National Tea Day 2022
To celebrate the event - a few of the old tea packets and 'souvenirs' in my collection. Several of the brands are still with us, notably the then Birmingham based Typhoo - Ty-phoo Tea and, to a small extent in the UK, Horniman's Tea that is now a bigger brand overseas than here.
The organisation that appears most here is the old Co-operative 99 tea that at the time was a wholly Co-Operative production as, for many decades, tea blending and packing was one of the 'joint' English and Scottish CWS activities. Matheson McLaren were a Leith, Edinburgh, based concern who were in business from the early years of the Twentieth Century and, I think, may have still be on the go during the 1970s when we lived in the city.
A couple of the smaller items are promotional 'giveaways' from the '20s and '30s when advertising needle cases and matchbooks were commonly given away at fetes, shows and exhibitions as were the small 'sample tins' also seen here.
National Tea Day 2022
To celebrate the event - a few of the old tea packets and 'souvenirs' in my collection. Several of the brands are still with us, notably the then Birmingham based Typhoo - Ty-phoo Tea and, to a small extent in the UK, Horniman's Tea that is now a bigger brand overseas than here.
The organisation that appears most here is the old Co-operative 99 tea that at the time was a wholly Co-Operative production as, for many decades, tea blending and packing was one of the 'joint' English and Scottish CWS activities. Matheson McLaren were a Leith, Edinburgh, based concern who were in business from the early years of the Twentieth Century and, I think, may have still be on the go during the 1970s when we lived in the city.
A couple of the smaller items are promotional 'giveaways' from the '20s and '30s when advertising needle cases and matchbooks were commonly given away at fetes, shows and exhibitions as were the small 'sample tins' also seen here.