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Mighty in strength and endurance..been doin ebay long?
'Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes'.
..and celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the invention of the teabag.
The result was an instant success with American tea drinkers.
..."A Handbag!?".."No !!! No!! No!" .."It's a Tea Bag!" .. "Six Actually"
Thomas Twinings Recreated 1706 Blend
MIGHTY IN STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE
A Recreated Sample of Thomas Twining's 1706 Blend
Here, as you can see they are parked up on our piano and on Auntie Madge's oak table. Just remember that some of these photos are of the real thing.
They are not toys, they are an authentic recreation of an historic Twinings Tea Blend, so they are not suitable for children to play about with.
.5cm depth x 6.5cm square dry weight 3gram
A good brew of tea is essential for heroic adventures.
..and just WHAT! .. might you ask is so interesting about 1706, apart from the flavour of a particularly fine tea, that is..
Mmm.. WELL. Glad you asked that.. because.. In 1706 Thomas Twinings set up as a tea merchant in London, England.
The 1706 blend samples we have are named after the year that Twinings was founded. The 1706 Blend is a Strong Refined Gold Full Flavour Tea. By the liveliness and full flavour of his 1706 blend of Afican, Indian and Ceylon teas, Thomas Twining established a tradition which has endured.
The other thing was .. umm - Great Britain - 1706 - that is.. The Union. The Union flag.
In 1706 Queen Anne of England 1665-1714 set up a commission to draw up a treaty for union between England and Scotland.
The resultant Act guaranteed freedom of trade, religious practices, and law making for Scotland and decreed that the two countries be united as Great Britain under one parliment and one flag. It became law in 1706.
Well they'd have the brew for it then. In 1706 that is. The 1706 blend.
.... zooooooooom .. Meanwhile in 1910.
Captain Scott and his team reached the South Pole in January 1912. Captain Scott's Strong Blend 1910 was originally supplied in tea chests to the British Antarctic 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition. Amazingly those original chests are still in existence today in both the Discovery Hut, at Hut Point and Scott's Hut, at Cape Evan's. .. We have some of that too .. so try to hang on.
Of course when you see these small samples in their paper parcels you're not seeing them 'live game on - in action', as it were. Tea is only partly about yer visuals; mostly it's about smell and taste ..and temperature, and we all know what we need for that.. Correct..
.. Hot Hot Water.. for yer brewings.
Mighty in Strength and Endurance. When you see these mighty steaming hot traction engines in their fancy state, in their finery - as it were - with knobs on, and a roof, you are not seeing them in their original working-order state. What you are seeing might be a tad misleading, because you are catching them in their part-time working-in-retirement state. These meaty beasties were made for work, not lakin' about on fairgrounds or for showing-off in fields at ice-cream eatin' regattas and the like. Afore that big 1914-18 War business changed things a lot, and before he got seriously into tea, our Walt had just such an engine (not from new, mind) to haul Rossendale stone at his quarry at Back Cown in Bacup, in Lancashire. O Yes! A huge source of pride - much status might be reflected upon one - from owning a steam tractor.
Our Walter could make a good brew of tea. Hardly surprising really because well before the inspiration for that first tea bag came to Mr Sullivan in New York in 1808, our Walt was supplying and brewing loose Black Tea Proper from his Store in Lancashire.
The Recreated Historic 1706 Twinings Tea Samples we have for sale here, are, as you see, in a totally new career state and are as shown.
John Fowlers 1920 tractor, Kitchener, was refurbished and re-named The Iron Maiden to become the 'Star' of the 1962 film of that name.
Both of these beauties rely on the transforming power of boiling hot water to bring them to life.
No doubt you'll have a kettle at home to boil yer water for your brew; and you'll know it's not always easy peasy to make that perfect brew.
For a good brew a kettle is essential.
A Showman's Road Locomotive, or Showman's Engine is a steam-powered, road-going locomotive designed to provide power and transport for a travelling fair. Similar to other road-going traction engines. Showman's engines were normally distinguished by the addition of a full length canopy, a dynamo mounted in front of the chimney, and brightly coloured paintwork. They were used not only to move heavy goods and equipment but were important to generate electricity to illuminate various fairground rides. Motion of the rides was normally provided by belt drive from the locomotive's flywheel. Now.. lets not forget that other obvious major advantage obtained, in the brewing department, from a Steam Traction Engine.
John did just know how to make a perfect brew. John Fowler was born in Wiltshire in 1826, the third son of a wealthy Quaker corn merchant. He was experienced in farming methods and became a pioneer of mechanized agriculture. In 1847 he joined a Middlesborough engineering firm manufacturing such items as locomotives and Colliery Winding Equipment. A visit to Ireland, aroused his Quaker conscience and changed his life. He witnessed the famine which followed the failure of two years of potato crops. He returned to England and gave up his job, determined to mechanise land drainage by the use of steam power. The result was his Mole Drainage Plough which was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and built for him by Ransomes. In 1858 Fowler was awarded the 500 prize offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England for his balance plough. Sets of ploughing tackle were built for him by several contractors until he set up on his own in Leeds in 1860.
