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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.

Lincolnshire Canners

From Graces Guide

of Boston.

Makers of Lin-Can.

1931 'Boston’s three fruit and vegetable canning factories, operated by Messrs J. and J. Beaulah, Ltd., Lincolnshire Products, Ltd., and Lincolnshire Canners, Ltd., are all making rapid strides and have plans for future developments by which Boston will become one of the great canning centres of England. [1]

1951 'A director of Lincolnshire Canners' King's Lynn branch Mr. Robert Wingate Francis, third son of Mr. A. Francis, Langrick Grange, was married at Christchurch, Harrogate, on Thursday, to Miss Jean Russel Peat, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Peat, of 15, Beech Grove. Harrogate, Yorks.'[2]

1963 Subsidiary of Willer and Riley (1910)[3]

1965 Director was A. J. Francis.[4]

1967 Part of the Grocery Division of Cerebos Ltd[5]

1968 The West Lynn, Norfolk, cannery was sold to British Sales Ltd, subsidiary of Del Monte Corporation[6]


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Sources of Information

  1. Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Saturday 28 February 1931
  2. <Stamford Mercury - Friday 16 November 1951
  3. The Times Mar. 20, 1963
  4. Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Friday 29 January 1965
  5. The Times May 6, 1968
  6. The Times May 7, 1968