Frank Cooper's

Frank Cooper's
Three jars of Frank Cooper's products

Frank Cooper's is a UK brand of marmalades and jams owned by Premier Foods. Frank Cooper's is known primarily for its "Oxford" Marmalade and holds a Royal Warrant.[1]

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History

Oxford High Street

Francis Thomas Cooper (1811–1862) was originally a hatter and hosier with a shop at 46 High Street, Oxford.[2] He then became an agent for Ridgeway's Tea and in about 1845 converted his shop into a grocery.[2]

In 1856[2] F.T. Cooper paid £2,350 for the remainder of a forty-year lease on Nos. 83 and 84 High Street,[3] which were opposite his earlier premises. He ran 84 as a grocery shop and his family home. In 1867 his son, Frank Cooper (1844–1927) inherited the business and expanded the shop into No. 83 next door.[3][4]

In 1874 Frank Cooper's wife Sarah-Jane (1848–1932), then aged 24, made 76 pounds (34 kg) of marmalade to her own recipe.[3] The marmalade proved popular, and until 1903 was made at 83-84 High Street.[5] Frank Cooper then moved production to a new purpose-built factory at 27 Park End Street.[5] He retained the High Street premises as a shop until 1919, when he sold it to Twinings.[3]

Park End Street

The Oxford jam factory

The Park End Street factory was designed by Oxford architect Herbert Quinton and built by long-established local builder Thomas Henry Kingerlee.[5] The four-storey, 1,630 square feet (151 m2) factory had separate floors for cutting fruit and bottling the finished product, and the third floor included a separate cloakroom and staff dining room for employees.[5] Boiling the marmalade and jam was in a separate building at the back of the yard behind the main factory.[5] Quinton designed the premises in compliance with the Factory and Workshop Act 1901, and the difficulty of complying with the Act at 83-84 High Street may have prompted the building of the new factory.[5]

The factory was strategically sited close to the stations and goods yards of both the London and North Western Railway at Rewley Road and the Great Western Railway in Botley Road, making the delivery of fruit and sugar, distribution of marmalade and jam and business travel for company personnel, suppliers and trade customers as efficient as possible. Success of the business led to expansion of the factory in 1912, 1915, 1924 and 1925,[6] using land between the 1903 building and the corner of Hollybush Row.

Frank Cooper's marmalade was especially popular with dons and students in Oxford University.[1] It was taken to Antarctica on Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole.[1] A jar was found buried in the ice many years after the ill-fated expedition.[1]

Further moves and takeover

After the Second World War Frank Cooper's bought the site of the ice rink and Majestic Cinema west of the railway stations on the north side of Botley Road.[6] A new factory was built on the site and the company moved production there from Park End Street.

Brown and Poulson Ltd. bought Frank Cooper's in 1964 and moved production away from Oxford in 1967,[6] but retained the "Oxford" name for the marmalade.

In 1985 Frank Cooper's again leased 84 High Street, running it as a museum and shop.[3] Production was not returned to Oxford and within a few years Frank Cooper's gave up the shop for a second time.[3] Since 2001, 84 High Street has been marked by an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque commemorating Sarah Cooper's inception of Oxford Marmalade.[7]

The former factory at 27 Park End Street (now part of Frideswide Square) survives and is now a listed building.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Frank Cooper Marmalade & Jam". English Tea Store. Online Stores Inc.. 2004-2009. http://www.englishteastore.com/frcoma.html. Retrieved 7 March 2011. 
  2. ^ a b c Jenkins, Stephanie. "The High, Oxford: No 46". Oxford History. Headington, Oxford. http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/high/tour/north/046_047.htm. Retrieved 7 March 2011. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f Jenkins, Stephanie. "The High, Oxford: No 84". Oxford History. Headington, Oxford. http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/high/tour/south/084.htm. Retrieved 18 March 2009. 
  4. ^ "Frank Cooper". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101038994/. Retrieved 7 March 2011.  (subscription required)
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Woolley, 2010, page 91
  6. ^ a b c Woolley, 2010, page 94
  7. ^ "Sarah-Jane Cooper (1848–1932)". Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board. 15 September 2010. http://www.oxfordshireblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/cooper.html. Retrieved 7 March 2011. 

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