{"id":1774,"date":"2025-11-21T04:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:04:51","slug":"on-line-exhibitor-alan-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/2025\/11\/21\/on-line-exhibitor-alan-middleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Middleton (UK)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Exhibits : Doreen Thomas – a tribute<\/a>, False John Walkers<\/a>, Jones vs Watts libel case<\/a>, Teesside Match Industry 1826 – 1985<\/a>, The Faraday Myth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I joined the BML&BS in 1969 and attend most of the London meetings. My son Mark and grandson Padraig followed suit and joined the society in 2021.<\/p>\n

My main interests these days are mainly old pre-1946 labels printed in English from all countries for sale in the UK.  Also collect worldwide themes \u2018WW1 & WW2 Propaganda\u2019 and Royalty\u2019 labels. I also think it is my duty to collect old labels and bookmatch covers from the area where I live in Teesside<\/strong><\/a>, North East England to preserve them as a record for future generations. Too much history of local businesses has been lost forever and we should do our bit to redress the balance in our match collections.<\/p>\n

I particularly enjoy researching British factories and importers 1918-1939 as the labels are still reasonably priced and, most importantly, obtainable!<\/p>\n

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Many of my articles have been published in the Society magazine<\/strong><\/a>, and more recently in 2020 have updated my book in colour of the \u2018North of England Match Co. West Hartlepool\u2019.<\/p>\n

I am part of the group of our Society collectors who researched John Walker and organised the 200th<\/sup> Anniversary Exhibition of his invention of the Friction Match held in Stockton-on-Tees in May 2026.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/strong><\/a> to return to the Exhibition Catalogue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exhibits : Doreen Thomas – a tribute, False John Walkers, Jones vs Watts libel case, Teesside Match Industry 1826 – 1985, The Faraday Myth I joined the BML&BS in 1969 and attend most of the London meetings. My son Mark and grandson Padraig followed suit and joined the society in 2021. My main interests these […] Read more<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-line-exhibitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}