Macclesfield
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Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England. It is sited on the River Bollin and the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Fores
Macclesfield Town Hall
Church of St Michael, Macclesfield – Savage Chapel geograph.org.uk 5667327
The Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre geograph.org.uk 4117884
Macclesfield Canal, Marple
Hovis
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Hovis Ltd is a British company that produces flour, yeast and bread. Created by miller Richard "Stoney" Smith at his small mill in Stone, Staffordshire, it began mass-production when Smith partnered w
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…middle of the 17th century and became a major silk-manufacturing centre from the mid-18th century. The Macclesfield Canal was constructed in 1826–31. Hovis breadmakers were another Victorian employer; modern industries include pharmaceuticals, such as Astra Zeneca. Multiple mill buildings are still standing and several…
Grave of Richard "Stoney" Smith in Highgate Cemetery. The inscription details his discovery of the "Hovis" process.
Hovis's managing director giving a pep talk to staff in 1935
Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, where Ridley Scott filmed the 1973 Hovis commercial
Hovis bread monument at Gold Hill