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96 jobs to go as last match factor shuts

... final matchmaking factory in Britain is to close by tgg end of the year with the loss of 96 jobs, it announced toaay. The Bryant & May plant at Garston in Liverpool ogened in 1922 ?gglbecame the company’s last remaining factory in this country in It broduced ...

Published: Friday 14 January 1994
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 324 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

The lights

... match factory was closing its doors for the final time today - forced out of business by cheap foreign competition. The Bryant and May factfry in lGsm;ton, Ijvg%rd pool, emplo over people at ly;d peak, but closes with 124 redundancies to end 72 years of ...

Published: Thursday 22 December 1994
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Kiwis launch twin title assault

... Skogland, who eliminated last %ear's beaten finalist Cecil Bransky on Wednesday, was facing the world’s N’d. 1 David Bryant. “Bryant may have had to struggle a little in his opening game, but he is a tremendous competitor and this will be the toushest game ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

MRS. E. M. BRYANT

... MRS. E. M. BRYANT Following a service, interment took place at St Lawrence Church, Bovingdon of Mrs. Emma May Bryant, of Water Lane, Bovingdon, who died at the St. Paul's Wing of Hemel Hempstead Hospital on Sunday, aged 88. ...

FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

... idenly May mend a 20th 1979 broken hear My heart su roke the day v Your loving wife Anne. xx X BALDWIN, William died Ma BRYANT, Emma (May). In loving memory of a dear r.other, who §|9d M-+ 12th. 1985 Forever inour thoughts. — Danand Peggy BRYANT, Emma ...

Striking success

... Owen, of Last of the Summer Wine fame, it recreates the story of the first women’s strike, that of the matchgirls’ at the Bryant and May factory in Bow. Under the direction of Mrs Pam Hicks and Mr John Ratcliffe, 50 of the senior students totally immersed ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1988
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Profit on matches

... Profit on matches After G. F. Cope’s March 24 comments on England’s Glory matches, 1 would add that Bryant and May Ltd. have cut their Swan Vestas to 65 from the former average of 92 Sometimes, more often than not, it’s the reverse, 56; that means one ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1971
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

P ¢ Tears as flame burns out at last match facto

... last match factory has closed its doors for the final time — forced out of business by cheap foreign competition. The Bryant and May factory in Garston, Liverpool, employed over 800 people at its peak, but closes with 124 redundancies to end 72 years ...

Published: Friday 23 December 1994
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 549 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A 23-YEAR-old unemployed Hemel Hempstead man used a stolen cheque to buy an Austin 1300 he saw advertised in a

... Mr. Ronald Bryant on May 9, 1985. He was sentenced to 120 hours community service. Inspector John Patterson told the court that the defendent had seen the advertisement in the window of Martins Newsagents and had gone around to Mr. Bryant’s home to look ...

Land should be used

... for small factory units or hous- ing.” he said. Of the sites Mr Patten histed. the biggest is the 72.4 acre so called Bryant and May site in Three Cherry Trees Lane. which in policy documents ilssued by Hert- fordshire County Council and Dacorum Borough ...

In court for pitch and toss

... Journal reported: “We have seen a Pair of shoes made from human skin, and ghastly as 1t may seem we we are bound to say thef' Fossess many excelent qualities.” BRYANT and May, the match company, had an unusual advertisement. The company pointed out that much ...

- Engagements Deaths In Memoriam In Memoriam SWINDIN—RADFORD. —Mr and HOLLAND. — Maud Florence, aged HOWE, ..

... recent sad loss DAVIES, John. —ln loving mem- and Victor, BRYANT, Emma May. — The ory of a dear husband, father and MORLEY, John. —We do not need family of the late Mrs. Bryant wish grandad, died May 21st 1980. The a special day to bring you to our to thank ...