Welcome to the dedicated pages of

England's Glory

I had been incorrectly under the impression that the first known labels of England's Glory was in c1891 - however a true expert in all matters Matches & Gloucester has informed me that the first known label was in fact issued in c1872 by Arnold, Gee & Co.  Again from records I hold it would appear that Arnold (1871) and Thomas (1874), Gee & Co became part of S. J. Moreland & Sons in 1881 and it was in c1891 that the details were registered (158,168) and the England's Glory era took off.  The forerunners to the All Round The Box labels you will find on these pages were in fact single panel labels.  There are in excess of 3,000 different versions of England's Glory since the brand was first issued.  Prior to 1913, the manufacturer was S.J. Moreland & Sons of Gloucester and from 1913 Ltd was added to their name.

England's Glory is still a proprietry brand to-day but is no longer produced by Morelands whose name & factory have long since gone.

I expect over time to gradually add more labels to these pages and for this reason I have sub-divided the brand into the same alphabetical listings as other areas of this site.

Where the labels have specific titles that refer to a number of labels of the same design - eg. "Interesting Hotels" - then that title will be used to place the labels in alphabetical order.  However, many labels are just quotations or quips and consist solely of letterpress.  Where this is the case, the first word of the quotation or quip is used to place the label in the appropriate letter of the alphabet.  Where possible, labels will also be listed alphabetically with those letters - however, this cannot always be guaranteed as the method used by the stores software to locate each entry is done numerically.

Please note that the word 'The' is ignored when it is the first word of the quip, quote or title.  Therefore a quip starting with for example 'The little black jug' would be located under the letter L for Little and not the letter T for The.

On some pages you will find more than one entry of the same design.  Unlike the entries in other areas of the site where separate entries are made to reflect the difference in condition of one label to another, the separate entries in this area of the site generally reflect a design, paper or colour variation.  Where this is the case it will be clearly stated in the description panel of each label concerned.

It only leaves me now to wish you well in your endeavours of locating those labels that you want to add to your own collection - happy hunting!!