For many years an annual Good Friday charity football match took place at Grayfields between ladies of the two factories. The 1962 match was won by Cerebos 2-1. Money was raised for Guide Dogs for the Blind and the match was kicked off by the Then mayor, Ald D R Ashton.
Date (of image) : 1962
Donor : Hartlepool Museum Service
Creator : NDM
Location
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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