Yes daughter of John, sister of Chris. Involved with helping Chris move the company forward.
Video: Gawith & Hogarth Factory - Making Rope/Twists
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Yes daughter of John, sister of Chris. Involved with helping Chris move the company forward.
Thanks for sharing, this is great. Love seeing the old machinery.
Yes, welcome! I live in Idaho now but lived and worked in Kendal for years. I hope all the future plans for the company work out and keep the tradition of Kendal tobacco alive.
What I thought was interesting was seeing the part where they cut the twist into lengths and wrapped it in wax paper. When I started smoking you purchased your twist exactly the same way but wrapped in silver foil paper with the packaged sealed with a sticky label exactly as in the film. To this day I use a waxed U.S. Post Office envelope folded in the same manner to carry my twist about if I haven't pre-sliced it so it doesn't get dry or contaminated with Lakeland essence from my baccy flap which normally now has either Grasmere Flake or Warrior Plug. The coils of Black Rope which used to be sold by the long gone Smiths Snuff on Charing Cross Road and Inderwicks of Carnaby Street had a wooden spike through them and were called 'Bee Hives' as they resembled the old rope woven bee hives. I don't remember the weight by they would cut off a length and put it on the scales and sell it to you in any amount you wished to buy.
That why the black twists are so shiny. Its rather strange that the olive oil doesn't impact the taste but it does explain why they remain pliable long after brown twist has dried out.
Welcome, Gawith & Hoggarth and Samuel Gawith are my favorite flakes.
I can taste the oil. I find it singularly unpleasant, but to each his own. What I do find remarkable is that the product doesn't feel greasy at all; you wouldn't know that it was covered in oil. I suppose the baking processes burns it all off.
I don't know really. It doesn't taste too bad to me but then I am notorious for my bad taste when it comes to tobacco. I think you can even buy the stuff pre-shredded and I have often wondered if it tastes the same but I have never felt compelled to buy the stuff.
I prefer brown ropes myself even though they're stronger. I get the motor oil thing from black.
That was the best twenty four minutes I’ve spent this month. Thank you for posting that.
I don't have any videos but I did find these photographs from a tobacconist who visited Gawith during the 1920's.
Spinning twist:
The store presses of Kendal Twist?:
Here a link to the original website where I found them. It's an interesting little read.
Tobacco Pics 1926
www.davenapier.co.uk
That’s brilliant, smudgers! Thanks for posting those.
I just love seeing old photos and videos from the factories.
I just love seeing old photos and videos from the factories.