#Tea merchant

[scotianostra]

May 10th 1850 Thomas Lipton, founder of the Lipton's grocery chain was born in Glasgow.

While his father worked in a succession of poorly paid jobs, Tommy Lipton’s siblings all died in infancy, leaving him as the family’s only son.

Tommy had to leave school aged 13, because his parents needed an extra income to make ends meet. He also attended night school at the Gorbals Youth School. In 1864, Thomas signed up as a cabin boy on a steamer running between Glasgow and Belfast and seems to have been taken with crew-members' stories about the United States, in 1865, Thomas used his savings to pay for a passage to New York, he spent the next five years there, travelling across the country. During this time he held many different jobs, including work at a tobacco plantation in Virginia; as an accountant at a rice plantation in South Carolina; as a door-to-door salesman in New Orleans; as a farmhand in New Jersey; and as a grocery assistant in New York.

Thomas returned to Glasgow in 1870. After spending some time helping his parents at their shop, he established one of his own, Lipton's Market, at 101 Stobcross Street in the Anderston area of the city. This proved highly successful and Lipton went on to establish a chain of shops, first in Glasgow and then across Scotland, before expanding to cover the whole of the UK over the next ten years. Meanwhile, the demand for tea was increasing among the middle classes and in 1888, by which time Lipton had 300 stores, he set out to bypass the traditional lines of supply for tea by investing directly in tea plantations. The Lipton Tea brand he established offered good quality for low prices and proved hugely popular, expanding the market for tea to all parts of society and establishing it as the national drink of choice.

Lipton was a big fan of promotional stunts. When his first 20,000 tea chests arrived in Glasgow he put on a party, complete with a brass band and bagpipe parade. In 1893 Sir Thomas Lipton officially established the Thomas J Lipton Company, a tea packaging company based in Hoboken, New Jersey . He felt that tea should be a drink for everyone, not just the wealthy , so he strived to make packaging and shipping less expensive.

Instead of arriving in crates, Sir Thomas packaged his loose tea in multiple weight options. The tea was also standardised, so Lipton customers knew exactly what to expect.

Lipton developed a passion for yachting, between 1899 and 1930 Lipton challenged the American holders of the America's Cup through the Royal Ulster Yacht Club five times with yachts he named Shamrock through Shamrock V. He never won the cup, but he was awarded a special trophy as "the best of all losers". This may sound double-edged, but one effect of his efforts to win the cup was to make his name well known across the United States, and his tea very popular there.

Although Lipton, through his yachting, became a friend of royalty, as a self-made man he still had difficulty breaking into some corners of the highly stratified British society of the day. He was, for example, only accepted as a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron shortly before his death.

As well as boats, Lipton will also be remembered for his love of football, and The Thomas Lipton Trophy, This was an association football competition that took place twice, in Turin, Italy, in 1909 and 1911. It is regarded by some as The First World Cup, or certainly a precursor to it, I'm sorry to have to tell you the winners in 2009 were from England, West Auckland Town Football Club from County Durham also defended and won the trophy in 1911.

Lipton died at his home in north London in 1931. He left most of his wealth to his native city of Glasgow. His yachting trophies are now on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Sir Thomas Lipton was buried alongside his parents and siblings in Glasgow's Southern Necropolis.

Liptons continues today as part of the multinational Unilever brands, they teas and other beverages still bear his name and are a world known brand, not bad for a young lad born in a Glasgow Tenement to Irish immigrants.

[esprei]

butler volo here to serve you! ✨

[cokalee]

OC vintage ads!

[angleshades]

The fine details...

This is perfection. Someone trying to be high class would hold their teacup 'properly'.

GIF @emmysrossm

[frozenartscapes]

Hubert and Ferdinand’s A+ support but from Edelgard and Dorothea’s perspectives while they hide in a nearby bush like the good wingmen that they are

[ah0yh0y]

finished vol 2 of The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya today

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the character relationship THE ACCURACY OF THE MUSLIM REP THE MAIN ROMANCE like tis SO REALLLL

and the mc's faith is front and center and its like not just an aside IT GUIDES WHAT HE DOES

LIKE IT TACKLES ORIENTALISM SO WELL

i started crying in the middle of study my guys its OS GOOD

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ANYWAY READ

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FEAST YOUR EYES AND YOUR SOUL UPON IT

[teainspoons]

Sloane Fine Tea Merchants’ Bold Breakfast | Tea Review

[imanes]

gym day today was…. well…. I forgot to eat so 🤡 I was like wow why is cycling so difficult today?? what a dumb bitch god. I’m never doing that again, gave up on the treadmill to go eat a protein bar I had the foresight to pack. Thank god it was a light workout day too I was just doing some mobility exercises to improve my balance so no lifting whew 😮‍💨 also side note I never have any drink except water before a workout because it makes me feel sick so guess my surprise when I realised that most gym goers drink energy drinks during their workout??? I’d throw up on the smith machine if that were me but anyway

[welcometoteyvat]

traveler: did xianyun become yet another no mora adeptus

[bhaalswn-arch]

It's weird-- I am so used to like, Skyrim merchants following me even when I go upstairs. These merchants though? They give no fucks.

[scotianostra]

On May 10th 1850 Thomas Lipton, founder of the Lipton's grocery chain was born in Glasgow.

Before the big supermarkets took over we lhad ots of wee ones, every street had a Liptons, or a Galbraith even a Templetons!

Liptons was one of the originals started by a guy from Glasgow who built an empire and the tea brand still bares his name.

