Huntley and Palmers Gallery

This popular gallery tells the story of Huntley & Palmers, Reading's world famous biscuit makers. Discover how Huntley & Palmers pioneered the mass production of biscuits and why Reading became known as the 'Biscuit Town'.

You can see and hear what factory life was like for Huntley & Palmers' thousands of workers, through oral history, photographs and historic film - including the earliest surviving film of a British factory.

To find out more about the Huntley & Palmers Collection on Collections Online website.

Gallery Highlights:

• Almost 300 decorative biscuit tins as well as advertising and artefacts
• An African thumb piano made from a recycled H&P biscuit tin
• A biscuit supplied to Captain Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition
• The rude ‘Kate Greenaway’ biscuit tin that embarrassed the biscuit company!