40-611: Ginsters / ˈ ɡ ɪ n s t ər z / is a company based in Callington in Cornwall , in the south-west of England . The largest pasty maker in the UK in turnover, it specialises in making mass-produced pasties, sausage rolls , sandwiches , pasta bowls and other savoury snacks. Since 1977, it has been owned by Mark and David Samworth . The Ginsters family were in the business of supplying horse manure to foundries for mixing with sand for
80-547: A "secret recipe" he claimed to have obtained from a ship's cook. Production slowly increased until by 1970 a staff of 30 was producing 48,000 units a day. Initially Ginsters pasties were sold to pubs, cafés, corner shops and other small stores in Plymouth and nearby seaside towns, before expanding further to cover southern England. In 1977, Geoffrey Ginster retired and sold the business to Samworth Brothers , leading to further growth, modernisation and development. An adjoining factory
120-487: A couple of car parks, although parking can be an issue at bigger games such as local derbies. The original capacity of Polson Bridge, according to press reports, was thought to be around 6,000 but in the current ground this would be unsafe. A more realistic estimate of capacity around the main pitch would be 3,000, including 194 seats in the main stand and the rest standing. The club came close to achieving this capacity figure on 1 September 2007 when 2,995 supporters watched
160-548: A final day relegation to Division 2 (level 3) as an unexpected sequence of final day results saw relegation threatened Birmingham & Solihull and Sedgley Park pull off dramatic wins against Bedford and Rotherham respectively. The Cornish All Blacks were relegated when they had actually won more games than either of their two rivals. In truth the damage had been done earlier in the season when losses against Newbury (away), Nottingham (away), Sedgley Park (away), Birmingham & Solihull (away), Esher (home) came back to haunt
200-475: A most unusual series of results on the last day of the season. However, in 2003–04 Launceston bounced right back by again finishing second but winning the play-off away to Halifax . LRFC finished in 5th position in National League Division 2 (level 3) in 2004–05 and by the end of the 2006–07 season they had been promoted to English National Division 1 (level 2). On 26 April 2008, Launceston suffered
240-445: A population of 4,783 in 2001, according to the 2001 census . This had increased to 5,786 in the 2011 census. The town is situated in east Cornwall between Dartmoor to the east and Bodmin Moor to the west. A former agricultural market town, it lies at the intersection of the south–north A388 Saltash to Launceston road and the east–west A390 Tavistock to Liskeard road. Kit Hill
280-532: Is a mile north-east of the town and rises to 333 metres (1,093 ft) with views of Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor and the River Tamar . The hamlets of Bowling Green, Kelly Bray , Frogwell and Downgate are in the parish. Callington railway station was the terminus of a branch line from Bere Alston , the junction with the Southern Railway 's Tavistock to Plymouth line . The railway line beyond Gunnislake to
320-445: Is now used as the offices for a local driving school. There is also a Tesco supermarket, opened in 2010, which employs 200 local people. Callington has been postulated as one of the possible locations of the ancient site of Celliwig , associated with King Arthur . Nearby ancient monuments include Castlewitch Henge , with a diameter of 96 m and Cadsonbury Iron Age hillfort , as well as Dupath Well built in 1510 on
360-548: Is provided by BBC South West and ITV West Country . Television signals are received from either the Caradon Hill or Redruth TV transmitters. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Cornwall on 95.2 FM, Heart West on 105.1 FM and Pirate FM on 102.2 FM. The town is served by the local newspaper, Cornish & Devon Post which publishes on Thursdays. Callington has both football and cricket teams. Callington Town Football Club (established 1989) has four adult teams playing in
400-627: The European Union in 2011. This product is still made using Ginsters’ original recipe. Since the 1990s the product range has been extended to include a variety of pasties, savoury slices, sausage rolls , pork pies , hot pies, snacks , sandwiches , flatbreads , wraps and packaged salads . Ginsters claim to source their ingredients from neighbouring farms in Cornwall. From 2019, Ginsters has been producing vegan products, for example its Moroccan vegetable pasty , which won an award in 2020. In 2021
