Mustard

Dear friend B. and I had a day in Norwich, so of course we had to visit the wonderful Royal Arcade and while there we popped into 'The Mustard Shop'. 
In  1814 Jeremiah Colman, a flour miller, took over a mustard manufacturing business based at Stoke Holy Cross, four miles south of Norwich. In 1823 Jeremiah and his adopted nephew James established J & J Colman which flourished. Best known for mustard, the company made flour, starch, laundry blue and cornflour. 
James’ son Jeremiah James Colman later took over the company which moved to its present location at Carrow, Norwich. J. J. Colman was a visionary, and his ideas on employment and social welfare were years ahead of his time. He built a subsidised school for his employee’s children almost twenty years before parliament made any form of education compulsory and employed Philippa Flowerday, one of the very first industrial nurses, to help sick employees. 
The Carrow site expanded and by the 1880s 2,200 people worked there and another 4,000 earned their living directly through the company.