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John Longman Bragg founded JL Bragg Biscuit Makers in 1853 in London, England, with premises just off Oxford Street in the fashionable shopping district of Central London.
Harrods’ store records show JL Bragg’s Charcoal Biscuits and Charcoal Powder being sold in store from the late Nineteenth Century onwards, and the photograph on this page, taken in 1902, shows Charcoal Biscuits being advertised as a cure for indigestion.
As a result of increased commodity prices due to the onset of of the First World War, especially of sugar and eggs, JL Bragg introduced a new item to its range of Medicinal Charcoal products; Charcoal Tablets.
This was facilitated by a move to new premises which had the space and the machinery to mass produce JL Bragg’s Charcoal Tablets. The tablet pressing machine used at this time continued to be used until 1980, whilst the biscuit cutting machine was still used to produce biscuits until 1996!
In 1971, JL Bragg moved production operations to Ipswich, where it is now based, and the company has been producing at the current site since 1997.
Other historical events that occurred in the 1850s include:
- The Crimean War took place, including the famous flawed Charge of the Light Brigade, which inspired the Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem of the same name
- Charles Darwin published The Origin of the Species
- Railways began to supplant canals as the primary means of transporting goods
- The first working transatlantic telegraph cable was laid
- There was an Indian mutiny against British rule in the country, which led to the imposition of the British Raj, which continued to exist until 1948
- The second war of Italian independence took place
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