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Title: Links: Food and Drink
Post by: RootsChat on Tuesday 23 March 04 21:36 GMT (UK)

A brief history of Gin (http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/brief-history-gin)
History of Greenalls Gin (http://www.gjgreenall.co.uk/expertise/heritage/history-of-greenalls/)

Plymouth Gin (the Oldest of England's Distilleries)- see Heritage and Timeline for historical informatio n http://www.plymouthgin.com/discovery/heritage-timeline.php (http://www.plymouthgin.com/discovery/heritage-timeline.php)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Gin

Guinness (http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/History.aspx)- includes section on genealogy (http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/GenealogySearch.aspx)

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Part of our collection includes the surviving personnel records of past employees from the 1880s to when a pension payment ceased in the late 1990s, early 2000s. We hold over c. 20,000 individual employee files, accounting for c. 80% of all employee files from this period. These personnel files do not contain employee photographs.

Title: Re:Links: Food and Drink
Post by: jaq on Wednesday 24 March 04 22:03 GMT (UK)

well this has been absorbing, following up on Junes Query re: "1950 memories" i looked up a few more food history sites. the following are especially good,lots of old photos, some named people who worked at the factories etc

History of Quaker Oats (http://www.quakeroats.com/about-quaker-oats/content/quaker-history.aspx)- i didnt know quaker were first to put "premiums" in the cereal boxes and recipes on the boxes.

Cadbury chocolate history
http://www.cadbury.co.uk/the-story

History of Heinz (http://www.heinz.com/our-company/about-heinz/history.aspx) again, lots of info and photos.


[dont worry June, we WILL find the CHEF pickle/preserve makers]
jaq  ;D

Title: Re: Links: Food and Drink
Post by: Christopher on Wednesday 14 May 08 06:04 BST (UK)

The Potato History http://www.indepthinfo.com/potato/history.shtml