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Remembering the Thirties: Mass Production


Savoy - who made Woolworths famous 'broken' biscuits. Click for a larger version in a new window. Date: 1936

Above Savoy Biscuit Factory (who made Woolies' famous broken biscuits) pictured in 1936. Picture 1.

The factory Savoy, who made Woolworths' famous broken biscuits/ Pictured in 1936, Click for a larger copy in a new window

The production line at 'Savoy'

Machinery in the factory of Savoy, who made broken biscuits for Woolworths in the 1930s. Click for the larger version in a new window

Above: the chocolate enrobing machine, which added everyone's favourite coating
to Savoy's Biscuits

A long view of the equipment at Savoy's Biscuit Factory, pictured for a feature in Woolworths' staff magazine in 1936. Click for a larger copy in a new window

A long view of the machinery at the Savoy Biscuit Factory.

Advertisement for Savoy Biscuits from 'Good Things to Know Magazine' published by F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd. in 1938

An advertisement for Savoy Biscuits from Good Things to Know magazine,
which was published by F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd. and itself sold to customers for sixpence!

Making Colmans Mustard in their factory at Norwich. Woolworths was a leading outlet at the time. Click for a larger image in a new window

Making Colmans Mustard at their Norwich Factory in 1938. Woolworths sold
vast quantities of mustard from Colmans at the time and commissioned these
pictures to show staff how it was made.

Workers at the Colmans Mustard Factory in Norwich, pictured in a feature of the F. W. Woolworth staff magazine 'The New Bond' in 1938. Click for a larger version in a new window

A long view showing the machinery and production line required to produce
Mustard at the Colmans Factory in Norwich. The picture was first published in 1938.

A factory dedicated to making gentlemen's (tobacco) pipes for Woolworths in the 1930s. Showing how life has changed, most blokes were smokers at the time! Click for a larger version in new window.

A factory dedicated to making gentlemen's (tobacco) pipes for Woolworths in the 1930s.
Showing how life has changed, most blokes were smokers at the time!

Factory workers making tobacco pipes for sale in the Threepenny and Sixpenny Stores of F. W. Woolworth and Co. Ltd. in the UK in the 1930s. Click for a larger version in a new window.

Factory workers making tobacco pipes for sale in the Threepenny and Sixpenny Stores
of F. W. Woolworth and Co. Ltd. in the UK in the 1930s.

Finishing tobacco pipes ready to go on sale at Woolworths. Click for a larger copy in a new window courtesy of WoolworthsReunited dotcom.

Finishing tobacco pipes ready to go on sale at Woolworths.

A pipe for everyone - the finished item on display in the windows of Woolworths in 1936, in the days when tobacco smoking was 'de rigeur'. Click for a larger copy in a new window.

'A pipe for everyone' - the finished item on display in the windows of Woolworths in 1936,
in the days when tobacco smoking was 'de rigeur' - you just weren't a bloke
if you didn't have several pipes to choose between!

Grinding up the ingredients to make Meltonian Shoe Whitener - one of those eclectic products that it seemed you can only get in Woolies! Sixpence of course in 1937. Click for a larger copy in a new window.

Grinding up the ingredients to make Meltonian Shoe Whitener - one of those eclectic products
that it seemed you could only get in Woolies! Sixpence of course in 1937, equivalent to £2.11 today.

Packaging Meltonian Shoe Whitener in a 1930s factory, from the F. W. Woolworth and Co. Ltd. staff magazine 'The New Bond'. Click for a larger copy in a new window.

Packaging Meltonian Shoe Whitener in a 1930s factory, from the
F. W. Woolworth and Co. Ltd. staff magazine The New Bond.

If you ever wondered how they made the toffees that Woolworths sold by the ton on the pic'n'mix - here's a picture. A factory visit eighty years later revealed that much of the production process remained virtually unchanged. For more info. visit the Woolworths Virtual Museum. Click for a larger copy in a new window.

If you ever wondered how they made the toffees that Woolworths sold by the ton
on the pic'n'mix - here's a picture. A factory visit eighty years later revealed that much of the production
process remained virtually unchanged. For more info. visit the Woolworths Virtual Museum, which will
reopen on November 5, 2009.

In appreciation of Harry Vincent's toffee factory, that supplied the finest sweets on the Woolworths pic'n'mix and their successors, the fantastic team at Ashbury Confectionery. We love their yummy sweets at WoolworthsReunited! Click for a larger copy in a new window.

In appreciation of Harry Vincent's toffee factory, that supplied the finest sweets on the
Woolworths pic'n'mix and their successors, the fantastic team at Ashbury Confectionery. We love
their yummy sweets at WoolworthsReunited!

 

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A Sixpenny Romance, celebrating a century of value at Woolworths
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