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The plant is now supplied by lorry, collecting product from 50 miles (80 km) radius. In 2007, Wissington was the site of the UK's first bioethanol power plant, the excess heat from which was used to heat on-site greenhouses that produced 70 million tomatoes each year; in 2017, the greenhouses switched to producing cannabis plants for medicine production.
Of the 18 factories which were owned by the British Sugar Corporation, only four still process beet - Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk), Cantley (in Norfolk, the second and first successful British sugar factory in 1912), Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire) and Wissington (western Norfolk and the largest in Europe). The Bury site is also a major ...
The Quilters' Guild Museum Collection, which opened in St Anthony's Hall, York, on 7 June 2008 but closed on 31 October 2015, was Britain's first museum dedicated to the history of British quilt making and textile arts. The museum was founded and operated by the Quilters' Guild of the British Isles. The guild was formed in 1979 and is the ...
The Great British Bake Off’s sophomore season was filmed at Valentines Mansion, a 1696 home in London’s Redbridge borough within Valentines Park, a 128-acre property featuring gardens, a lake ...
The guild was a craft co-operative modelled on the medieval guilds and intended to give working men satisfaction in their craftsmanship. Many of the members were socialists . Skilled craftsmen, working on the principles of John Ruskin and William Morris , were to produce hand-crafted goods and manage a school for apprentices.
Today, there are many competitions that include sugar sculpture. Sugar showpieces can be composed of several different types of sugar elements. All begin with cooking sugar, and possibly an acidic agent and/or non- sucrose sugar product to avoid unwanted crystallization, to the hard crack stage , around 300 °F (149 °C).
British Garden Centres (legally incorporated as Woodthorpe Hall Garden Centres Ltd.), is a British chain of garden centres based in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. [1] By 2022, it operated over sixty locations. [2] [3] It is the UK’s largest garden centre operator by number of sites. [4] [5]
The Craft Guild of Chefs is the main professional association for chefs in the UK. Established in 1885 under its former name of the Cookery and Food Association, [1] it is sited near Kew Gardens station in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It holds the annual National Chef of the Year awards. [2]