On Saturday 24th April 2021 The Matchgirls Memorial will be marking 150 years since the Match Tax Protest of 1871. Bryant and May workers along with the owners of the factory in Fairfield Road Bow,
Read more![On the side of the gatehouse in Fairfield Road there is the inscription EX LUCE LUCELLUM. It means "out of light a little profit" which was to be the motto on the tax stamp stuck to each box of matches.](https://www.ourbow.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/EX-LUCE-LUCELLUM-3-350x280.jpg)
On Saturday 24th April 2021 The Matchgirls Memorial will be marking 150 years since the Match Tax Protest of 1871. Bryant and May workers along with the owners of the factory in Fairfield Road Bow,
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