These Pictures were provided by Joe Gibbons. Joe's Father-in-Law, who died in 1996, was a tobacconist for many years in Ashington, Northumberland. His shop had been established by his father in 1902 and he inherited the shop later in the 1950's. Joe found these pictures in an envelope with the photo titles typed on the outside, together with the original invitation letter to Mr Docherty and the permit to enter the Factory in Bedminster, Bristol which are also shown below. |
| 1. Sorting and Cutting tobacco for mixture |
| 2. Sorting and extracting the mid-rib from Virginia tobacco for cigarette making |
| 3. Cutting tobacco for cigarettes |
| 4. Cigarette machine producing 30,000 cigarettes per hour |
| 5. A corner of the machine room |
| 6.Cigarette packing (each 'girl' packs 20,000 a day) |
| 7. Spinning Kendal Twist tobacco |
| 8. Store presses of Kendal Twist Tobacco |
| 9. Making Kendal Brown Snuff, process one |
| 10. Making Kendal Brown snuff, process two. |
Letter of invitation and permit for Mr Docherty to visit Wills in 1926 |
