Gray Dunn "Blue Riband" milk chocolate wafer advert, 1955
I have to say that as a child I did rather like "Blue Riband" biscuits! They were quite a treat when we lived in Scotland and I do recall they were larger than the wafer biscuits now available and that are still branded as "Blue Riband"! They were produced by the Glasgow based biscuit makers of Gray Dunn who had introduced them in 1936 and they soon became one of the most popular biscuits of their type in the national market.
Gray Dunn were formed in 1853 and, in later years, I've seen two versions of their history that I can't quite unpick. Some sources note a takeover by the Glasgow bakers of Bilslands Brothers but the company was also associated with Rowntree's at some point and appears to have fallen into the maw of Nestle, the company who apparently still produce the biscuits now in Poland, the Glasgow plant having been closed many years ago.
Gray Dunn "Blue Riband" milk chocolate wafer advert, 1955
I have to say that as a child I did rather like "Blue Riband" biscuits! They were quite a treat when we lived in Scotland and I do recall they were larger than the wafer biscuits now available and that are still branded as "Blue Riband"! They were produced by the Glasgow based biscuit makers of Gray Dunn who had introduced them in 1936 and they soon became one of the most popular biscuits of their type in the national market.
Gray Dunn were formed in 1853 and, in later years, I've seen two versions of their history that I can't quite unpick. Some sources note a takeover by the Glasgow bakers of Bilslands Brothers but the company was also associated with Rowntree's at some point and appears to have fallen into the maw of Nestle, the company who apparently still produce the biscuits now in Poland, the Glasgow plant having been closed many years ago.