Cake, Elkes & Sons, Uttoxeter

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Date:November 1947

Description:View of a newly assembled three-tier cake with a figure of Eros on the top. With it are the cake’s makers, employees of Elkes & Sons Dove Valley Bakery in Uttoxeter. From left: Mr P Houlder, manager of the cake department; George Moore, who baked the cake; Jack Hutchinson, who decorated the cake. This elaborate cake was made to mark the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten on 20 November 1947.

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Creators: Mr Gerald McCann - Creator

Donor ref:[FP41.6058.76] (37/6519)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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