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Christopher Thomas and Brothers

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Many parts of the works survive as the Gardiner Haskins Homecentre
View from Old Bread Street

of Broad Plain Soap and Candle Works, Bristol

1743 Company established. [1]

1897 The company was registered on 21 July, to take over the business of a company of the same name, manufacturers of soaps etc. [2]

1912 The company was taken over by Lever Brothers

1914 Soap and candle makers, refiners of edible oils. Specialities: household soaps, candles, Puritan olive oil soap, Fripp's olive oil soap. Employees 120. [3]

1954 The factory closed[4]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The History of Unilever by Charles Wilson. Published 1954 by Cassell and Co
  2. ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  3. ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  4. ↑ 'Bristol at Work' by John Penny, Breedon Books, 2005
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