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Pink Pickle Factory E & T Pink
E & T Pink, wholesale confectioners, Italian warehousemen, pickle, marmalade and jam manufacturers, candied peel, spice and canned goods merchants.
EDWARD PINK was born 27 Nov 1827, and died 19 Jul 1910 in Kent, England. He married CAROLINE CHILDS 1851. She was born in Essex, England, and died 1880.
Edward Pink started a Jam & Pickle Factory named Edward Pink and Sons.........
The Pinks factory was situated in Staple Street, which is adjacent to West St., in Bermondsey, London. The firm described themselves as wholesale confectioners, pickle, marmalade and jam makers, dry-salters and producers of canned fish.
They opened in the early 1880s and closed around 1925. The factory was demolished in 1935.
The Post Office Directory of 1912 shows:
E & T Pink, wholesale confectioners, Italian warehousemen, pickle, marmalade and jam manufacturers, candied peel, spice and canned goods merchants.
Staple Street and St. George's House, 6 & 8, Eastcheap.
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E & T Pink was bought by Crosse and Blackwell around 1920.
In the late 1800's Edward bought land in Kent & Maldon, the land was mainly orchards. This area was to become his home Kingsdown.
On the 1881 census was living at Portobello House, Kingsdown in Dartford, Kent. Year 2000 - this land is now the racing circuit Brands Hatch.
Apparently all jams made at Edward Pink & Sons contained Apple.
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