Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,345 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Tyne Brand Products

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1914. Herrings in Tomato Sauce.
June 1922. Herrings in Tomato Sauce.

of The Shields Preserving Works, North Shields

1906 Advert. Shields Preserving Works, Brewery Bank, Fish Quay, North Shields.[1]

1919 Mention of G. E. Wilson, managing director. Mentions being in business for 18 years.[2]

1920 Wall on the Walker Place side of the works collapses.[3]

1920 Advert. The Shields Ice and Cold Storage Co Ltd, Shields Preserving Works, Fish Quay.[4]

1923 'Shields Preserving Works was the first fish canning firm in this country to use sealing machinery.' Some details of the process given.[5]

1925 Description of the works. See Visits to Works

1927 Mention of George Wilson of the Shields Preserving Works.[6]


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Sources of Information

  1. Shields Daily News - Wednesday 08 August 1906
  2. Shields Daily News - Thursday 18 December 1919
  3. Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 31 May 1920
  4. Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 24 November 1920
  5. Shields Daily News - Wednesday 06 June 1923
  6. Shields Daily News - Friday 30 December 1927