Return For Reuse
I have a memory of my dad smoking a pipe. There was a pipe rack on the wall with his favourites clipped on.
He only ever smoked StBruno tobacco which came in a block (like chocolate) in a can. It is an English brand, from the Liverpool area where we came from.
Dad would shave it finely off the block on the edge of a wooden table in the kitchen, a habit that irritated my Mum. The requirement to decoke his pipes was also a messy business.
In the 60s, my Dad was diagosed with a serious stomach ulcer, and half of his stomach went into the medical waste container, but he then lived to relatively healthy old age, where smoking was just a memory, as obviously the fear of God had been given to him over the ulcer and smoking.
He couldn't part with his last tin though, and used it to stash some old photos in, and I discovered them after he passed away.
I wonder if StBruno really wants their tin back to reuse.
St Bruno pipe tobacco was first marketed by Thomas Ogden in 1896. Over 30 years earlier, in 1860, he opened the first of many tobacconists' shops in Park Lane.
Ogdens first factory was opened in St James's Street in 1870. St Bruno was introduced in 1896 and St Julien in 1898. By the end of the century there were six small factories and a snuff mill in Cornwallis Street.
John Barber says:
Although the history books serve us well with dates and events, the origin of the name St Bruno appears to have been lost in the mists of time. The following theory is my own, based on my researches.
Bruno is a common German name (it means brown) and there have been a number of Brunos canonised in the history of the church. The most notable St Bruno was born in Cologne in 1030 and died in southern Italy in 1101.
In 1084 Bruno and six others requested of the Bishop of Grenoble that they be allowed to lead an ascetic and solitary life. He directed them to Chartreuse, a mountainous spot near Grenoble in south-eastern France. This small community was later to become the foundation of the Carthusian Order which has since been attributed to St Bruno.
His followers obtained papal leave in 1514 to celebrate his saint's day on October 6.
In 1150 Henna de Massey, third Baron of Dunham, bequeathed land on the Wirral to the Benedictine monks. On this land they built Birkenheod Priory. Although the order was dissolved in 1536, the ruins are still there and possibly visible from the other side of the Mersey at the time when the Ogdens were establishing their tobacconist shops. The crossing at that point is still sometimes referred to as the Monks Ferry.
This Benedictine order would have followed the principle of austerity that reached out and influenced many others in the 11th century. The Carthusian Order which St Bruno founded was established on well known Benedictine lines.
The Benedictine connection with Liverpool may well have been known to Ogden's as they peered across the Mersey waiting for cargo ships to dock. St Bruno would have been an appropriate name to capitalise on this local association.
Not to be refilled with other TOBACCO
Sentimental theme
Return For Reuse
I have a memory of my dad smoking a pipe. There was a pipe rack on the wall with his favourites clipped on.
He only ever smoked StBruno tobacco which came in a block (like chocolate) in a can. It is an English brand, from the Liverpool area where we came from.
Dad would shave it finely off the block on the edge of a wooden table in the kitchen, a habit that irritated my Mum. The requirement to decoke his pipes was also a messy business.
In the 60s, my Dad was diagosed with a serious stomach ulcer, and half of his stomach went into the medical waste container, but he then lived to relatively healthy old age, where smoking was just a memory, as obviously the fear of God had been given to him over the ulcer and smoking.
He couldn't part with his last tin though, and used it to stash some old photos in, and I discovered them after he passed away.
I wonder if StBruno really wants their tin back to reuse.
St Bruno pipe tobacco was first marketed by Thomas Ogden in 1896. Over 30 years earlier, in 1860, he opened the first of many tobacconists' shops in Park Lane.
Ogdens first factory was opened in St James's Street in 1870. St Bruno was introduced in 1896 and St Julien in 1898. By the end of the century there were six small factories and a snuff mill in Cornwallis Street.
John Barber says:
Although the history books serve us well with dates and events, the origin of the name St Bruno appears to have been lost in the mists of time. The following theory is my own, based on my researches.
Bruno is a common German name (it means brown) and there have been a number of Brunos canonised in the history of the church. The most notable St Bruno was born in Cologne in 1030 and died in southern Italy in 1101.
In 1084 Bruno and six others requested of the Bishop of Grenoble that they be allowed to lead an ascetic and solitary life. He directed them to Chartreuse, a mountainous spot near Grenoble in south-eastern France. This small community was later to become the foundation of the Carthusian Order which has since been attributed to St Bruno.
His followers obtained papal leave in 1514 to celebrate his saint's day on October 6.
In 1150 Henna de Massey, third Baron of Dunham, bequeathed land on the Wirral to the Benedictine monks. On this land they built Birkenheod Priory. Although the order was dissolved in 1536, the ruins are still there and possibly visible from the other side of the Mersey at the time when the Ogdens were establishing their tobacconist shops. The crossing at that point is still sometimes referred to as the Monks Ferry.
This Benedictine order would have followed the principle of austerity that reached out and influenced many others in the 11th century. The Carthusian Order which St Bruno founded was established on well known Benedictine lines.
The Benedictine connection with Liverpool may well have been known to Ogden's as they peered across the Mersey waiting for cargo ships to dock. St Bruno would have been an appropriate name to capitalise on this local association.
Not to be refilled with other TOBACCO
Sentimental theme