Born in a tenement flat in Crown Street, the Gorbals, Liptons parents were Irish and had left the Emerald Isle during the potato famine, the smallholding their family had farmed on for generations no longer viable they settled in Glasgow. 'Tommy' Lipton was educated at St. Andrew's Parish School close to Glasgow Green and by the time Tommy was 12 his parents had a shop in the street they lived selling ham, butter, and eggs. It was with the aim of supplementing his parents' limited income that Thomas Lipton left school at the age of thirteen and found employment as a printer's errand boy, and later as a shirtcutter. He also enrolled at a night school, the Gorbals Youth's School, during this period. He then found work as a cabin boy a steamer running between Glasgow and Belfast and was captivated by life aboard the ship and the stories told by sailors who had traveled to the US After being let go by the steamer company, Lipton quickly used the wages he had saved to purchase passage on a ship bound for the U.S., where he would spend five years working and traveling all over the country.

Back in Scotland on his 21st birthday, In 1871 Lipton opened his firstown shop at 101 Stobcross Street in Glasgow. In the heart of industrial Glasgow, full of smoke and fog, the shop was said to be so brightly lit that at night it became a beacon in the street. Goods were stacked in the American fashion, not for the convenience of the proprietors, but with the purpose of catching the customers’ attention. Lipton used another selling technique learned from his time in the States and from his Mother's shop.

When his parents had opened their small shop, Mrs. Lipton, rather than deal with middlemen at the markets, dealt directly with the farmers of her homeland. Lipton followed this example. He bought his bacon, eggs, butter and other produce directly from Irish farmers. The firm traded as a supermarket until 1982 when another group bought the shops that were to become Presto’s, the decision was made as they wanted to solely concentrate on the Tea business which it does to this day, in 2009 Lipton received a Corporate Green Globe Award for its work with the Rainforest Alliance.

As well as the tea and the shops but Lipton was also a keen sailor, he holds a place in the America’s Cup heart as being the most reliably consistent and deftly congenial loser. Five times he challenged for the Cup, five times being defeated. Despite his best laid plans and momentous effort to win the cup, the tea magnate simply didn’t cut the mustard. Nonetheless, he did have a penchant for beautiful boats. His last challenger, Shamrock V, never really stood a chance of winning the race but it did win marks for pure beauty. His well-publicised efforts to win the cup, which earned him a specially designed cup for “the best of all losers”, and also made his tea famous in the United States.

During the first world war Thomas Lipton helped organisations of medical volunteers. He placed his yachts at the disposal of the Red Cross, the Scottish Women's Hospitals Committee of Dr. Elsie Inglis, the Serbian Supporting Fund, etc., for the transport of medical volunteers (doctors and nurses) and medical supplies. Not content with just allowing his boats to be used he also took a keen interest in the work of Elsie Inglis and the womans hospital, visiting Serbia, where he insisted on humble lodgings and was renowned for his humility and modesty. .In addition to visiting many hospitals, where he encouraged doctors, nurses and soldiers, he found time to attend traditional fairs and to take a part in blackberry gathering and fishing. Sir Thomas Lipton was proclaimed an honorary citizen of the city of Niš.

Lipton even made the cover of Time magazine during 1924. He was knighted in 1901. Sir Thomas Lipton passed away on 2nd October 1931 in London and is buried alongside his parents and siblings in Glasgow's Southern Necropolis, his grave, like the man himself, a humble, simple understated affair, he bequeathed the majority of his fortune to his native city of Glasgow, including his yachting trophies, which are now on display at the Kelvingrove Gallery.

[wastelanddonut]

I come to the dtblr commune to sell some delicious tea from the faraway land of zeldatwt

It's Hollywood drama and live action hate flavored with a few extra leaves of Tom Holland

Now I will depart, until the winds guides us together once more 🚶‍♂️

[cokalee]

Always lost, never home

[sylvariance]

Catri had a strange encounter with a fascinating cryptid during the fight for Tarir recently, and a guildie informed me that they actually have a Tumblr presence, so I can share and tag appropriately! GG at Tarir, have fun in Tyria! @moth-tea-merchant

(Many apologies for buzzing around like a crystal gnat trying to get the right angle for a screenshot, but it was worth it I think 😅)

[sleepingjasminetea]

On the Country of Serseh

So, the capital of Serseh lays at the foot of, and indeed, within the dormant volcano known as "Serara's Shield" along the river that flows through the deserts composing much of Serseh.

At the mouth of the Great River, where the lifeblood of the desert spills into the sea, there is a beautiful delta, where much of the commercial growth of cotton and flax happens for export and trade. This is also where many foreign caravans stop and sell their wares for domestic caravans to take deeper into the desert towards the capitol. This leads to a great trade city on the fringes of the delta.

throughout the deserts there are "Merchant Halls", great outposts, each a day's journey from each other, where caravans may rest and resupply as needed. These outposts are under the protection of the Goddess of Journeys and Merchants, and she will not tolerate violence within her walls.

Serseh is predominantly inhabited by semi nomadic merchant and hunter clans each with their own "Elders Village" where those unfit for the seasonal journeys stay, guarded from the wilds by soldiers and crafting or tending trade items.

Serseh is also home to the assassins guild

[mirdaniaa]

so many books talk about offa like he was The Greatest Mercian King and to an extent i suppose much of his reign is significant to the Mercian Supremacy and its decline but NOT enough books talk about the bitchy drama he had with charlemagne and i think that's a shame!!!!!