Marian Metcalfe (later Bunn - aged just 15½), Betty Longmire, Doreen Heron and another workmate, on their lunch break at the Cerebos factory in 1948.
Date (of image) : 1948
Donor : Mrs. Marian Bunn
Location
A selection of photographs and documents kindly shared with this project by Mrs. Marian Bunn.
More detail »Cerebos Salt Works produced salt and Bisto. It was taken over by RHM Foods in the 1960s and over the next years produced a vast range of foods including Paxo stuffing, One Cal lemonade, Capri Sun, Atora suet, Chesswood mushrooms and curries, Brands soup and sauces, Sharwoods chutnies and curries and Cracottes biscuits.
Salt production ceased in 1970 and in November of that year, the salt production block was demolished.
RHM Greatham became known as Sharwoods in the mid-1990s before becoming Centura foods prior to closure in 2003.
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