Cereal and Begonias

There's an Australian and New Zealand connection in the Northants town of Burton Latimer, home of Weetabix since 1932. Four businessmen, Bennison Osborne, an Australian; Malcolm Macfarlane, a New Zealander; Arthur Scrutton and Alfred Upton (two Brits) set up the British & South Africa Cereal Company Ltd, to market a product they called Weetabix, which they had been selling in South Africa as Weet-bix. It's still made in the town to this day.


There's also a pleasant old pub in the town, the Olde Victoria Inn, which does a good lunch and has a lovely display of hanging baskets of begonias.