A coloured reproduction of John Walkers shop reproduced on a 1960 calendar for Edward Appleby Ltd. 
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A coloured reproduction of John Walkers shop reproduced on a 1960 calendar for Edward Appleby Ltd.
In 1959, nearing the end of my six year apprenticeship as a compositor with Edward Appleby Ltd. I helped produce the calendar on which this illustration appeared.It was printed on both sides using a combination of offset litho and hot-metal letterpress. The illustration in this picture was hand coloured and printed with its caption “Two celebrated shops in Stockton High Street” and shows Thomas Jennett”s printers shop along side John Walker”s chemist shop, which he rented from Jennett whose home was accessed through the door between the two shops. Jennett had been the apprentice of the town”s first printer Robert Christopher, who had later taken him into partnership, trading as Christopher and Jennett and then Thomas Jennett”s on the death of Christopher. The Appleby family becoming the commercial successors to this business. The prime purpose of the calendar was to celebrate the centenary of the death of John Walker, inventor of the friction match, 1859 – 1959. On the reverse of the calendar was a short history of John Walker by the then “Chairman of the Stockton Branch of the Historical Association”, John W. Wardell. It also states on the reverse of this calendar that the ledgers of Thomas Jennett, which I”d love to study, were at that time in the hands of Edward Appleby”s. Anyone know where they are now?