Churchman's Cigarette Card, Early 20th Century
A Churchman's Cigarettes card, one of a series entitled "Sports & Games in Many Lands". By my childhood in the 1950s/60s cigarette cards had disappeared, or at least I cannot remember any being issued then. We collected Brooke Bond and Hornimans tea cards, impatiently slitting the outer wrapper of the 1/4 pound block to get at the card and often cutting right through, spilling tea, bringing down parental wrath.
William Churchman founded in 1790 in Ipswich, a small pipe tobacco works. In 1888 William Alfred and Arthur Charles Churchman, grandsons of the founder, succeeded their father, Henry, in the business. It was from them that the Company derived its title. At that time output was mainly shag, snuff and tobacco. In in 1901 the American manufacturer Duke & Sons announced they were prepared to spend six million pounds on an aggressive campaign to acquire British and European tobacco firms. To meet this threat, in 1901 W. D. and H. O. Wills, John Player and Sons (Player's), Lambert and Butler, Hignett Brothers (with their associated firms) and Stephen Mitchell and Son, with six other firms, joined forces to found the Imperial Tobacco Co; Churchmans joined in 1902. In May 1992, in order to streamline operations, the parent company moved all production to Bristol, and Churchmans closed the Ipswich factory with the loss of over four hundred jobs.
From a collection of documents amassed by my late brother. These concerned chiefly the pursuit, and buying and selling of, debts by the Newport draper R Gordon Oliver.
Churchman's Cigarette Card, Early 20th Century
A Churchman's Cigarettes card, one of a series entitled "Sports & Games in Many Lands". By my childhood in the 1950s/60s cigarette cards had disappeared, or at least I cannot remember any being issued then. We collected Brooke Bond and Hornimans tea cards, impatiently slitting the outer wrapper of the 1/4 pound block to get at the card and often cutting right through, spilling tea, bringing down parental wrath.
William Churchman founded in 1790 in Ipswich, a small pipe tobacco works. In 1888 William Alfred and Arthur Charles Churchman, grandsons of the founder, succeeded their father, Henry, in the business. It was from them that the Company derived its title. At that time output was mainly shag, snuff and tobacco. In in 1901 the American manufacturer Duke & Sons announced they were prepared to spend six million pounds on an aggressive campaign to acquire British and European tobacco firms. To meet this threat, in 1901 W. D. and H. O. Wills, John Player and Sons (Player's), Lambert and Butler, Hignett Brothers (with their associated firms) and Stephen Mitchell and Son, with six other firms, joined forces to found the Imperial Tobacco Co; Churchmans joined in 1902. In May 1992, in order to streamline operations, the parent company moved all production to Bristol, and Churchmans closed the Ipswich factory with the loss of over four hundred jobs.
From a collection of documents amassed by my late brother. These concerned chiefly the pursuit, and buying and selling of, debts by the Newport draper R Gordon Oliver.