Category Archives: Yorkshire Business and Money
Comic Postcards in Holmfirth
Holmfirth was the birthplace of Bamforth & Co Ltd and the saucy seaside postcard. The beginnings date back to 1860’s when a family of painters and decorators started to supply painted backgrounds for laternslide shows and subsequently the lanternslides themselves. … Continue reading
Fanny Adams Bitter Sweet
Did the proprietors of this shop in Halifax know the story of the original Fanny Adams? ‘Lest we forget’ here are some of the gruesome details. Eight-year-old Fanny Adams was brutally murdered and dismembered in August 1867. The head, eyes … Continue reading
Greetings Cards a Yorkshire Industry Making Millions
What is in the water in Yorkshire that makes us the center of the UK greeting card industry? Unfortunately old companies like W.N. Sharpe’s of Bradford have been gobbled up long ago by American giant Hallmark but the operation still … Continue reading
Yorkshire Water Slime Busters
Biological warfare weapons in the form of trillions of bacteria designed to eat away at the post Christmas, Yorkshire grease mountain are being released in to a drain near you…… Continue reading
Elastoplast, Cods Liver and Nivea
T J Smith opened a chemist shop in Hull in 1856 as a 30 year old member of the newly formed British Pharmaceutical Society. An early product was the Dark brown, fishy smelling Cod Liver Oil made from Hull fish … Continue reading
Filey Butlin’s Holiday Camp
Our True Intent is all for Your Delight: The John Hinde Butlin’s Photographs Billy Butlin built his third Butlins Holiday camp at Filey starting just before the war in 1939. A special deal was struck when Clacton, Skegness and Filey … Continue reading
KP Nuts – Peanuts from 1853
KP salted Peanuts can be dated back to 1853 in Rotherham and a firm called Kenyon Son & Craven. At the beginning of the 20th century the company had factories in Hull and Rotherham making jams, pickles and sweets. … Continue reading
Harry Ramsden’s Fish & Chip History
Caught in Whitby, fried at Guiseley and eaten out of newspaper our Yorkshire fish and chips, mushy peas and all were part of our staple diet. The real Harry Ramsden’s of our youth is no more, no longer a chandeliered temple, … Continue reading
Cat and Mouse Inventions
Yorkshire is full of inventive and innovative characters and none more so than the Inventors and Entrepreneurs of the Little Nipper mouse trap and Cats Eyes. James Henry Atkinson was born in Leeds (1849-1942) filed applications for patents on several … Continue reading
Buy a Bit of Yorkshire
The Yorkshire Mafia Conference returns to The Royal Armouries for 2013 as ‘Buy Yorkshire’. This is said to be ‘the best B2B conference and exhibition in the North of England’. Yorkshire’s National Conference 2013 will be pushing the boundaries a … Continue reading