Barrow's of Birmingham : Pure Chungalla Ceylon Tea packaging, c1960 : logo designed by Reynolds Stone
What a lovely memory of Barrow's, the Birmingham grocers whose Corporation Street store was a childhood favourite of mine! The long established concern, whose origins dated back to 1824 as tea merchants and involved the Cadbury of chocolate fame, sadly did not survive a takeover by Fitch Lovell in 1964 as it simply merged it into the Key Markets chain in 1973. The stores had moved from vast Victorian premises further along Corporation St into new, smaller premises as part of Birmingham's vast '60s reconstruction.
Barrow's had high standards of publicity and packaging - this fine cardboard tea box (printed by Robinson's of Bristol) includes some great typography of a 'tea chest stencil' style, and the logo designed by Reynolds Stone. This, for Chungalla fine Ceylon Tea, also includes the 'Ceylon Tea lion' motif as used by the Ceylon Tea Board at the time, and was one of a range of similar cartons for the various tea ranges.
Barrow's of Birmingham : Pure Chungalla Ceylon Tea packaging, c1960 : logo designed by Reynolds Stone
What a lovely memory of Barrow's, the Birmingham grocers whose Corporation Street store was a childhood favourite of mine! The long established concern, whose origins dated back to 1824 as tea merchants and involved the Cadbury of chocolate fame, sadly did not survive a takeover by Fitch Lovell in 1964 as it simply merged it into the Key Markets chain in 1973. The stores had moved from vast Victorian premises further along Corporation St into new, smaller premises as part of Birmingham's vast '60s reconstruction.
Barrow's had high standards of publicity and packaging - this fine cardboard tea box (printed by Robinson's of Bristol) includes some great typography of a 'tea chest stencil' style, and the logo designed by Reynolds Stone. This, for Chungalla fine Ceylon Tea, also includes the 'Ceylon Tea lion' motif as used by the Ceylon Tea Board at the time, and was one of a range of similar cartons for the various tea ranges.