Hirst, L, & Son Ltd

Sectors:

  • Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Tobacco products distribution
  • Distribution - retailing Tobacco products retailing

Notes:

Traced origins to the retail tobacconist business of John Holiday, established 1815. Subsequently acquired by Kershaw Hirst and c1880s renamed L Hirst & Son. By 1900 a wholesale business only. Subsequently established branches at York, Scarborough and Bradford and in 1926 reorganised as Great Northern Tobacco Co Ltd.

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