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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 10h

Plus loads of the usual suspects from PG tips, bubblegum cards, cigarette cards etc. and an interesting tea clock, which in the late 19th and early 20th century were given away if you had collected enough tea coupons, or bought 4lbs of tea (2kg-ish)

The front of the tea clock, it’s got a really cheap German movement Jungens I think.

The back, with ‘Given away with 4lbs of tea’ stencilled on it.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 10h

The site of the warehouse is now Next, the modern store was originally built for C&A c1971. I have a few sets of these.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 10h

A friend sent me this. It’s a little wonder. Lamberts of Norwich was a tea importer, wholesaler and retailer originally established in London Street in 1843, they had a warehouse in Hay Hill too, demolished in the late 1960s. They used to produce collectors cards. This set of cacti is from 1962.

The cover of a lamberts card booklet or Picture card album.

Some lovely drawings of cacti on the cards.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 16h

Don’t use it often, but it’s really not having it for some reason.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 17h

Doesn’t work.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 17h

Not for me no.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 17h

I was imagining him being alive in my use of the world imagine.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine for a second, Keith Floyd being the new Masterchef presenter. That would be good telly.

harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 1d

I think my favourite piece I’ve written for your fine site was on Floyd: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd | The Quietus

We have an odd relationship to food and drink in Britain. We’re good at wallowing in a simpering nationalistic jingoism, a sentimentality that often shuns the very best of what we do – offal; non chai...

thequietus.com

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

False friends or false cognates? I can never remember which is witch.

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Greg Shaw @zenmousegreg.bsky.social · 1d

Lancashire dialect: "shives o' bread" means "slices of bread". From the same "skifa".

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Sort of assume it could be the ON influence round here, but that’s conjecture based on not much beyond density of Norse place names which sort of applies to Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and to a lesser extent Lancashire too.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Same as ‘shiver’ for splinter in the Norfolk dialect.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

You should. I’m just about to accession my 1971/2 league winners silk scarf to them. Signed by the whole team, stuck in a drawer for 50 years.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

They have such an amazing collection. There are many reasons, but mostly one. More on that eventually.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Now made in Portugal and India, the company is still headquartered in the city.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

And now. There is no real boot and shoe industry in Norwich. I think one small maker still exists. The 1980s really was the end. Outsourcing cheap imports killed it. Some of the brands still remain, Start-rite being the notable Norwich one a brand originally created by Southalls…

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

The pressure of technological advancement, and the fact that a sole trader or small family business couldn’t afford, for instance, a skiving machine and could no longer compete and became industrialised as a workforce.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

By the 1930s the Shoe industry in Norwich employed 15,000 folk. Whole families involved, in some cases for generations. Another thing I found interesting was the switch from individual shoemakers in the early to mid-19th century, to mass employment by factories of those same people.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

You search practically any working class family history in Norwich between 1850 and 1960 and you will find the former somewhere. If not that, a clicker, finisher, machinist or rough worker. Same in Northampton too I’d assume.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Well I think it’s interesting.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Been doing a lot of reading on the shoe industry. Interesting fact, a Skiver as in the trade of thinning leather down on seams etc, is from the OE/ON ‘skifa’ ‘to cut or split’. The term skiver to avoid work is from the Middle French ‘esquiver’ to escape.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Spotlight

The hulk of Sovereign House behind boards lit by one work light

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Kinda is.

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 2d

Shine.

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