Toffee Smith Plaque 46

Toffee Smith Plaque 46

Spen Valley's Walter Smith founded Toffee Smith whose famous toffee works were at Smith Court on Oxford Road Gomersal. He began by selling 1(old) penny toffee bars to churches as fundraisers and to local miners outside the pits as they clocked off. He retired to Morecambe in 1937 but is buried at Pork Pie Chapel Gomersal (pictured above) which is an unusually-shaped Grade II Listed building. Toffee Smith Ltd continued until the 1990's.