Walkers (snack foods) Walkers (snack foods) Walkers is a British snack food manufacturer mainly operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Walkers was founded in 1948 in Leicester, England by Henry Walker, and in 1989 was acquired by Lay's owner, Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. They are best known for manufacturing potato crisps, and other, non-potato-based snack foods. It holds 56 percent of the British crisps market.<ref name="bbc.co.uk/food"></ref> The Walkers site in Leicester is the largest crisp production plant in the world, producing over 11 million bags of crisps per day and using about 800 tons of potatoes. In the 1880s, Walker moved
S. Talbot Smith member of the weekly program "Information Please" broadcast on Radio 5AD from 1940 to 1949. It was broadcast "live" with a studio audience, with the "experts" attempting to answer questions sent in by listeners. Other panelists were Dr. J. J. Bray, A. M. Bills (a master at SPC) and Steve McKee (football journalist). He was also Talbot Smith was awarded an OBE in 1941. S(ydney) Talbot Smith BA LLB (1861– 3 October 1948) married Florence Oliver Chettle ( – 21 September 1935) on 2 June 1887; their children were: S. Talbot Smith Sydney Talbot Smith OBE (21 April 1861 –