British match-making Arms will jointly celebrate in April the 100th anniversary of the first match being struck by John Walker, a Stockton-on-Tees (Durham) chemist. It is supposed that this was an accidental discovery, but it was patented in 1827. The present incumbent of Walker's original chemist's business, John Price, appeared in the Bankruptcy Court at Stockton recently, and meutioned that his assets included Walker's sales books and pestles, for which a British matchmaking firm hes offered £3OO.
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Shannon News, 12 April 1927, Page 3
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