AINTREE,LIVERPOOL. NELSON'S JAM

[purlin]

'I used to live in Maghull so quite different'   thats where the posh people lived isnt it Pat!

[suttking]

Hi
I have not heard of a connection between Nelsons Jam and Melling pottery. My grandfather wrote a booklet on the history of the pottery, this has since been revised with more detail by in conjunction with research from Scotland where the founders of the pottery were based. They had strong links with Hartleys jam and produced the distinctive "lighthouse" jam pots. They also produced numerous other products until the factory was destroyed by fire in 1928. If you have a particular interest in the pottery please contact me
Paul. 

[Pat38]

Hello Purlin

We lived on the ALT ESTATE-It wasn't posh.

Pat

'I used to live in Maghull so quite different'   thats where the posh people lived isnt it Pat!

[deangaryvictoria]

Nelson Preserving Company was established in 1921 by Tom porter.

[Pat38]

Hello

My Great Aunt was working at Nelson's Jam Factory in Aintree in 1898.

I had a look on Google and found this item in the British Free Library Online from the Liverpool Daily Post  in 2002 that says Nelson's was closing down and it also said that the company has been making preserves on Merseyside for more than a century.

Pat
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Nelson Preserving Company was established in 1921 by Tom porter.

[IMBER]

Hi
 revised with more detail by in conjunction with research from Scotland
Paul. 

Hi Paul

That's me! I'm still keeping my eye open for new angles on Midland Pottery and thought it likely they might have made jars for Nelsons.

Denis

[Pat38]

Hello Denis

Have you seen this website?  http://www.towpathtreks.co.uk/llc/bootle_melling.html

Scroll down to MELLING and you will see this:- "Melling had its own pottery industry and stone jars were made here and taken along the canal to Hartleys Jam Works at Aintree. Scottish potters came to Melling to work. The potery works were destroyed by fire in 1928."

Pat
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Hi
 revised with more detail by in conjunction with research from Scotland
Paul. 

Hi Paul

That's me! I'm still keeping my eye open for new angles on Midland Pottery and thought it likely they might have made jars for Nelsons.

Denis

[dollysearch]

It's lovely to read all your anecdotes of my home town.
My Grandmother used to work at Hartley's and for a 'holiday' she and a group of workmates would volunteer to go to Kent to do some fruit picking for the jam.
My Mum also worked at Jacobs she used to bring home huge cube shaped tins of broken, mixed  biscuits which included yellow and pink cream wafers or fig biscuits and sometimes cream crackers. I think they only charged 2s 6d for them!
Yes Scouseboy, jam on crackers tastes divine.

Shirley

[IMBER]

Have you seen this website?  http://www.towpathtreks.co.uk/llc/bootle_melling.html

Scroll down to MELLING and you will see this:- "Melling had its own pottery industry and stone jars were made here and taken along the canal to Hartleys Jam Works at Aintree. Scottish potters came to Melling to work. The potery works were destroyed by fire in 1928

Thanks for link Pat.  Great photographs.