BWM2441 4/12/2015

Berkshire War Memorials

READING - Central - Huntley & Palmers

Located on King's Road

Huntley and Palmers were the Reading Biscuit Factory occupying a huge site between Kings Road and the Railway to the east of the prison.


The last remaining Huntley and Palmers building on Kings Road

They had one general memorial and several departments had their own. The ones identified are:-

Huntley and Palmers (WM5249)
- a general memorial to men who worked at the Biscuit factory and died in WW1

Foreign Section (WM5240)
- to men of the Foreign Section of Huntley and Palmers

Sugar Wafer Section (WM5843)
- to men of the Foreign Section of Huntley and Palmers

All are now with Reading Museum

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