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The fines included 3 d for having an untidy workbench, talking or having dirty feet—many of the workers were bare-footed as shoes were too expensive; 5 d was deducted for being late; and a shilling for having a burnt match on the workbench. The women and girls involved in boxing up the matches had to pay the boys who brought them the frames from the drying ovens, and had to supply their own glue and brushes. One girl who dropped a tray of matches was fined 6 d.
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for three gross of boxes, and the packers got 1s 9d per 100 boxes wrapped up. Those under 14 years of-age received a weekly wage of about 4 s. Most workers were lucky if they took the full amounts home, as a series of fines were levied by the foremen, with the money deducted directly from wages.
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In the 1880s Bryant & May employed nearly 5,000 people, most of them female and Irish, or of Irish descent; by 1895 the figure was 2,000 people, of whom between 1,200 and 1,500 were women and girls. The workers were paid different rates for completing a ten-hour day, depending on the type of work
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In 1850 the company sold 231,000 boxes; by 1855 this had risen to 10.8 million boxes and to 27.9 million boxes in 1860. Market preference in the UK was for the familiar lucifer match, and by 1880 Bryant & May were also producing them. The same year the company began exporting their goods; in 1884
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it is difficult not to feel considerable doubt as to the wisdom of the proposed tax on matches ... will be felt by all classes to whom matches have become a necessity of life. ... this tax which is intended should press on all equally will in fact only be severely felt by the poor which
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Wilkinson Match's shares were acquired by US company Allegheny International from 1978 with Allegheny taking full ownership in 1980. In 1987 Allegheny filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and Swedish Match re-acquired the company. In 1990 Swedish Match sold the Wilkinson Sword business, retaining the
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In 1971 the Northern Ireland factory, Maguire & Patterson closed down following a terrorist attack. The original Bow match factory was closed in 1979, when it still employed 275 people; unlike some of the other match factories little recent investment had taken place. The Bow factory site
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as "beyond doubt of the working classes. They ... were accompanied by men and women of their own class, without any admixture of the usual agitators." The marchers were harassed along the way before their progress was blocked by police at
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On the dexter side a lion guardant Or incensed Proper and over the sinister shoulder a wreath of laver baldricwise also Proper and on the sinister side a swan its wings elevated and addorsed Proper the underside thereof semy of anchors
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Some British match names continue to survive as brands of Swedish Match, but are made outside the UK. Some former shaving products survive, manufactured in Germany and sold under the trade name Wilkinson Sword in
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Vitafruit was a confectionery manufactured by the Bryant & May group in 1988. There were three varieties including tropical fruit flavour (Vitafruit), mint (Vitamint) and a throat soother (Vitasooth).
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boxes of 100 matches each). The next order was for 50 cases; later orders were for 500. This partnership was successful, so the partners decided to merge the firm with a separate company owned by Bryant,
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on the proposal, opined that the tax was "a singularly reactionary proposal" that would affect the poor more heavily. Match-making companies complained about the new levy and arranged a mass-meeting at
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William Bryant and Francis May and survived as an independent concern for over seventy years before undergoing a series of mergers with other matchmakers and later consumer products companies.
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Bryant and May was involved in three of the most divisive industrial episodes of the nineteenth century, the sweating of domestic out-workers, the wage "fines" that led to the
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in order to capture part of the market of the 250 million matches that were used in Britain each day. Its first order was for 10 or 15 cases of 720,000 matches (composed of 50
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described that the police had "by their hard usage of the matchmakers and spectators, converted what was before not an ill-behaved gathering into a resisting, howling mob".
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with the last B & M match factory in the UK. It shuttered in December 1994, and was renovated into today’s 'the Matchworks' (grade 2 listed building) and the Matchbox.
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names. Bryant & May could not compete, so in 1905 it sold a majority 54.5 per cent of its share capital to the (American) Diamond Match Company in return for the
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When Swedish Match acquired Bryant & May the confectionery arm of the business was sold and eventually the new owners stopped production of Vitafruit.
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on Sunday 23 April; 3,000 match workers attended, the majority of whom were from Bryant & May. It was resolved to march on the following day to the
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In 1927 Bryant & May combined with J. John Masters & Co. Ltd (match importers and owners of the Abbey Match Works, Barking, Essex) and the
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Upon a helm with a wreath Or and Gules upon water barry wavy Azure and Argent an ark Gules and rising behind the same a sun in splendour Gold.
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The company rebuilt their Bow factory in 1909-1910, with many modern innovations including two tall towers housing water storage tanks for a
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described that "policemen, strong in their sense of officialism, and bullying in their strength, approached the verge of brutality".
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William Bryant and Francis May to trade in general merchandise. In 1850 the company entered into a relationship with the Swedish
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Bryant & May was involved in three of the most divisive industrial episodes of the nineteenth century: the
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The demonstration comprised mostly girls between the ages of thirteen and twenty, and were described in
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In 1929, the British Match Corporation set up a jointly-owned company with another Quaker company,
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In 1861, at the Fairfield Works, a dilapidated site that had once been used for the manufacture of
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A rate of wages inadequate to the necessities of the workers or disproportionate to the work done.
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Satre, Lowell J. (September 1982). "After the Match Girls' Strike: Bryant and May in the 1890s".
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alongside those of many formerly independent companies once within the Bryant & May group.
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consisted of a number of listed buildings, which have subsequently been converted into the
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Bryant & May variously sold itself to, merged with, or took over rivals. These were:
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In 1861 Bryant relocated the business to a three-acre site, on Fairfield Road, Bow,
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Fifth Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Sweating System
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Fifth Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Sweating System
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match maker S.J. Moreland and Sons, who made and sold matches under the trade name
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of boxes. The workers had to provide glue and string from their own funds.
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Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History
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Competition Commission Reports 1987: Bryant & May and Wilkinson Sword
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Gules semy of flames an Inescutcheon Or thereon four flames also Gules.
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The Shocking History of Phosphorus: A Biography of the Devil's Element
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The insanitary state of the houses in which the work is carried out."
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Swan Vesta matches, originally a brand of the Diamond Match Company
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defined "sweating" as "the evils known by that name are ...:
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A grassy mount with poplar stumps and saplings thereon all Proper.
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closed in the mid-1980s. This was converted into offices in 1989.
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to present a petition. Several thousand match-makers set off from
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would be very wrong and most impolitic at the present moment.
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Competition commission: Bryant & May and Wilkinson Sword
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Sale to, acquisition of, and mergers with other match makers
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bought an existing match factory in the United Kingdom, at
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The match boxes were made through domestic outwork under a
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of domestic out-workers, the wage "fines" that led to the
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For the Bryant and May series of crime mystery books, see
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site which was manufacturing amorphous phosphorus and
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factories in Stratford, Manchester, York and Glasgow.
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London matchgirls strike of 1888
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