Links
The following web pages have information about John Walker.
- Material previously published in Match Label News
- Preston Park Museum and Grounds (also see our dedicated page for Preston Park Museum here)
- Stockton on Tees Borough Council
- Stocktononteeside.co.uk added 5 May 2023
- History of Matches
- Wikipedia on John Walker
- 1927 article in Nature Magazine “The Centenary of the Friction Match” added 5 May 2023
- Tees Valley Museums
- Lost Teesside added 10 Sept 2024
- BBC History of the World in 100 objects
- Made up Britain
- Stockton on Tees Council and Preston Park Museum
- Stockton Archive
- This is Stockton
- The many indignities of John Walker
- Northern Echo A Striking Resemblance to John Walker added 30 Nov 2022
- The progressive rock band Gil Galad have recently announced the release of a new studio album “A Record of the Unworldly and the Strange – An Ingenious Man …” which was inspired by John Walker. More details can be found here on their web site and you can download the album here on their Bandcamp page added 30 May 2024
The following videos have information about John Walker.
- BBC Victorian Pharmacy
- True Inventor: John Walker added 12 June 2023
These are links to the Science Museum’s collection and some matchboxes which are relevant to us
- cardboard-matchbox-for-lucifer-matches-match-boxes
- matchbox-large-cardboard-match-boxes
- matchbox-containing-s-jones-lucifers-match-box
- John Walker’s Day Book image
- John Walker’s Day Book description
- John Walker biography
- firemaking
- bryant-and-may-collection-of-fire-making-appliances note the last sentence “It includes a rare example of a friction match made by the original inventor, John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, in 1826.”
These are some other useful links.