MEMORIES: Five decades of Wigan Heinz factory staff and event pictures
By Charles Graham
Published 13th Nov 2023, 15:45 BST
Heinz has been one of Wigan’s biggest employers for many decades with a factory first in Standish and then its massive plant at Kitt Green which produces billions of baked beans a year to this day.
This picture gallery celebrates its workers over the decades, from the 1950s through to the famous royal visit in 2009 to celebrate the Kitt Green operation’s golden anniversary.
41. Longest serving male employee, Malcolm Hull, presents The Queen in 2009 with a framed picture of the Queen Mother on her 1959 visit to Heinz