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Blundells' colour works
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Colour manufacturers in Hull
Colour manufactories were established in Hull by the end of the 18th Century, as advertisements in the local newspapers show. Here is one example:
"12 March, 1796, p. 2, Col. 1, 10th adv.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION.
Either altogether or separately.
ALL these new erected BUILDINGS, now used as a COLOUR MANUFACTORY, with the Warehouses, Wharf, Yard, and premises comprising near an acre of Ground, advantageously situated for carrying on any business on the Bank of the River Hull at Wilmington, in the Parish of Sutton, and within a mile of the town of Hull.
Also the Colour Mill, and utensils used in the carrying on the aforesaid manufactory.
For particulars apply to Mr. Martin, Attorney in Hull
Hull, March 11, 1796"
By the mid-19th Century there were twenty four “Paint & Colour Manufacturers and Dealers” listed in the local directory, of which eleven were manufacturers. By the end of the century, thirty nine “Colour, Paint and Varnish Manufacturers” were listed.
Henry Blundell
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Blundell was born in Lincoln in 1789 and came to Hull to serve an apprenticeship with Piercy and Thomas, brushmakers of Church Street (Wincolmlee) Hull, starting in business himself as a brushmaker in 1810, in Hodgson Street, The Groves in East Hull.
In 1811 he entered into partnership, with his brother-in-law William Spence, and the firm became Blundell, Spence & Co. Initially the business was established in The Groves area of Hull but later moved to Wincolmlee, alongside the River Hull, where many of the oil-seed crushing firms were located.
The seed crushing business and premises in The Groves were sold and the oil blowing and refining business transferred to the Britannia Mills, in Church Street, Sculcoates. Later still the business was relocated to the corner of Spring Bank and Beverley Road, where the name “Blundell`s Corner” has survived as the address of Hull local newspaper, the Hull Daily Mail.
Words: Christopher Ketchell
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