Christmas cracker as rival varieties came on the market. The other elements of the modern cracker—the gifts, paper hats and varied designs—were all introduced by Tom Smith's son, Walter Smith, to differentiate his product from the rival cracker manufacturers which had suddenly sprung up. Tom Smith merged with Caley Crackers in 1953. A memorial water fountain to Tom Smith and his family stands in Finsbury Square, London. The longest Christmas cracker pulling chain consisted of 1081 people and was achieved by The Harrodian School in Barnes, London, UK, on 10 December 2015. Passengers on commercial flights in the United States are explicitly
Jon Baker (producer) 13 September 2010, and was received well by critics in Europe. Jon Baker (producer) Baker was born in 1960. His father was a specialist car dealer and his mother Maureen Baker was head designer at the British ready-to-wear fashion firm Susan Small, who designed dresses for Princess Anne (including her wedding dress) and other notable people. In 1977 Baker went to the Chelsea School of Art in London, where he was introduced to the punk scene. In 1978, he opened "Blooz", a shop in Kensington Market that specialized in punk rock and new wave style T-shirts. By the end of