Carr

Carr may refer to:

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Carré

Carré is a French word, which means "square". Carré may refer to:

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Carrè

Carrée

French name for the double whole note, which has a rectangular notehead in mensural notation

Carrè

Carrè is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is east of SP349.

Twin towns

Carrè is twinned with:

Compans, France, since 2004

References

Carr's

Carr's is the name of foodstuff and agricultural brands historically derived from founder Jonathan Dodgson Carr, but now owned and marketed by more than one separate company.

History

In 1831, Carr formed a small bakery and biscuit factory in the English city of Carlisle; he received a royal warrant in 1841. Within fifteen years of being founded, it was the largest baking business in Britain. His business was both a mill and a bakery, an early example of vertical integration, and he produced bread by night and biscuits by day. The biscuits were loosely based on dry biscuits used on long voyages by sailors. They could be kept crisp and fresh in tins, and despite their fragility could easily be transported to other parts of the country by canal and railway.

Jonathan Carr protested against the Corn Laws, which imposed steep tariffs on imported wheat, keeping the price of British wheat artificially high. This meant that bread was expensive, even in times of famine. Carr died in 1884, but by 1885, the company made 128 varieties of biscuit and employed 1000 workers.