Fowler Ltd. or Fowler Limited was a sugar refining company headquartered in
Blackwall, London
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, England.
Early history
Fowler Bros & Co. was founded by Alexander and James Fowler of
Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1871. The merchants turned up in
Hornsey
Hornsey () is a district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Haringey. It is an inner-suburban, for the most part residential, area centred north of Charing Cross. It adjoins green spaces Queen's Wood to the west and Alexand ...
in the early 1880s.
They started out making liquid invert sugars for breweries in London.
In 1881, the Fowler's established a small cane-sugar refinery based at
Bow Creek on the banks of the
River Lea
The River Lea ( ) is in the East of England and Greater London. It originates in Bedfordshire, in the Chiltern Hills, and flows southeast through Hertfordshire, along the Essex border and into Greater London, to meet the River Thames at Bow Cr ...
in Blackwall. The treacle and syrup refiners Fowler Bros. & Ogilvie were listed in a trade journal as of 1883 as being at Orchard Place, Blackwall, 24 Mark Lane.
In 1902, Alexander Fowler formed Fowler Ltd. Around this time, a second refinery was built at No. 31 Orchard Place, a newly acquired, larger dock on the other side of the street, quickly replacing the earlier facility. Fowlers remained at the location until the 1970s.
In the 1950s, the company published recipe booklets with advice on the best uses for their products.
In 1976, Fowler Ltd. was bought out by Manbré and Garton, another sugar refining business.
Tate & Lyle
Tate & Lyle Public Limited Company is a British-headquartered, global supplier of food and beverage products to food and industrial markets. It was originally a sugar refining business, but from the 1970s, it began to diversify, eventually dive ...
took over production of both Fowlers and Mabré and Garton in 1977.
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Products
*Fowler's West India Treacle
*Fowler's Pure Cane Golden Syrup
See also
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Treacle
Treacle () is any uncrystallised syrup made during the refining of sugar.Oxford Dictionary The most common forms of treacle are golden syrup, a pale variety, and black treacle, a darker variety similar to molasses. Black treacle has a distinctiv ...
References
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Sugar refineries
Sugar companies
Food manufacturers based in London
Food manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Sugar industry of the United Kingdom
Tate & Lyle