISCUIT Traditional Cache
NoOfTheBeast: Not really playing anymore, so time to retire this one :(
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(micro)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
Some of my caches will take you to points of reading where i have found facts about the area which i would like to share with every one
Reading has historically been famous for the 3 B's. These were items that the Town produced.
From 1870 until the 1970s, Reading was known as ‘Biscuit Town’ because of the fame of Huntley & Palmers biscuits. The population of Reading boomed and the firm influenced almost every aspect of life in the town. Reading Prison was nick-named ‘the biscuit factory’ because of its close proximity to the factory and Reading Football Team were known as the ‘Biscuit Men’.
When Joseph Huntley opened his bakery in London Street, Reading he could not have foreseen the part that the business would eventually play in the life of the town. The bakery stood on the busy London to Bath road, near the Crown coaching inn and each day Joseph Huntley would send a boy to sell biscuits to the hungry coach travellers. As the railways developed, Reading's position on the main line from London to the West Country meant that Huntley & Palmers biscuits could be easily transported around the country.
The opening of the Kings Road factory in 1846 led to a dramatic increase in the number of people employed by the firm. From 16 workers in 1844, this figure reached 5,000 within 50 years. This demand for labour contributed to the town’s population growth from 19,000 to over 88,000 in 1911.
From the end of the First World War, Huntley & Palmers encountered difficulties in recruiting enough staff. Despite attempts to bring in workers from other parts of the UK the firm continued to suffer from a shortage of labour. On 24 November 1972 the Reading Chronicle reported that a decision had been taken to close Huntley & Palmers down. It stated ‘News of the run-down came as a blow….for Huntley & Palmers is synonymous with the town.’ Biscuit production finally ceased in Reading in 1976 and the office block was demolished in the 1990s.
The cache is a magnetic nano
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
k znexf gur fcbg
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures