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    The factory is still there! I'm not sure but I think it may be a listed building. It certainly is a nice piece of architecture! Up to a few years ago there was an advertisement hording just outside which showed a large briar pipe, the bowl of which glowed red embers at night! Always impressed me that did! Also driving past, sometimes you'd get the smell of one of the more aromatic pipe tobaccos...Something like Clan
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    Quote Originally Posted by kevin View Post
    Hi Deb,
    What did your uncle do - I might know him.
    I was there from 1967-1973 but my dad worked there from 1961 until about 1980, when he had to retire from ill health.
    Hi Kev , I'm not sure , His name is Frank Murphy .

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    the BAT factory become luxury apartments??
    I seem to remember it was a bit North of the present Costco site.[/QUOTE]

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    Quote Originally Posted by delzx7r View Post
    The factory is still there! I'm not sure but I think it may be a listed building. It certainly is a nice piece of architecture! Up to a few years ago there was an advertisement hording just outside which showed a large briar pipe, the bowl of which glowed red embers at night! Always impressed me that did! Also driving past, sometimes you'd get the smell of one of the more aromatic pipe tobaccos...Something like Clan
    Yeh,the factory is still there,but the ad' you mentioned was for St.Bruno pipe tobacco,with a giant St.Bernard(?),on the hoarding,along with the glowing pipe!

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    Didn't Ogdens make St. Bruno?

    Excerpt from " A history of Pipe Tobacco "

    " St Bruno was first marketed by Thomas Ogden in 1896. Over 30 years earlier, in 1860, he opened the first of many tobacconists' shops in Park Lane, Liverpool. During Victoria's reign, Liverpool flourished as a port and trading centre. With his retailing venture proving so successful it was perhaps inevitable that Ogden should diversify into manufacturing."
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    Smile The pipe tobacco..

    Quote Originally Posted by delzx7r View Post
    Didn't Ogdens make St. Bruno?

    Excerpt from " A history of Pipe Tobacco "

    " St Bruno was first marketed by Thomas Ogden in 1896. Over 30 years earlier, in 1860, he opened the first of many tobacconists' shops in Park Lane, Liverpool. During Victoria's reign, Liverpool flourished as a port and trading centre. With his retailing venture proving so successful it was perhaps inevitable that Ogden should diversify into manufacturing."
    ...at BAT was made in the basement and was quite a strange place to visit.

    The baccy came in large bales straight from the docks, and it was blended as whole leaves by guys with pitchforks. Lots of flies around and it really stank.
    Think how much a small can of rum flavored tobacco smells, and then imagine that smell multiplied enough to fill a whole room - yuck.

    Luckily I didn't have to go there often when I worked there....

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    Yeh, it was "Ogden's" who made St. Bruno,but not Clan,as you thought! (at least, not at that factory!)

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    Ah I see what you mean! I have no idea who made Clan. It was just the aromatic smell that made me pick on that name because the smell on West Derby Road reminded me of it!
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    Ogdens had their own crown green bowls team and a very well kept green to the rear of the factory. I played against Ogdens for the Coronation Hotel in the early 70s. Didn't win like!
    Hi, do perhaps remember a William Donnelly, packer at Ogdens up to his death in 1972. I beleive he played bowls.

    Any info would be most appreciated.

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    when i was a kid i remember i had an uncle who worked at the nicotine factory, what was that?


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