Coleman Project Space presents a free exhibition reflecting on life and work at the Peek Frean Biscuit Factory in Bermondsey on the twentieth anniversary of its closure. Peek Frean biscuit factory returns to Bermondsey as Memory Factory 2009, with three weeks of free events, a new film and a free booklet to take away, featuring old photographs and the memories of former Peek Frean workers. Memory Factory 2009 builds on previous projects relating to the Peek Frean biscuit factory situated in Bermondsey. In 2004, Coleman Project Space together with msdm (artist Paula Roush) held the first Memory Factory running a number of tea salons inviting former workers, their relatives and members of the public to meet in the gallery to reminiscence and share their stories about work and life at Peek Frean.
Later in 2004, Paula Roush staged SOS: OK an emergency food relief operation, consisting of distributing emergency biscuits recreating memories around real life provision from Peek Frean the first ever food relief to the starving people of the siege of Paris 1874. In 2006, Coleman Project Space presented Memory Factory 2006, on the anniversary of the famous Cricks and Martin film of 1906 again inviting former employees to share memories and view the new digitally re-mastered films Biscuit Town & Old Ways New Ways by Sands Films. Peek Frean operated in Bermondsey from 1867 to 1989, the factory played an important role in forming the economic and social climate: the factory was one of the largest employers in Southwark, at its peak 4000s people worked there. Families worked at Peek Frean for several
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