John Fowler & Co., of Leeds, England, was one of many manufacturers of steam traction engines. These vehicles became popular in the latter half of the 19th Century, and are still seen operating at steam fairs and similar events. Originally such traction engines were made for serious work. The traction engine The Iron Maiden was built in September 1920 as a class R3 road locomotive for heavy haulage work and saw many years of service on the Isle of Portland, hauling blocks of stone from the quarries to the harbour. She returned to Fowler's works for conversion into a showman's engine, which entailed the addition of a dynamo bracket in front of the chimney and a full-length canopy, among other things. Once converted she emerged as Kitchener and was based in Alfreton, Derbyshire and undertook fairground work, until a second retirement, when she was bought for preservation in 1952.
After ten quiet years of genteel retirement, in 1960, while living with Steam Roller 'Princess Caroline' at Field House in Turvey, Bedfordshire with their mate, Ford main dealer John Crawley, she was again refurbished. Retubed at Gowers Yard in Elstow Road and repainted at Phypers in Bedford she was once more re-named The Iron Maiden to star in the 1962 film of that name. Now no longer 'resting', both of these big starlets are now on the road again, kept busy, signing autographs and generally being gorgeous at such hot celebrity steam events as the Great Piping Hot Dorset Steam Fair.
Our tea bag models you see here on piano and on Auntie Madge's oak table are some of the several traditional square samples we have available. Some of our round samples were originally produced following the recent urgent appeal to save Captain Scott's expedition huts and to help protect them for future generations. It seems that the huts are in need of extensive repair due to the harshness of almost a 100 Antarctic winters. They are after all, shed monuments to a great age of heroic British Exploration.
Drink to me only with thine Eyes.. The teabag models at Piano and on Auntie's oak table in June 2008.
Great Britain. The United Kingdom. The Union flag.
The original John Fowler & Co 1920 class 3 road locomotive, modified as Kitchener, preserved as The Iron Maiden visits Great Dorset Steam Fair in 2006.
A tinwork model of the Iron Maiden on Auntie's oak table
A drawing of the original Showman's Engine Rocket dated 1829.
The original Rocket much modified, now preserved in the Science Museum, London, 2004.
The 1979 full scale replica Rocket at the National Railway Museum, York, 1979.
A tinwork model of a 1962 Massey-Ferguson MF 35X Multi-power Diesel Tractor on Auntie's table, in March 2008.
A tinwork replica Rocket parked on one o' Rus's mahogany palettes, perched on uncle Jim's flame mahogany bureau, March, 2008.
A photo of our Walter - Mighty in Strength and Endurance - outside of his first store in Bacup Road in Stacksteads, Rossendale, April 1900.
The tin work replica John Fowler & Co 1914 Showman's Road Locomotive on our burr walnut piano, April 2008.
A photo of our Nigel's splendid new model of our Walter when he was in the East Lancashire Regiment 1888-96, on our Madges oak table, April 2008.
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Happy 100th Birthyear Dear Tea Bag.
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..and ..as you enjoy a brew of the created traditional 1706 Blend and you experience its unique flavour, you might reflect upon all the big doings of 1706, of the 20th century and of Captain Scott and his team and their heroic antipodean adventures .. you might think too about Walter Goodenough 1864-1962, our Walt, Mighty in Strength and Endurance and the enormous changes he must have witnessed in his long and active life. Think about tea. You might begin to wonder about the unique and special flavours of other fine teas. Well.. might you ask.. What, might you ask, was that flavour of our Walt's perpetual flavourite? and.. The Captain Scott Blend of 1910?
Wonder no more.... It's not all gone. We do have some of that 1916 too... auskommen mit..
MUDGORNING YOUNG SIR, AH YES THE 1706 . A REFINED GOLD TEA . TIS A TEA THE STRONG TRADITIONAL TASTING TEA YES . TIS A BLEND OF AFRICAN INDIAN CEYLON TEAS. TWILL GIVE THEE THE FULL FLAVOUR . REGARDS, RUS...
MUDGORNING YOUNG , AH YES 1706. GOLD . TIS TEA TASTING TEA YES. TIS CEYLON . TWILL . Regards, RUS ... MUDGORNING JONGERENKAART SIR, AH JA DE 1706. Een GERAFFINEERDE GOLD TEA. TIS EEN STERKE TEA DE TRADITIONELE PROEVERIJ TEA YES. TIS een mix van Afrikaanse INDISCHE CEYLON theesoorten. Keper GEVEN U HET VOLLEDIGE smaak. Regards, RUS ... MUDGORNING YOUNG SIR, AH JA DIE 1706. Eine raffinierte GOLD Tee. TIS Tee traditionell starken DER KOSTPROBE TEA YES. TIS Eine Mischung aus AFRIKANISCHEN INDISCHER CEYLON Tees. TWILL dir den vollen Geschmack. WAS, RUS ... MUDGORNING YOUNG SIR, AH OUI LA 1706. A REFINED OR TEA. TEA TIS A LA DEGUSTATION DE THE STRONG TRADITIONNELS YES. Un m lange de TIS AFRICAN INDIAN CEYLON TEAS. TWILL THEE DONNER LA AR ME. CE QUI CONCERNE, RUS ...
