Typhoo

In 1863 William Sumner of Birmingham England published "A Popular Treatise on Tea" as a by- product of the first trade missions to China from London which mainly incorporated Mathew Boulton of Brum.

In 1870 Sumner founded a pharmacy/grocery business in Birmingham.

The Typhoo brand was launched in 1903 by Sumner, and was later to become one of the UK's most popular tea brands.

The original Typhoo basin is situated in Digbeth in Birmingham and the brand is now owned by Premier Foods of the USA, typhoo tea is now manufactured in Scotland.

The old works still stand including a large chimney, the site is to be redeveloped into a prestigeous canal side apartment project.

Premier Foods claim that a cup of Typhoo is drunk every 90 seconds in... that's 2.9 million cups of Typhoo made each year in the UK... or 23 million packets sold annually.