IRONMONGER Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 We used to have tea delivered by a company called Wells Empson it came in paper packages containing one pound of tea for six shillings and eight pence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janmajor Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Ingram's tea merchants - Bob Ingram was my grandfathers brother (Walter Ingram - who died when I was 6). I have loads of photographs of all the (Sheffield) Ingram family, dating back to before 1900. I have also an old letter from Bob Ingram to his mother, brother and sister dating back to September 1939, about the government wanting to take over his business property and having to make do with only 10 employees. I understand that they also had boats - can anyone tell me about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geotom Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Well there's a name from the past, Ingram's Tea, my sister and myself used to deliver their tea in the Grimesthorpe area in the 60's. I think it was 64/65 that we stopped delivering, often wondered what happened to the company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Forrest Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 My great-grandfather founded Ingram’s tea. Someone above talks about their grandmother being the partner of his son. It’s fascinating as I live in Canada and the partner you are talking about was my grandfather. Someone else mentions having all sorts of Ingram family photos which fascinates me since my mum, Margaret Ingram’s passing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Forrest Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 On 10/07/2015 at 12:18, janmajor said: Ingram's tea merchants - Bob Ingram was my grandfathers brother (Walter Ingram - who died when I was 6). I have loads of photographs of all the (Sheffield) Ingram family, dating back to before 1900. I have also an old letter from Bob Ingram to his mother, brother and sister dating back to September 1939, about the government wanting to take over his business property and having to make do with only 10 employees. I understand that they also had boats - can anyone tell me about this? On 18/10/2012 at 08:51, Dinah Glover said: Hello there. Interesting to see chat about Ingrams Tea, since my grandmother's partner late in life was the son of Ingrams Tea merchants, Bill Ingram. He has now long since passed away in the very early 1970's. His is an intersting story as he was cut off from the family. That was my grandad. His daughter Margaret was my mum. Louise Forrest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denis anson Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 my sister mavis worked there in the 1950s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Scott Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Miriam Ingram, who was a daughter of Robert Ingram lived down the road from my 2x great-grandparents and my great-grandmother on Barnsley Road. She was a great friend of my great-grandmother and they were very close for years until Miriam's death in 1979. Miriam appears in a few family photos and when she died she left my great-grandparents a flat in Bridlington. Miriam used to have used teabags hanging up in the airing cupboard which she would then reuse to make more tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard1946 Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 Ingrams Tea, when a youngster age 15 in 1961, I delivered Ingrams by bicycle to households in Norton. All in our tight social group, girls and boys, have at least two jobs. We work in garages and cafés, we work open air car hand-wash, farmlands, and girls work in day nurseries ... and one of the group has the neatest job of all— she worked Saturdays at the coolest coffee bar in town .. the Sidewalk, Chapel Walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Richard1946 said: Ingrams Tea, when a youngster age 15 in 1961, I delivered Ingrams by bicycle to households in Norton. All in our tight social group, girls and boys, have at least two jobs. We work in garages and cafés, we work open air car hand-wash, farmlands, and girls work in day nurseries ... and one of the group has the neatest job of all— she worked Saturdays at the coolest coffee bar in town .. the Sidewalk, Chapel Walk. The hotist coffee bar was the El Mambo , The customers of the two were like chalk and cheese . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockers rule Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 3 hours ago, Richard1946 said: Ingrams Tea, when a youngster age 15 in 1961, I delivered Ingrams by bicycle to households in Norton. All in our tight social group, girls and boys, have at least two jobs. We work in garages and cafés, we work open air car hand-wash, farmlands, and girls work in day nurseries ... and one of the group has the neatest job of all— she worked Saturdays at the coolest coffee bar in town .. the Sidewalk, Chapel Walk. Here we go Richard. Plantation House sounds rather grand. Plantation House 259 Ecclesall Road Might have been grand back in the day. Keep safe . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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