Clarnico Fire Brigade Medal

The silk medal riband fitted with mounting bar, that retains it's original hinged pin and clasp fittings, as issued

The Clarnico Fire Brigade - generally accepted and reported on as an extremely well organized force, including it's own prize winning 'Brass Band - was the private Fire Brigade of Clarke, Nickolls & Coombs Ltd - the famous British 'Confectionary' business, and was a for a long time the largest sweet manufacturer in Britiain and across the British Empire.

Established in 1872 as Clarke, Nickolls & Coombs, 'Clarnico's' main product was candied peel, though it soon diversified into making marmalade, jam and then sweets. By the 1900s the company had its own fire brigade, ambulance, a brass band that toured abroad and a 100-strong choral society

In 1890, the company's Hackney Wick?s sweet-making industry was thriving. Clarnico, on Carpenter?s Road, was the largest sweet manufacturer in the country and employed 1,500 people.

The main factory premises were ideally situated for deliveries of sugar on the banks of the River Lee navigation channel, it was famous for mint creams as well as producing liquorice Chinese Pigtails, coconut-based Toasted Haddocks and the eclectically-named Pig?s Head & Carrots and Dolly?s Musical Bottles.

Clarnico was bought out by Trebor in 1969 for ?900,000 which stopped making all of its products expect the most famous. Today Clarnico exists as CNC, a property firm.

Until it was knocked down five years ago for the Olympics, the main factory building could be seen from the Overground train near Hackney Wick

A scarce Fire Brigade medal, in choice condition

Condition: EF

Code: 26248