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John Walker and Co (of London)

From Graces Guide
1953.

of Farringdon House, Warwick Lane, London, EC4, Publishers and Wholesale Manufacturing Stationers

1880 Established by John Walker, James MacDonald (d. 1891) and William Barringer (d. 1890).

1893 Incorporated as a Limited Company

1901 "WALKER'S DIARIES. We have received samples of the series of admirable Diaries, issued by Messrs. John Walker and Co., Ltd., of ... House. E.C. They are in various bindings, letterings, and arrangement, and are all sizes, from miniature to the large Morocco ..."[1]

1914 Directors: John Walker, John Walker (jun.), Percy Barringer, F. Wallace Whitlock and Godfrey Power (Secretary ).

Business: Publishers of Atlases, Diaries, &c. Manufacturing Stationers, Account Books, Memo Books, &c. Originators of the "Backloop" Notebooks, "Walker's" Loose Leaf Books; "Walker's" Reform Refill Books; Letterettes, &c., also producers of "Society" brands of Note Papers, "Anchor" pens and "Anchor" Office Sundries. Makers of Index Letter Files, &c.

1922 Listed Exhibitor. Manufacturers of Diaries, Loose Leaf Pocket and Account Books; Stationery; Letter Files; Albums; Ladies' Handbags; and Fancy Leather Goods. (Stand Nos. K.107 and K.129).[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 28 November 1901
  2. 1922 British Industries Fair Page 82