box (Liquorice related)

Packaging for Pontefract Cakes made by W. R. Wilkinson & Co Ltd. The business was established in 1884 and the original factory was based in a malt kiln in Southgate, Pontefract. The company was bought out in 1894 and became a limited company in 1924. A year later a former brush factory in Monkhill was rebuilt as a ‘garden factory’. In 1961 the company merged with the Sheffield based Bassett Group,…