Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 4. p 711
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| Title | Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 4. p711 |
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| Page number | 711 |
| Date | 1919 |
| Edition | |
| Publisher | Unknown |
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The First Communal Kitchen in Reading
Record of Triumphant Progress
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The Reading Education Committee decided to use the Southampton Street premises for the first communal kitchen, and steps were at once taken to adapt the premises to its new use and to provide the additional apparatus required. This included the provision of a counter, cash office and a cool store chamber, the work being carried out by the Committee's own workmen. In addition to the three large steam coppers and gas stove, the property of the Education Committee, the section installed a Portway Fuel Roasting Oven and a Wright's Pudding Steamer at a cost of £64. The cost of these two cookers and the fixing of the same has been defrayed out of the £100 provided by the Council. The kitchen was opened on the 3rd September, and has continued to open every day except Sundays. On 17th Sept the Mayoress, accompanied by the Mayor, officially opened the Kitchen.
The official supervision of the kitchen and purchase of the food is undertaken by the Committee's own meals superintendent Mr F.W. Marsh. The kitchen has been visited by inspectresses from the Board of Education, who have expressed their approval of the organisation and the cooking.
On October 18th Miss Manley, Liason Officer between the Board of Education and the Ministry of Food, who has been acting on behalf of the public kitchens in collaboration with Mr C. Herman Senn, the cookery expert, and who has just returned from a visit to Paris where she inspected the French communal kitchens, paid a visit to the Reading kitchen, accompanied by Miss Ferguson h.M.I. Board of Education, and Miss Pearce, Organiser of Domestic Services in Reading. Miss Manley made an exhaustive survey of the entire kitchen and expressed the greatest satisfaction with what she saw. Since then the kitchen has continued to cater for a large public and everything has progressed in a satisfactory manner. Lady Askwith has twice visited the kitchen and has been pleased with the arrangements; so much so in fact that she has asked the superintendent Mr F. W. March to write a pamphlet explaining the work.