A "forgotten" relic that casts light on part of a city's social history is to be restored. The Star of David window at the disused Carr's biscuit factory in Carlisle was created circa 1909 when ...

In 1861, Jonathan Dodgson Carr invented a biscuit for Peek Freans consisting of currants sandwiched between a pair of crispy layers, one we know today as the Garibaldi. It is a little unclear what ...

then brought aboard John Carr (the same Carr of those well-known water biscuits). Until this time, biscuits were a grisly necessity; weevil-infested hunks of sawdust loaded onto ships for onerous ...