SPRATTS - High Street, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 1NQ.
Posted by: MeerRescue
N 51° 21.591 E 001° 26.117
31U E 391058 N 5691004
A large ghost sign on the side of a residential building at High Street / Stanley Place, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 1NQ.
Waymark Code: WMENVW
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/20/2012
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The large painted words OVAL
AND WEETMEET were easily visible on the side of this building, but the top line
wasn't so easy. If you look really close when at GZ, the letters TTS are visible
on the 'top row'.
A little jiggery pokery on Photoshop provided the clue I needed. The top row
would have been SPRATTS.
In the 1850's James Spratt, an
American electrician, came over to England. Having seen the chewy gristle
meal that London market porters made for their dogs, he realised the commercial
potential for canning and baking his own version. In 1861 he patented his dog
food, made with wheat meal mixed with rendered meat and vegetable which was then
baked. Spratt's became the world's first large scale manufacturer of dog
biscuits, and had become a dog food pioneer, with a concept of animal life
stages and appropriate foods for each stage. Spratt's WEETMEET #1 was
promoted for puppies, "from the time of weaning, builds up the puppy's frame,
muscle and digestive power." Spratt's OVALS, and later BONIO, where soon
household names world wide.