. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. BISCUITS, SEEDS, AND SAUCE 135 is rapidly adding to tliem. Tliis prosperity proceeds from several causes, Reading being— " 'Mongst other things, so widely known, For hiscuits, seeds, and ; Tiie town, of course, stands for biscuits in the minds of most people, and the names of Huntley and Palmer have become household words, somewhat eclipsing Cock's Readino- Sauce, and the seeds of Sutton's ; while f
. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. BISCUITS, SEEDS, AND SAUCE 135 is rapidly adding to tliem. Tliis prosperity proceeds from several causes, Reading being— " 'Mongst other things, so widely known, For hiscuits, seeds, and ; Tiie town, of course, stands for biscuits in the minds of most people, and the names of Huntley and Palmer have become household words, somewhat eclipsing Cock's Readino- Sauce, and the seeds of Sutton's ; while few people outside Reading are cognizant of its sreat enoineerinor industries. So much for modern Reading, whose principal hero is George Palmer. Mr. Georse Palmer, whose death occurred in 1897, enjoyed the distinction of having a statue erected to him during his lifetime, an unusual honour which he shared with few others — Queen Victoria, the great Duke of Wellington, Lord Roberts, Reginald, Earl of Devon, and, of course, Mr. Glad- stone. Mr. Palmer's fellow- townsmen elected to honour him in this way, and decided to have a statue which should be in every way true to life, and show the man " in his habit as he lived "—one in which the clothes should be as characteristic as the features. Our orandfathers would have represented him wrapped in a Roman too:a, but those notions do not commend themselves to the present age, and so the effigy stands in all the. PALMER S Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harper, Charles G. (Charles George), 1863-1943. London : Chapman & Hall, Limited
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