Lipton Collection

Shamrock V races
The first appearance in a race by the Shamrock V, Sir Thomas Liptons Americas Cup challenger in 1930. The Shamrock V is seen here in the foreground, alongside Lord Camroses Cambria

Ox-pulled wagon - Lipton Tea Company
Colombo, Sri Lanka - a wagon of the Lipton Ltd. Tea company bearing a mass of wooden tea chests and pulled by a pair of white oxen. Date: circa 1910s

Launch of Shamrock V
The Shamrock V yacht, commissioned by Sir Thomas Lipton to contest the Americas Cup, is launched at Gosport, Hampshire following the naming ceremony by Lady Shaftesbury Date: 14 April 1930

Lipton / Sir Thomas / Vf 01
J Reid Walker wears a ? Homburg hat, wing collar & red tie, black waistcoat & lounging jacket, grey herringbone tweed trousers with turn-ups & a front crease Date: 1909

Page of Victorian advertisements 1896
A page from The Illustrated London News, dated 11 April 1896, showing three advertisements, for Liptons Teas, Beethams Glycerine and Cucumber preparation, and Mappin & Webbs fitted suit cases

Colombo, Sri Lanka - Lipton Ltd. Tea Company - Maddema Mills - note the ox-pulled tea wagons, each individually numbered (see also: 10296761). Date: circa 1905

Thomas Lipton acht, Erin

Sir Thomas Lipton's Steam Yacht Erin, early 1900s

Lipton's tea factory at Pooprassie, Sri Lanka, Victorian period

Lipton's Tea Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lipton Ltd, promoting Lipton's Tea, If you want the best tea, go to the firm that grows it

Sir Thomas Lipton on a yacht
Sir Thomas Lipton (May 1848- October 1931) on board his steam yacht Erin'. Preparing for the Challenger of the America cup on the sailing boat Shamrock II

Scene in Week Street, Maidstone, Kent
Busy street scene - Week Street, Maidstone, Kent. Date: circa 1940s

Women recording votes for the General Election 1955
Women recording the General Election votes, 26 May 1955, in Brixton town hall, London. The 1955 General Election, often described as one of the dullest of the post-war period

King Street, South Shields, Tyne and Wear. circa 1900

Town Hall and shops, Halifax, Yorkshire. circa 1900

Advert for Liptons Teas 1896
An advertisement for Liptons Teas, with an illustration of one of the Lipton Tea-Gardens in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). 1896

Lipton Tea Plantation - Sri Lanka - Bunyan Estate - Pickers. Date: circa 1910s

Kasauli hill station bazaar, Himachal Pradesh, India
Kasauli hill station bazaar (street of shops), Himachal Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1910

Shamrock IV
A diagram illustrating the height of the yacht Shamrock IV, British challenger for the Americas Cup in 1920, owned by Sir Thomas Lipton

Launch of Shamrock III
At Dumbarton, the yacht Shamrock III is launched, supported on pontoons. Owned by Sir Thomas Lipton, the yacht was to be his third challenger for the Americas Cup

Sir Thomas Liptons first shop at 101 Stobcross Street, Glasgow. Date: 1871

Drawing room on Thomas Liptons yacht, Erin
The very comfortable drawing-room of Sir T. Liptons yacht " Erin". Lipton would later sail to Serbia in the " Erin" during the First World War

Lipton Meets Walker
SIR THOMAS JOHNSTONE LIPTON (right), tea millionaire, born in Scotland to Irish parents, seen here meeting Jimmie Walker, the Irish-American Mayor of New York, USA. Date: 1850 - 1931

London Horse Bus
One of Londons horse buses, with adverts for Liptons Tea, Nestles Milk and Hudsons Soap, etc. on it. Photograph taken outside Waterloo Station, changing horses. Date: circa 1920

Liptons Ceylon Estate
Liptons tea estate in Ceylon. Date: 1892

Until we meet again - Music Sheet Cover, Waltz ballad, words by Stanley J. Damerell, music by Tolchard Evans and featured by Sidney Lipton and his Grosvenor House Dance Band

Aerial view, entrance to Victoria Station, London, with cars and buses. circa 1920s

Man and car outside Post Office, John o Groats, Scotland
Man and car outside the Post Office, John o Groats, Scotland. Date: circa 1920s

Horse bus with Liptons Tea advert, London
A horse bus of the London General Omnibus Company Limited, with a Liptons Tea advert, on a route linking Fulham in the west with Bethnal Green in the east. Date: early 20th century

Thomas Lipton launches Shamrock IV, 1914
Sir Thomas Lipton photographed at Gosport in June 1914 after his fourth challenger for the Americas Cup had been christened by the Countess of Shaftesbury and safely launched in Portsmouth harbour

Sir Thomas Lipton (1848 - 1931)
Sir Thomas Lipton, creator of the Lipton tea brand and regular challenger for the Americas Cup. Date: 1930

Shamrock I and Shamrock III
During trials for the 1903 Americas Cup off the New York coast, Shamrock III, the challenger that year, races against the challenger in 1899, Shamrock I

Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (18481931) - Scottish self-made man, merchant, and yachtsman. He created the Lipton tea brand

Action for Libel, Lyons v Lipton, WW1
Notice of an Action for Libel in the High Court of Justice, J Lyons & Co Limited being the plaintiffs, and Lipton Limited as defendants, during the early stages of the First World War

The Challenger, Shamrock III
The 1903 unsuccessful challenger for the Americas Cup, Shamrock III (of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club), owned by Sir Thomas Lipton. Date: 1903

Claude Grahame-White in the front of his Grahame-White Type 10 Charabanc. Sir T. Lipton standing

Shamrock III and Sir Thomas Lipton
The 1903 challenger for the America Cup: Shamrock III, and her owner, Sir Thomas Lipton. Date: 1903

America Cup Yacht Race 1901
The Americas Cup race of 1901 saw Scottish businessman Sir Thomas Lipton as the Challenger with his yacht, Shamrock II of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club (designed by George Lennox Watson)

Coming from Lipton s... Going to Lipton s
An ingenious advertisement designed by Sir Thomas Lipton to attract customers to his shop

Sir Thomas Lipton
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (1848-1931), a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage. He was a self-made man, merchant and yachtsman

O connell Bridge / Dublin
Dublin: O Connell Bridge and the River Liffey

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