Sunny Spread

Found a jar complete with lid yesterday in buried in a hedgerow in West Devon. Net weight seven and one eighth ounces, price 10pence halfpenny. The lid is in a remarkable condition considering it has probably been buried for more than 50 years. My mother used a Sunny Spread jar as a sugar bowl in the early sixties.

I just looked on this site out of nostalgia. As I used to live in Watford and well remember the factory I was most interested to find one of the old jar lids recently, buried in a ditch I was clearing out in Norfolk. The price on the lid was 1/-d. There was an empty jar with lid on e-bay recently for the princely sum of 99p. but no takers.

I used to live right behind the factory as a child, in the prefab estate. I used to poke my hand through the wire grating and the men would give me handfuls of peanuts.

The factory had a Hooter that sounded every now and then. When I was 3 apparently I used to fall flat on my face because the hooter frightened me so much.

Robin Woolf was Managing Director of Yeatman & Co when it closed down in Watford in the 1960s. I have a booklet on the history of Yeatman & Co which shows pictures of Mortimer Woolf, Albert Woolf, Julian Woolf, Frank Woolf (Robins father I think), Mortimer Woolf. Sunnyspread was a national branded product and the factory in Watford was always called the Sunnyspread factory by all the locals

In my journey back in my family's history, I have discovered a connection with the Woolf family that owned Yeatman & Co. It's facinating what you turn up! My own mother can remember the delights of Sunny Spread!!

Sunny Spread was a blend of honey and invert sugar. I worked at Yeatman & Co as a buyer for 5 years. The factory closed down in about in the early 1960s and Sunny Spread production was transfred to Cars of Carlisle. The factory in Watford is still in use today and is now the head office of Mothercare.

If it's the same Sunny Spread I used to have as a kid, it is a blend of honey and butter.

I agreewith everything John says. Anyone know what the ingredients were?

This stuff was sooooo delicious! I used to eat jars of it as a kid - why on earth did they stop making it?!!!