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Offline Llenrap

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Re: Bensons Sweets Bury
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 09 August 18 18:27 BST (UK) »
Hi,
I am researching the Bury area through my grandmother's diaries and found a reference to the family going on a tour of Meadowcroft's Sweet Factory in Bury in January 1905. Perhaps this became Benson's?

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Re: Bensons Sweets Bury
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 09 August 18 20:44 BST (UK) »
Does anybody know the history of this sweet makers?
I believe my grandma went to work for them age 10 in 1892.She could eat as many sweets as she wanted. Sounded wonderful.
Sue.

A friend and a family member worked there in 1970s/1980s. They both stopped helping themselves to sweets before the end of 1st week.
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Re: Bensons Sweets Bury
« Reply #11 on: Friday 10 August 18 15:18 BST (UK) »
A member of my family once had a stop-gap job at White Hudsons in Southport, a sweetie and stick of Rock factory, and said no-one ever wanted to eat the sweeties made after the first few days. Think it must have been fairly general.
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