Superior quality (From Malvern Gazette)

Superior quality

11:16am Friday 27th July 2007 in Letters

I WAS pleased to read (Malvern Gazette, July 20) that the owners plan to restore the historic Holy Well and resume the water bottling operation. However, in your resume of the history of the well, I was surprised that no mention was made of J H Cuff and Company, who operated the plant at the beginning of the last century and continued to bottle the water, and to manufacture soft drinks up until the outbreak of World War Two. My late father managed the plant for much of this period and I recall that the soft drinks, presumably using pure well water, were sold in licensed premises over a wide area.

I wonder if any of your older readers recall this company and its products, which, I always understood, were of a superior quality, though, of course, my father may have been somewhat biased in his views!

BARRY K ALLISON, Brook Farm Drive, Malvern.