Daily Herald Photograph: Sugar beets

PART OF:
The photographic library of the 'Daily Herald' newspaper
Made:
1950-11-23 in Ipswich
Daily Herald Photograph: Sugar beets Daily Herald Photograph: Sugar beets

Daily Herald Photograph: Sugar beets
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Daily Herald Photograph: Sugar beets
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

One photograph titled '"Mountain of sweetness" Sugar beet factory faces record year'. Caption on the back reads: 'Thousands of harvest sugar beets lie in a huge pile after being unloaded from lorries at the British Sugar Corporation’s Ipswich factory, Suffolk. The beet will be washed, graded, pulped and the syrup extracted to form the white granulated sugar of the British breakfast table. This year has been something of a record year for the beet harvest and by January something like 5,000,000 tons will have been lifted. (Average yield for East Anglia is 12 tons an acre)'.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/42056
Materials:
paper
type:
photographic print