Sir Thomas Pink

A brief history

E & T Pink’s Jam & Pickle Factory was founded in the late 1880s in Bermondsey, South London. The firm originally supplied; pickles, jams, confectionary, Italian goods, candied peels and spices. Whilst my Great-Grandfather was at the helm, it became a household name and had a contract to supply Pink’s Plum Jam to the troops during the Great War. Pink's was said to be the largest manufacturer of marmalade in the world; records show that during the year of 1897 they produced 3,400 tons of marmalade (requiring 1,950 tons of oranges & 1,800 tons of sugar)!

This was an era when a large part of the production process would still have been by hand. I spent my childhood at my father’s docks in Tooley Street, in the warehouses originally used by Pink's to dock and store all the goods required for their products. It was growing up with this history that gave us the idea to found a firm based on the same principles as E & T Pink's: to offer produce of the same quality and purity that would have been available before high levels of pesticide use and intensive farming set in.