Thomas Fryer and Co

1800s Dr. Edmund Smith (sic) of Bolton produced a special lozenge that he gave to his patients to cure various ailments.

Due to an increase in demand, Smith began to produce and sell his Cough No More Lozenge.

According to one source, Dr. Edward Smith took over a bankrupt drug factory, formerly Thomas Fryer and Co, in Nelson, and began to manufacture his lozenges which became Victory V Lozenges. His younger brother William Carruthers Smith became the manager of the factory.

'Thomas Fryer was born in Barrowford in 1841 and in 1864 he opened a sweetshop. By 1871 the census showed him to have employed four men and one boy in his Colne Road shop. Fryer’s reputation for sweet-making grew and after he formed the company, Fryer & Co, the Victory Works were opened in Nelson in 1890.'

1882 Partnership dissolved: 'Thomas Fryer, Kellet Ashton, and William Carruthers Smith, trading as Thomas Fryer and Co., Nelson-lane, manufacturing confectioners, as regard T. Fryer and K. Ashton, who retire.'

1882 Dissolution of the Partnership between Thomas Fryer, Kellet Ashton, and William Carruthers Smith, as manufacturing Confectioners, at Nelson, in the county of Lancaster, under the style or firm of Thomas Fryer and Co. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said William Carruthers Smith, who will for the future carry on the said business on his own account, under the same style or firm of Thomas Fryer and Co

1893 Thomas Fryer and Co., confectioners, Chapel-street, Nelson.

1901 William Carruthers Smith trading as Thomas Fryer and Co, manufacturing confectioners, Victory Gum, Nelson.

Became Fryer and Co (Nelson)

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Sources of Information

• Trademarked. A History of Well-Known Brands - from Aertex to Wright's Coal Tar by David Newton. Pub: Sutton Publishing 2008 ISBN 978-0-7509-4590-5