R&J Hill Sandpits Cigarette Cards by the Spinet House

[A Sparks]

I was just reading a blog article - London themed - about sets of cigarette cards which were supplied by the Spinet House, London and Birmingham.
Pictures here



I had a quick Google as I wondered where they were based in Birmingham but couldn't find any address - does anyone know anything about the company please - just out of interest really.

 

[Pedrocut]

Plenty of adverts in the Birmingham papers, some give just London, but no address as yet in Birmingham.

 

[pjmburns]

Henry Archer & Co is listed as a branch of R & J Hill.
The firm of R. and J. Hill Cigarettes had been established in the Hackney district of London on Shoreditch High Street since the eighteenth century. In the twentieth century the company issued four series of hand-colored, real photographic trade (advertising) cards with their product, Sunripe & Spinet Oval Cigarettes.

1915 Kelly's lists


They are still there in the 1940 Kelly's

 

[A Sparks]

Thanks @pjmburns that's great, they were near the Jewellery Quarter then.

I actually live fairly near Shoreditch and have found the address Hill's were there - I think the building was hit by bombs in WW2 so no longer there and it looks like the building in Sandpits has gone too - per Google street view.