Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Kendal: Romney's | ||
| Romney's Kendal Mint Cake | ||
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | confectioner's | |
| locality type:- | mint cake works | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5192 (?) | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
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 CAV46.jpg (taken 3.6.2014) |
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| evidence:- | object:- item:- packaging; Kendal Mint Cake |
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| source data:- | "ROMNEY'S / [vignette scenes and portrait of George Romney] / KENDAL MINT CAKE / Manufactured
by / GEORGE ROMNEY, LTD. IN KENDAL / The Gateway to the English Lakes / ..." |
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| evidence:- | newspaper:- |
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| source data:- | Westmorland Gazette, 1953 "KENDAL ON EVEREST / Mr. E. P. Hillary and the Sherpa Tensing carried Romney's Kendal
Mint Cake to the top of Mount Everest at 11.30a.m. on the 29th of May, 1953 ..." |
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 CAV47.jpg (taken 3.6.2014) |
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| hearsay:- |
Sam T Clarke founded a busines to make Kendal Mint Cake, called Romney's becasue the
family lived on Romney Road, 1919. They merged with Wiper's, 1988. |
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