The_London_General_Mourning_Warehouse

The London General Mourning Warehouse

The London General Mourning Warehouse

Merchant of funeral related products

The London General Mourning Warehouse was a mourning warehouse on Regent Street. It was established by William Chickall Jay in 1841 and so it was commonly known as Jay's. It sold all types of goods needed for funerals and the elaborate mourning of the Victorian era.[1][2][3][4][5]

Jay's is on the left of this view of Regent Street around 1850

References

  1. [1]
    "Jay's Mourning Warehouse", Illustrated London, The London Printing and Engraving Co., pp. 70–71, 1893
  2. [2]
    D. Tulla Lightfoot (2019), The Culture and Art of Death in 19th Century America, McFarland, pp. 93–94, ISBN 978-1476635187
  3. [3]
    Mark Matlach (2019), W. C. Jay & Co. / Jay's Ltd.
  4. [4]
    Lou Taylor (2009), Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History, Routledge, pp. 157–168, ISBN 978-1135228439
  5. [5]
    Claire Wood (2015), "Dickens and the Business of Death", Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Cambridge University Press: 30–33, ISBN 9781107098633, ISSN 1747-3136

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