Cummings family wedding invitation

Category

Library Item

Item no

37403

Title

Cummings family wedding invitation

Description

Mr & Mrs Andrew Cummings request the pleasure of the company of.... at the marriage of their daughter Peggy. with Mr. Stewart E. Woolgar, in Dalmeny Street U.F. Church, Leith... and afterwards at the North British Station Hotel.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1929

Size

15.4 x 11.5 cm

Type

Document

Location

Edinburgh City Archives

This item belongs to the Wm Cummings & Son (and Woolgar) family business collection.

William Cummings founded his box making business of Murano Place, Leith Walk in 1876. His son Andrew took responsibility for the business on his father's death in 1892 and changed the name to Wm. Cummings & Son Ltd in 1900. By 1907 the company employed 150 people across the different departments of sawmill, home and export case, confectionery box, tin lining, fancy paper box, leatherboard box and turning department. Under Andrew Cummings direction the firm continued, as his father had, to apply mechanical innovations and labour saving devices. The business was still in operation into the late 1960s.

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