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Last week’s Now and Then was of the Burton’s biscuit factory at Llantarnam.
Robert James sent in these photos of the factory's 50 year celebrations.
He said: "Tree is being planted by Gary H Weston, the then-chairman and son of original chairman Garfield Weston.
"The site was built in 1938 by Mr Weston with help from the Nuffield Trust to provide employment for people of the Monmouthshire and South Wales valleys.
"The old ICI/British Nylon Spinners site at Mamhilad being built about the same time. Pilkington glass works at new inn pontypool was built around the same time as I believe the old hurlings brake site in Cwmbran."
This picture of Burton's Biscuits dates from the 1970s. Originally it was Weston's Biscuits, the factory was built in the very late 1930s or very early 1940s and was famous for its Wagon Wheels, these and their other products were exported all around the world. They used to have a shop where you could buy reject or broken biscuits for only pennies a bag.
Dave Woolven, Newport
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