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B. S. Bacon (Games)

From Graces Guide

of 23 Wilson Street, London, EC2. Works: Llanrwst, Denbighshire, North Wales.

1947 Open new factory with twenty people to start work and will produce table tennis equipment.[1]

1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Indoor Games, Darts, Dartboards, Quoit-boards, Draughts, Table Tennis Sets, Shove Ha'penny Boards, Skipping Ropes, Wooden Toys, Forts, Garages, Airports, Farmsteads, Cots, Beds, Blackboards and Easels, Ironing Boards, Skittles, Garden Games. (Olympia, 2nd Floor, Stand No. J.2228) [2]

1953 Manufacturers of High Class Wooden Toys, Dolls’ Houses, Dolls’ Cots and Beds, Garages, Forts, Etc. Skipping Ropes, Ball-Bearing and Toy. Table Tennis Sets, Etc.

1959 Between 50 and 60 lines of wooden toys, all bearing the Conway Valley trade mark showing Conway Castle and Telford's Bridge are being made. they include dolls-houses, farmsteads, forts, garages and desks.[3]

1962 Roy Bacon is the MD and fighting having a union in the factory.[4]

1968 B. S. Bacon (Games), Ltd., Jones Terrace, Llanrwst. Fifteen employed making wooden toys.[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. North Wales Weekly News - Thursday 17 April 1947
  2. 1947 British Industries Fair p20
  3. North Wales Weekly News - Thursday 29 October 1959
  4. North Wales Weekly News - Thursday 29 November 1962
  5. North Wales Weekly News - Thursday 10 October 1968