440-540: The Reform Act 1832 . The town is now in the South East Cornwall constituency . St Mary's Church was originally a chapel of ease to South Hill ; it was consecrated in 1438 and then had two aisles and a buttressed tower; a second north aisle was added in 1882. Unusually for Cornwall there is a clerestory ; the wagon roofs are old. The parish church contains the fine brass of Nicholas Assheton and his wife, 1466. In
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#1732863090987480-639: The South West Peninsula League , East Cornwall League , Duchy League and South West Regional Women's Football League . They all play at Marshfield Parc, which backs onto Callington Community College . Callington Cricket Club has three teams playing in the Cornwall Cricket League and play their games at Moores Park. Callington Badminton Club plays on a Friday from 1900hrs till 2200hrs at the Community College sports hall. They play in
520-519: The 19th century, Callington was one of the most important mining areas in Great Britain. Deposits of silver were found nearby in Silver Valley. Today, the area is marked by mining remains, but there are no active mines. Granite is still quarried on Hingston Down . The former Callington constituency , a rotten borough , elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons but was abolished by
560-635: The 2010-11 season. The club would spend a number of seasons in National League 2 South until the 2015-16 season. Despite having a promising team that made up the bulk of the Cornwall side that won the 2015 Bill Beaumont Cup , the relegation of nearby Plymouth Albion from the RFU Championship the previous season, would lead to almost the entire Launceston first team leaving to join the Devon club, where incidentally, Graham Dawe (the Cornwall head coach),
600-610: The Callington terminus was closed in the 1960s, due to low usage and difficult operating conditions on the final sections of the line due to several severe gradients and speed restrictions. One can still travel by rail on the Tamar Valley Line from Plymouth as far as Gunnislake via Bere Alston, where trains reverse. For most of its journey the line follows the River Tamar. Gunnislake is the nearest railway station to Callington, although
640-491: The Cornish side of the River Tamar, next to the bridge that gives the ground its name, about 1.5 miles east of the town of Launceston . The ground consists of a main pitch with flood-lights, with the stand on one side of the pitch and a long covered standing terrace on the other, two club-houses with bars including the executive suite, a gym, changing rooms and three additional pitches for 2nd XV and junior rugby. The ground also has
680-690: The Plymouth & District league and run two men's teams, a Ladies team and a mixed/medley team. The club is open to all ages and abilities so everyone is welcome. Callington Bowling Club (established 1946) is based at Chantry Park, off the Liskeard Road. The club has men's teams playing in the Cornwall League, East Cornwall League, and the Plymouth and District League. Ladies teams play in Rippon, Date, and Tamar Leagues. The club also run 3 mixed shortmat teams during
720-463: The biggest crowd seen in a number of seasons, with 1,200 in attendance. It started badly for the home side as Old Cents dominated the first half, which ended 0-19 to the visitors. However, the second half turned to be the complete opposite, as the Cornish All Blacks rallied, scoring five unanswered tries to win the game 33-22 and clinch promotion back to tier 5 . Polson Bridge is situated on
760-453: The chairman of the town council. Callington Town Council has twelve members and covers the civil parish of Callington. At the Council elections in 2013 only ten candidates stood, eight Independents and two Mebyon Kernow Councillors. The current portreeve of the town is Peter Watson. In recent years, the town has seen much residential development with more, including social housing, planned for
800-505: The churchyard there is a Gothic lantern cross. It was first mentioned by the historian William Borlase in 1752. Each of the four faces of the cross head features a carved figure beneath an ogee arch. The heads of these figures have been chiselled off, no doubt in the Commonwealth period. Callington is one of a small number of towns to continue to appoint a Portreeve ; originally a medieval revenue officer and now an honorary title given to
