Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Far Famed Cake Co

From Graces Guide

Far Famed Cake Company of Rifle-street, Poplar, London

1881 Business started.

1884 Announce new premises at 231-33 High Street, Poplar. Cakes of all descriptions.[1]

1950 Acquired by Fitch Lovell

Became part of Hales Trent Cakes. About 320 people worked in the London factory producing almost 25 per cent of Hale's total sales. The output went straight into the Hale's distribution system apart from the own-label products for F. W. Woolworth


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Sources of Information

  1. East End News and London Shipping Chronicle - Friday 01 February 1884