Pascall sweet factory

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In 1998 I needed to find an office in London and visited several premises with an agent. I selected suitable offices at 2 Valentine Place, Blackfriars. The morning I moved in I faxed contact details to my father who 'phoned straight back to say that my great grandfather, James Pascall who started a confectionery business in 1866, had built a sweet factory in the area in the 1890s. I reseached the London Directory and old Ordnace Survey maps in the local library and found that I had actually rented offices in the factory building that my great grandfather had had built in 1897. (It was actually a replacement for the first factory, burnt down by a disgruntled employee, he had built on the site.) Incidentally, the confectinery tradition of the premises continues: Green and Blacks head office is in the same premises today.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:08:52 +0000Coincidence ID:4064

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Sat, 14/01/2012 - 2:39pm

The widow of one of the sweet Pascalls lived in our village until she was nearly 100. There also lived here too her son James!