840-574: The club had its own ground at Hurdon Road, rented from the council (now a factory site of its main sponsor DS Smith Plc), with scaffolding poles for goal posts and ex-army huts for changing rooms and a clubhouse. During the 1960s the club moved to another site when the Town Council sold the land, but again moved on in 1969 when the club had the vision to refuse becoming part of the proposed Sports Centre at Pennygillam, which they would have shared with Launceston Football Club . The ground at Polson Bridge
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#1732863090987880-450: The coaching staff and players. During the summer of 2010 Launceston Rugby Football Club Ltd went into administration, with a new company, Launceston Rugby Club Ltd being formed in its place. As a punishment the RFU gave the club a 20-point deduction going into the new season. This gave the club too much to do, and despite a brave attempt they were relegated from National League 1 at the end of
920-414: The company introduced additional vegan pasty fillings, including Bombay potato and spinach , and Cajun Spiced Sweet Potato and Chickpea . From 2002 to 2011, Ginsters sponsored football club Plymouth Argyle F.C. , rekindling this sponsorship in 2016 with a 3-year deal. It also sponsors Callington Town FC, Callington Rugby Club and Launceston Rugby Club ("The Cornish All Blacks"). Ginsters became
960-435: The end of the 2018-19 season, Launceston had come on leaps and bounds, finishing runners up in the league behind local rivals, Okehampton , missing out on the title by just 3 points. Despite this defeat the club's league performances were good enough to book home advantage in the promotion play-off against South West 1 East runners up, Old Centralians . The play-off game was held on 27 April 2019 at Polson Bridge in front of
1000-625: The fifth tier of the English rugby union system following their promotion from Tribute South West 1 West via a play-off in 2019. At present the club fields two senior men's teams, colts (under-18), mini/junior sides (ages 7 to 16), as well as several girls teams (ranging from under-13 to under-18). The club was founded in 1948 after an inaugural meeting chaired by the then Headmaster of Launceston College , Mr Spencer Toy, with Gordon Reeve, Eric Smith and Arthur Venning (who up until his death in February 2017
1040-555: The moulds for casting. The business was based in West Bromwich before finally moving to Longwood Lane, Walsall. After the second world war, Geoff Ginster approached his father saying that he wished to move with his family down to the West Country. He asked his father if it would be possible to have his inheritance early in order to so do. Originally moving to Devon, Geoff Ginster started making clotted cream and became very successful to
1080-551: The nearby River Lynher , was built alongside the Tamar Bakery. In 1990, Ginsters commenced advertising and promotional campaigns to raise awareness of their product. This resulted in Ginsters Original Cornish Pasty being stocked by leading supermarkets, petrol stations, convenience stores and motorway service stations across Britain. Ginsters claim that their Original Cornish Pasty is the biggest selling product in
1120-428: The nearest mainline station is at Saltash. Food manufacturers Ginsters and The Cornwall Bakery (both wholly owned subsidiaries of Samworth Brothers) are the largest employers in the town. Ginsters uses local produce in many of its products, buying potatoes and other vegetables from local farmers and suppliers. Historic listed building The Old Clink on Tillie St, built in 1851 as a lock-up for drunks and vagrants,
1160-563: The next few years. The neighbouring village of Kelly Bray has almost doubled in size in recent years with houses still being built in the area. A housing estate named Meadowbrook is in the process of being built. Callington is twinned with Guipavas in Brittany , France, and Barsbüttel near Hamburg in Germany. It also has unofficial friendship links with Keila in Estonia . Local TV coverage
1200-534: The point where the Milk Marketing Board offered to buy him out. Geoff refused only to be met with the response, "if he did not sell the MMB would cease to supply his business with milk". Geoff Ginster having no choice moved to Cornwall and started his Cornish Pasty business in 1969. They started the business in a near-derelict egg-packing station, with a staff of four. Geoffrey Ginster started production of pasties from
