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A set of cards included free with Brooke Bond PG Tips Tea and Tea
Bags. The album to stick the cards in was obtainable free from
grocers when you bought ¾lb. of PG Tips tea or you could send 6½p
postage to Brooke Bond OXO Ltd. |
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Nigel's Webspace - Galleries of English and Scottish Football Cards - 1965/66 to 1979/80
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The Brooke Bond Company was formed in 1869, and
continued until 1968 when it merged with the Liebig
Company to form Brooke Bond OXO. In 1988 Brooke Bond OXO
merged with Bachelors to form Brooke Bond Foods. The
company is now part of the Unilever Bestfoods UK group
(information from
http://www.brookebond.co.uk/about/heritage.asp).
Brooke Bond issued picture cards in packets of tea from
1954 to 1999, during which time it issued 55 sets in
Britain. |