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Framed Licences for the Retail of Tea, Spirits, Beer, Ale, Cyder, Perry and Tobacco
Image Not Available for Framed Licences for the Retail of Tea, Spirits, Beer, Ale, Cyder, Perry and Tobacco

Framed Licences for the Retail of Tea, Spirits, Beer, Ale, Cyder, Perry and Tobacco

Associated (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Date1818
Object NameLicence
Mediumpaper, card, wood, paint, ink
ClassificationsShopping
Dimensions36.4 x 69.2cm
LocationView by Appointment
Object numberABDMS086561
About MeFour licences dated 6 July 1818 permitting Messrs. William Walker and Sons to retail tea, coffee, chocolate, spirits, beer, ale, cider, perry and tobacco. William Walker and Sons were Wine Merchants, Tea Dealers and General Importers at 52 Union Street, Aberdeen. In 1919 the licences were mounted, framed and displayed in the shop window. A short newspaper article, pasted to the reverse of the original frame, commemorated the event:

"A Century's Business Record", Aberdeen Journal, 14 February 1919

An interesting exhibit has been placed in the shop window of Messrs. William Walker and Sons, wine merchants, tea dealers and general importers, 52 Union Street, Aberdeen. It is a neatly framed panel, containing the four licences granted to the firm a century ago to deal in tea, to retail spirits, the "retail beer, ale, cyder, and perry" licence, and the tobacco licence. The licences, which are somewhat curiously worded, are dated 6th July 1818, and were issued in the 58th year of King George III. It may be mentioned that during these one hundred years there have been four members of the family holding those licences - three of them Alexanders. The original Alexander Walker was succeeded by his brother William from 1827 to 1868, and the next in the business was his son, the well-known late Dean of Guild Alexander Walker, LL.D., the local historian and antiquarian, who held the licences from the last-mentioned date till his death in 1903, when his son, Alexander, obtained and now holds them. Probably no other family in Aberdeen could show such a record as licenceholders.
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