1240-534: The savoury pastry market, and that during a twenty-year period 450 million of them have been sold. The company has donated at least £32,000 to the Conservative Party since 2002, on top of the £610,000 donated by the individual Samworth brothers since 2010. Ginsters’ most popular product is the Original Cornish Pasty. Cornish pasties were granted protected geographical indication (PGI) status from
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1280-458: The site of an ancient sacred spring . Callington was recorded in the Domesday Book (1086); the manor had four hides of land and land for thirty ploughs. The lord had land for three ploughs with eleven serfs. Twenty-four villeins and fourteen smallholders had land for fifteen ploughs. There were also one and a half square leagues of pasture and a small amount of woodland. The income of the manor
1320-472: The title sponsor for Speedworks Motorsport in the 2019 British Touring Car Championship season with the manufacturer backed Toyota Corolla . The team entry was known as Team Toyota GB with Ginsters . Callington, Cornwall Callington ( Cornish : Kelliwik ) is a civil parish and town in east Cornwall , England, United Kingdom about 7 miles (11 km) north of Saltash and 9 miles (14 km) south of Launceston . Callington parish had
1360-521: The top 40 sides in England (from a town with a population of just over 7,000). LRFC gained promotion to National League Division 3 South (level 4) in 2000 and were runner-up in their first season, losing in the play-off away to National 3 North side Sedgley Park . The following season, 2001–02, LRFC were 2nd again, but this time won the play-off against Dudley Kingswinford , and were promoted to Division Two (level 3). They were unfortunate to be relegated after
1400-636: The winter months. Cornish wrestling tournaments, for prizes were held in Callington in the 1800s. Callington has a sizeable Masonic presence with five Masonic bodies meeting at the Masonic Hall on Tavistock Road. Launceston RUFC Launceston Rugby Club (also known as the Cornish All Blacks , the name of the 1st team) is a Cornish rugby club which play at Polson Bridge, Launceston , Cornwall . They are currently in Regional 1 South West , at
1440-479: Was acquired, renovated and equipped with modern baking and packing facilities. It was renamed the Tamar Bakery, and was later extended with new, largely automated, machinery. When it went into operation the original Ginsters bakery was closed. In 1984, Ginsters was producing 1.5 million pasties a week and had become the biggest employer in East Cornwall's private sector. In 1987, a new bakery, named Lynher Bakery after
1480-512: Was director of rugby. This, coupled with Launceston being on their third head coach in a little over a year, contributed to the worst season in the club's league history as they were relegated without winning a game. Despite improved performances the following season in National League 3 South West (including a win against rivals, Camborne ) the club suffered their second successive relegation, dropping to Tribute South West 1 West . By
1520-521: Was purchased in 1969, with developments such as floodlights, enlarged clubhouse, present changing rooms and finally the grandstand being added over the years. The first match at Polson was played on Boxing Day 1969 against a Derek Prout International XV - Derek being the club's first ever full international. In 1981 they then went on to win the Cornwall Senior Cup for the first of many since wins and started their remarkable climb to be one of
1560-455: Was still a club member). Mr Toy had introduced rugby union at the college in 1931, but no town team had been formed until after the war despite efforts being made during the mid-1930s. On 30 October 1948 Launceston Rugby Club played its first ever game away to Launceston College, winning 13-3 (3 tries to 1), with Reeve, Smith and Venning all featuring for the new team; Reeve himself scoring the final try, along with 2 conversions. By Spring 1949,
1600-560: Was £6 sterling. In 1601 Robert Rolle (died 1633) purchased the manor of Callington, thereby gaining the pocket borough seat of Callington in Parliament, which in future served to promote the careers of many Rolles. He nominated to this seat his brother William Rolle (died 1652) in 1604 and 1614, his son Sir Henry Rolle (1589–1656), of Shapwick , in 1620 and 1624, his son-in-law Thomas Wise (died March 1641) of Sydenham in Devon, in 1625, and another son John Rolle (1598–1648), In
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