** TINS of TASTE MUSEUM ** within the NationalBreadMuseum.org
England - How one tin led to another!
Within the first week of arriving in England for the next 6 years (July 1982), I can still see myself at a British vendor's table outside the military base BX, buying my first two tins in England: a red telephone booth & a round red post box - both soon-to-be very common sightings throughout the country. I was so thrilled to be able to live in England that when I went back home (to the United States), I wanted to still be surrounded in years to come with the feeling of living there. Thus began the "tin collection" because wherever we went, I seemed to see a tin with history attached to it (& whispering that I should be a caretaker of it for the preservation of history). That was the important aspect . . . learning about history because now we could actually BE in the spot where so many "history book" events of hundreds, and some thousands of years, actually happened. A lot of my "need to bake sweets" for the family became subsided (with more time to hunt around😄🚶♀️🚗) because we had so many treats from all the tins, & my husband had enough tea to keep him going for years thereafter! DMK - Founder
NOTE: Following the 3-column Index below, there are 2 short resource sections on tin collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (800 English Biscuit Tins), and the Huntley & Palmer Biscuit Tin collection at the Reading Museum in the city of Reading, England.
England's Company - Tin Index
This will be an ongoing project for quite some time into the future. There are hundreds of commemorative and short-run editions of tins from England -- most deep in storage at this time. As the exhibits of tins are created on website pages, the company or subject will be switched to "bold" print, and the underline will designate that a click will link you onto the page for viewing! (This does not apply to SECTION HEADINGS.) Enjoy - 😊
TEAS
TEA COMPANIES:
Ahmad
Bigelow Tea
Brummel's Tea
Castle Tea Co. Tea
Charbrew Teas
Charles Keller Tea
English Tea Shop
Hedley's Tea
Lord Buckley's
Max Q UK Lmt. Teas
New English Teas
Sri Lanka for UK Teas
St. James Tea
Tetley Tea
Twining Tea
Wedgewood Tea
Williamson & Magor Teas
A - H (Subjects)
A
All is Calm / Keep Calm
Admiral Nelson
Alice in Wonderland
B
Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit)
Bentley
Big Ben
BISCUIT COMPANIES:
Ashton & Hayes
Farmhouse Biscuits
Fox's Biscuits
Grandma Wild's
Harrod's
Infinity Brands
Max Q - UK
Mr. Stanley's
Peak, Frean, & Co. London
Whittard
& Unknowns
B - Continues:
Briston's (candy?)
Brock (?) Candies
Brown & Haley Belgium Creams (?)
Buckingham Palace
Burberry's
Burton's
C
Cadbury
Callard & Bowser
Charles Dickens
Churchill
Clipper Ships
Colman's Mustard
Cornish
Cutty Sark
D
Darville's of Windsor
Double Decker Bus
E
Elizabeth & Phillip
Evelyn & Crabtree
F
Farrah's
Fortnum & Mason
G
Golden Syrup (Lyles)
H
Harrod's
Harry & Meghan
Horse Guard
House of Parliament
Huntley, Boorne, & Stevens
Huntley and Palmer
I - Y (Subjects)
I
Ian Logan Tins
J
Jackson's
Jacob's Irish Biscuits
Jessop & Jones – Saville Row
L
London Bridge
M
Molly Green Tins
Mrs. Beetons
Mrs. Bridges
N
National Gallery
O
Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
P
Paddington Bear
Phone Box
Post (Mail) Box
Prince Albert
Punch & Judy
Q
Quality Street
R
Riley's
ROYALTY:
Elizabeth & Phillip
Harry & Meghan
Prince Albert
The Queen
William & Kate
S
Shakespeare
Silver Crane Tins
T
Thatched Cottage
The Queen
Tiny Tim
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
U
Union Jack
W
Westminster Cathedral
William & Kate
Windsor Castle
Y
Yoemen Guard
York
The Victoria & Albert Museum
NOTE OF INFORMATION:
The Victoria & Albert Museum has over 800 English Biscuits Tins, & all are online for viewing! A fabulous site!
The intro page: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/biscuit-tins-a-bite-sized-history/#slideshow=562394146&slide=0
The last line of the article is a link to "See more biscuit tins from our collection." That link will take you to:
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?page=1&page_size=15&q=biscuit+tins At the bottom of that page, you can click on "15" or "50" as to how many tins you want per page for your viewing. If you're then taking any notes regarding a tin you'd like to come back to, etc., look at the page number (e.g., 1&page) in the URL. Since there is no bar in which to enter a specific page, (let's say you want to go back to page 8 or 12), you can just enter that page # in the URL address to quickly get you there (... 8&page ... or ... 12&page ...).
Also, if near the bottom of the above page you don't see a link to "Collections: Metalworks" (& a button: Explore), then click here which takes you to: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/metalwork This is the museum's overall index page of everything in their vast collections which has to do with an aspect of metal in one way or another.
At the bottom of this page is "Features." Here is a link to "Biscuit tins - a bite-sized history; Novelty biscuit tins in all shapes & sizes." This takes you back to the intro "page" (the 1st URL above).
Tins of Huntley & Palmers Biscuits
at Reading Museum - U.K.
NOTE OF INFORMATION:
The above website link will take you to the main page of the Reading Museum that has 10 pictorial links regarding their holdings of the tins of the company which began it all . . . that is the packaging of biscuits (cookies in American English) in the mid-1800s so they could be mailed and not end up in crumbs. People traveled & bought the Huntley & Palmers biscuits during their "holiday" (vacation in American English) & wanted to continue being able to buy them. "How to ship/mail them" so they'd still be like you just bought them from the bakery became the beginning of the "packaging in tin" containers business in the 1830s. Then through the following decades came the exquisite designs with colored printing on tin, first by a transfer process, followed by lithography.
When you begin with the first photo link at the bottom of the above website page, each page will have a continuing link to the next page so you needn't go back to the first page for the additional nine photo links. But when you get to the final page of these links & you get to "Details of many more biscuits tins
can be found on the Reading Museum
Collections website," & when you click on that link, you're lost! With lots of searching, still on their website, I found this interesting history link regarding the Huntley & Palmers tins:
https://collections.readingmuseum.org.uk/index.asp?page=topic&mwsquery={collection}={topic}&filename=REDMG&hitsStart=41
Then it's at the bottom of the above page where there's this link that begins the multiple pages to view 1,063 tins!
VIEW 1,063 HUNTLEY & PALMERS TINS AT THIS WEBSITE PAGE:
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These are some additional websites
https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/huntley-palmer/
The above website is an additional great resource of company history info, especially for anyone doing research on Huntley & Palmers!
https://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/articles/huntley-palmers-tins-a-legacy-of-biscuits-and-timeless-collectables/
This is another article about the tin history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntley_%26_Palmers
The Wikipedia version has a few dozen additional resources.
Or scroll back up to link to individual British tin sites (if they're in bold & underlined), OR to the MAIN MENU in the upper right