Projects

SWEET REMEMBRANCE

Also in 2021, the opportunity arose to get involved in a project for Sheffield General Cemetery Trust – to research and publish information on confectioners buried there. My knowledge of confectionery (all gained through the Thorne’s work) soon found me appointed as Lead Researcher, working alongside the Trust’s marvellous research team and staff from Sheffield City Council’s Lottery-funded Parks for People project.

Although the project took my attention away from Thorne’s for about two years, it was of considerable benefit to learn more about the confectionery industry as well as how to write, compile and publish extensive research material, along with a 232-page book: Sweet Remembrance. Sheffield Archives and Sheffield Local Studies Library hold the full research. Oh, and yes, I did manage to sneak a reference to Thorne’s into this book too!

SO WHERE WILL IT ALL END?

Being retired, I now have much more time to devote to Thorne’s. To answer the list of current research questions (assuming there are answers to be found) will probably take me beyond 2026.

The plan now is to produce a book on Thorne’s, probably a private publication, aimed at getting my research available in local libraries.

I also hope to find an organisation that will receive my now extensive collection of Thorne’s ephemera when I am no longer able to care for it.

Sheffield General Cemetery Trust, ISBN 978-1-7390808-0-8 ↩︎