Ewbanks
of Pontefract, maker of liquorice, manufacturing confectioners.
See Robert Ewbank
1810 Founded by Thomas Firth as Firth Confectioners and was Pontefract's second liquorice factory, making Pontefract cakes.
The business changed hands first to David Longstaffe
Became the partnership of Robert Ewbank and W. F. Horsell
1887 The company moved to the larger Eagle Liquorice Works
1892 Partnership dissolved. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, William Richard Horsfall and Robert Ewbank, carrying on business as Liquorice Cake Manufacturers, at the Eagle Works, Pontefract, in the county of York, under the style or firm of Horsfall and Ewbank, has been dissolved, by mutual consent, as and from the 30th day of September, 1892. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Robert Ewbank...'[1]
1904 Fire at Liquorice factory belonging to Robert Ewbank.[2]
1960 Acquired by J. A. and P. Holland[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:4 October 1892 Issue:26331 Page:5592
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 07 December 1904
- ↑ The Times, December 22, 1960