Dapol ANT045 Hilliers Bacon Curing Open Coal Wagon Antics Special Edition OO

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Hilliers Bacon Curing was a Nailsworth based company with premises in Newmarket, Nailsworth and Pasonage Street, Dursley. Established in 1819 by Mr Hillier a butcher, in partnership with a Mr Blackwell a limited company was formed in 1865, by which time around 300 pigs per week were being processed. Finished products being advertised including finest Wiltshire bacon, matured hams and sausages. The company is well remembered in Nailsworth for the driving of pigs through the streets from the railway station and a history can be found at http://www.gsia.org.uk/reprints/2005/gi200530.pdf

The company was quick to take advantage of the opening of the Nailsworth railway branch by the Midland Railway, obtaining at least one railway wagon which was used for the supply of coal from the Forest of Dean via Lydney and the Severn Bridge which linked nearby Sharpness and the Midland Railway to the Forest of Dean collieries.

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