Comments for Hazle Ceramics @ A Piece of Britain

Comment on New! Charles Dickens Set by chinatown

chinatown — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:30:05 +0000

I was at the launch of the original Dickens Museum ceramic at the building itself in London with great grandson Cedric Dickens. I also bought some of the special Dickens paintings back then. This is a great set and I look forward to seeing more. I love the fact that Hazle Ceramics has this “special relationship” with Dickens.

Comment on Queen Victoria’s Biscuit Maker by Marilyn

Marilyn — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:43:44 +0000

Hello Sharon and Roy
We are forwarding both your email addresses to Drummond who will hopefully be in touch.

Comment on Queen Victoria’s Biscuit Maker by Roy Beattie

Roy Beattie — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:57 +0000

Hi. Marilyn.
I was very interested to see the comments from Drummond Romary Forbes, concerning the information he found from the Nestle archive. I too found some interseting information from the Romary archive held in Rowntrees collection by The Borthwick Institute in York. Would it be possible to make contact with Drummond through your website, to enable us to swap information on the Romary family?.

Comment on Queen Victoria’s Biscuit Maker by sharon romary rorabaugh

sharon romary rorabaugh — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:27:19 +0000

I have seen your comments about Tunbridge Wells. I would love to have any thing about “Romary” history. I’ve been working on my family descendants, but I’ve found so much connections by marriage that in some cases I’ve found about 15-18 great great grandparents.
One of them was Stephen Romary. I know that he was born in Heathfield Sussex England, died 1845 in Southborough Kent England. He married I believe Mary Watkins. Also I know that the Romary family also had a winery in England. A distant cousin, Middlebushers had a bottle on their kitchen counter that I saw one day long ago. Was wondering if there was any information about this. I haven’t seen any yet.

Comment on Queen Victoria’s Biscuit Maker by Drummond Romary Forbes

Drummond Romary Forbes — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:14:54 +0000

Hi Marilyn.

I looked into the Romary archive some years ago now . We were about to have our Reunion in Royal Tunbridge Wells so it was a good stimulus.

Yes – I did make an appointment to view the archive. It was really interesting to see so much information. That’s the good news. The bad news is that much of the really old records are not there. What I found were Minute books and artefacts that followed the progress of Romary through to Rowntree and its eventual demise having sold all its premises in TW after moving equipment and production.

It seems the demise was really prompted by the restrictions during the wars and then into the 50’s on the very essence of Romary’s production – butter and sugar. Alternative products were devised but of course – by then – mass production of biscuits was necessary to maintain quality, output and lower costs that Romary in TW could not match.

So – it is a lovely memory! My mother never had the recipes sadly – but she could remember talk of the baking and some of the Lino cuts that appear in adverts for Romary’s do show the paddle bringing biscuits from an oven. This highlights the very labour intensive baking process that was used.

Comment on Queen Victoria’s Biscuit Maker by Marilyn

Marilyn — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:39:51 +0000

Hello Drummond
Do you have the booklet produced by the museum called The Story of Romary’s? This has something on production. It costs £1.25 plus postage. I rang the museum on Wednesday and spoke to Jamie Taylor. You can order it from jamie.taylor@tunbridgewells.gov.uk. In the meantime we would love to hear your interesting information from the Nestle archive!

Comment on Queen Victoria’s Biscuit Maker by Drummond Romary Forbes

Drummond Romary Forbes — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:25:28 +0000

Just seen your posts. I have a pretty well documented family History of the Romary Family. My great Maternal Great Grandfather was Alfred Romary. I have managed to find some interesting information from the Nestle archive. Sadly – nothing about the production process. I wonder if any of you have been to the Museum in Tunbridge Wells to see if they have any information?

Comment on A Canterbury Tale by dawsey

dawsey — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:25:08 +0000

I love this site, just thought I’d let you know.

Comment on Our Sister Site by Clay Clatur

Clay Clatur — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:06:18 +0000

Love the revised Hazle Ceramics Guide. To say it has a “feast of information” may be an understatement. Great job!

Comment on A Canterbury Tale by sharon romary-rorabaugh

sharon romary-rorabaugh — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:28:49 +0000

Would love to see and visit my ancestors’ place of living even though I don’t know if I’m able to go to England or Ireland, because of my physical body. It’s been very hard for me to get around now. I would love to hear from my different ancestors. Thanks.