CWS Reading Jam Factory
From Graces Guide
The Co-operative Wholesale Society built a factory at Coley Park, Reading to make and bottle jam.
1916 The factory was completed but, because of wartime shortages of glass and sugar, production could not start.
Part of the factory premises were used by Avro to construct the 504 aircraft.
1919 the factory started to produce preserves. It supplied CWS shops with own brand jam, tinned fruit and pickles.
1922 'The New Season’s Strawberry Jam 1s now on sale at all our 30 Branches, direct from the C.W.S. modern factory at Reading. All jam jars are more or less the same, but the jars from the factory contain the real flavour of fresh strawberries cooked in pure sugar, exactly the right length of time.'[1]
1968 The factory finally closed.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 20 July 1922
- Industrial Reading [1]