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LIGHTING THE WORLD. PRICE’S CANDLES

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LIGHTING THE WORLD
PRICE’S CANDLES

Speaker: Jon Newman, Head of Lambeth Archives

Monday 20 September, 7.30pm

Morden Library
Morden Civic Centre
London Rd, Morden

PRICE’S CANDLES

Price's Candles started in Vauxhall in 1830, making candles from Sri Lankan coconuts and then concentrated its factory in Battersea. In the 1840s it marketed its candles made with raw products from West Africa as a method that helped undermine the slave trade. In the days before homes were lit with gas and then electricity its candles were used all over the world. It also set up factories to make them across the world. By 1914 it was the largest candle manufacturer in the world, with sidelines in motor and engine oil, soap and glycerine. Its Battersea workforce set up a retail co-operative which was successful for over 50 years.

It would help the organisation of this event if you could indicate by 13 September your intention to attend.
Please email sean.creighton@btopenworld.com.
Thank you.

Part of:
MERTON MULTI-CULTURAL HISTORY GROUP
TALKS PROGRAMME

The next talks in this series are:

18 October - The representation of Black people in portrait paintings
Caz Bressey, Secretary, Black & Asian Studies Association

15 November - Nelson's Black connections
Di Reynolds, Morden Library Manager

For more information see Merton Council website:
www.merton.gov.uk/multiculturalhistory/index.asp

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