Leicester storey of Walker's Oxford Street factory in Leicester. In the early days the potatoes were sliced by hand and cooked in an ordinary fish and chip fryer. In 1971 the Walker's crisps business was sold to Standard Brands, an American firm, who sold on the company to Frito-Lay. Walker's crisps makes 10 million bags of crisps per day at two factories in Beaumont Leys, and is the UK's largest grocery brand. The Beaumont Leys manufacturing plant is world's largest crisp factory. Meanwhile, the sausage and pie business was bought out by Samworth Brothers in 1986. Production outgrew the Cobden Street
Vista, The Royal Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Society for the Blind Vista, The Royal Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Society for the Blind Vista, The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Society for the Blind is an independent charity that provides services for blind and partially sighted people of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland of whom there are nearly 6000 recipients. Today Vista is the largest provider of services in the East Midlands area for visually impaired people run as an independent charity Vista's Community Services are one of the largest and most successful in the country. Vista has one simple aim which is to give visually impaired people the support they need to enjoy