To Have & To HoldOur attachment with the paper bag

Initially collected and compiled as part of the Preston Polytechnic ephemera archive and housed in the Library, these once ubiquitous giveaways now provide us with a rare an timely insight into our relative recent consumer past.

Ranging from the early 70’s to the late 80’s the collection’s breadth and depth range from the local corner shop to the high street department store,this is a reflection of a more innocent design era.An era of the logo type rather than the brand, the filo fax as opposed to the mobile, the fax machine instead of the internet and a time when the word virtual had not yet become a reality.

This book is an attempt to celebrate these small insignificant pieces of paper and also to act as a permanent record.

We hope you enjoy your visual trip down memory lane.

Introduction

Fortnum & Mason Fortnum & Mason was founded in London in1707 and is highly recognised internationally for its quality goods and as an iconic British symbol. Fortnum’s reputation was built on supplying quality food, and saw rapid growth throughout the Victorian era.

A venture into the US in the 1930s ended in failure, with the company’s flagship store on Madison Avenue closing almost as soon as it opened. Though Fortnum’s developed into a department store, it continues to focus on stocking a variety of exotic, speciality food.

Fortnum & Mason is famed for its loose-leaf tea and its world-renowned luxury picnic hampers, which the store first distributed to Victorian High Society for events such as the Henley Regatta and Ascot Races.

HabitatFounded in London in 1964, the first Habitat store was opened in Fulham Road. This store became the Habitat template, with its wooden-slatted ceilings and spotlights creating a feeling of space and focusing attention on the quality of the products.

The business expanded quickly throughout the UKin the 60s then expanding internationally with the first overseas store opening in 1973 in Paris. Habitat also published a catalogue that showed a range of products together in and around there surroundings.

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High Street ShopsJames Galt & Co. Ltd. has been established for over 175 years. James Galt himself was born at Stewarton in Ayrshire and set up as an educational stockist in Manchester in 1836. In the 1850s the company expanded into printing and publishing

and in 1957 the company moved from Manchester to Cheadle in Cheshire. In 1961 the Galt Toys division was formed. Heals started out as a bed-making firm in 1810, they have been designing and making quality furniture ever since. This tradition lives on.

Heal’s continues to work with the designers of the future and offer home furnishings that represent the best in contemporary design.

Charity ShopsOxfam opened their first charity shop in 1948. Most of their stock still comes from public. Oxfam is the largest retailer of second-hand books in Europe, selling around 12 million per year.

The original Oxford Committee for Famine Relief was a group of concerned citizens such as Canon Theodore Richard Milford, Professor Gilbert Murray and his wife Mary, Cecil Jackson-Cole

The Committee met in the Old Library of University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, for the first time in 1942, and its aim was to relieve famine in Greece.

Fruit MarketsFruit bags have always been the same throughout the years an will never change. Using the consist style of beautiful type and hand drawn images make the fruit bag one of the iconic ephemera symbols, local markets are irreplaceable by any supermarket.

Margaret Knight was the originator of the square bottomed paper bags. After doing thousands of trial bags on a wooden machine, she had an iron model produced in Boston. However, before she could place the patent application, she found a man named Charles Annan who

had studied her machine while visiting the factory was attempting to a patent machine suspiciously similar to her own. Annan claimed a woman could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities of the machine.

Sick bagsCommonly provided to passengers on board airplanes and boats in the event of motion sickness. The plastic-lined airsickness bag was created by inventor Gilmore Schjeldahl for Northwest Orient Airlines in 1949. Previously bags had been made from waxed paper or card.

Modern bags are still mainly made from plastic-lined paper, but large significant proportion are now made completely from plastic. In 2004, Virgin Atlantic issued a limited edition set of half a million bags in collaboration with designer Oz Dean had conceived and run an online gallery of sick bags since

2000 under the project “Design for Chunks”. This challenged designers to illustrate a usually dull medium of the motion sick bag, opposed to t-shirts which were the standard challenges at the time.

Museum Gift ShopsThe Queen’s Gallery is a public art gallery located at Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection those works owned by the Queen on a rotating basis, about 450 works are on display at any one time.

The gallery is located at the west front of the Palace, on the site of a chapel bombed during the Second World War, and first opened in 1962. Over the following 37 years it received 5 million visitors, until it closed in 1999 for restoration out by John Simpson.

In 2002 the work was complete, and on May 21 the Gallery was reopened by the Queen to coincide with her Golden Jubilee. The extension added more than triple the size of the building. It is open to the public on a daily basis.

HeritageThe company was founded by John Wesley Hillard in 1885 in the West Yorkshire town of Cleckheaton. The first shop was opened in Lion Chambers there and shortly after 1900 there were 20 shops operating as Lion Stores. By 1951 there were over 70 stores and by 1968 it had warehouse size stores in Wakefield and York.

In 1970 the trade name Lion Stores was dropped in favour of Hillards and in 1972 the Company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange. Peter Hartley, a grandson of the founder, became Executive Chairman in 1983 and in May 1987, following a hostile bid, the business was acquired by Tesco for £220m.

Food ShopsBewley’s Limited is an Irish company, established in 1840, that produces tea and coffee for sale around the world. The company is owned by Campbell Bewley Group Ltd. Bewley’s is the largest importer, roaster and supplier of fresh coffee in Ireland and was the first coffee company to import fairtrade-certified coffee into Ireland in the 1990s.

The centrepiece of the café is still today the six magnificent stained glass windows commissioned from the renowned artist Harry Clarke who completed them just prior to his death in 1931. Ernest Bewley undertook a complete refurbishment of thebuilding, drawing inspiration from the great European cafes of Paris and Vienna.

NewsagentsLavells Newsagents was founded in 1924 as ‘Lavells Chocolatiers’, a private company operating a small group of High Street outlets in central London. Lavells successfully survived the war years in spite of the difficulty of rationing.

In 1948 it became acquired by Callard & Bowser, who in turn were acquired by Arthur Guinness & Company.In 1987, sixty seven of the largest Martin and Lavells stores were sold to rival retailer John Menzie.

Book ShopsBookstores may be either part of a chain, or local independent bookstores.Bookstores can range in size offering from several hundred to several hundred thousands of titles. They may be brick-and-mortar stores or internet only stores or a combination of both. Sizes for the larger campus that focuses on bookstores

exceed half a million titles.Bookstores often sell other printed matter besides books, such as newspapers, magazines and maps; additional product lines may vary enormously, particularly among independent bookstores. Colleges and universities often have their own student bookstore onproviding course textbooks

and scholarly books, although some on-campus bookstores are owned by large chains such as WHSmith or Waterstone’s in the United Kingdom, or Barnes & Noble College Booksellers in the United States, which is a private firm controlled by the chair of Barnes & Noble.

ConfectionersSince June 1847, five generations of the Booths family have led E.H. Booth & Co. Ltd, from its humble beginnings, with just onesmall shop, to the present day where the company proudly boasts no fewer than 26 modern food stores.

Tea dealer Edwin Henry Booth, then aged 19 years, opened The China House in Blackpool 160 years ago, having borrowed £80 in goods from the Preston grocer who had taught him his trade. Just three months later he repaid the debt and

made a profit of £50. Edwin Booth’s philosophy was simple. Sell the best goods available, in attractive stores, staffed with first class assistants.

A philosophy which remains to this day

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