Tea Imports.

[Jim Brady]

When we have a cup of tea we never give it thought of what procedures that this little tea bag has gone through such as distance travelled etc.Liverpool's tea imports on the way up and should increase even more when Liverpool 2 opens up,this new dock should cut out Felixstowe.
Regards.
Jim.B.
Tea imports through Liverpool quadruple in five years - Liverpool Echo

[Peter F Chard]

When junior engineer on the " Somali " years ago we were homeward bound from North China and Japan but not quite fully laden. We were eventually diverted to Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) to fill up with tea. This harbour is huge and really deep water, in fact a photo exists somewhere showing the big Cunarders of the time, WW2, the battleship KG5 and two American battleships at anchor and the place still looked empty. We loaded our tea and I thought it a good idea if I bought a chest of tea for my mother as a birthday present. I was staggered to learn that there was an export tax to pay which brought the price up to the retail price in the UK, that present finally cost me the price of 100 packets of Typhoo tea, but at least my mum enjoyed her special present !! Regards Peter in NZ.

[Lou Barron]

I have four teapots but they never get used now its the bagged tea we use

[j.sabourn]

Good job the bag for the tea wasn't then invented at the Boston Tea party. People would have thought the climate change had arrived and the sea was turning to ice. JS

[john walker]

I purchased a a miniature replica of a tea chest that was supposed to contain a variety of tea called broken orange pekoe in Ceylon in the late 60's. It was a gift and memento for my mother. She never opened the chest as she thought it looked cute on the shelf in the kitchen, every time I looked at the dam thing over the years I wanted to open it to see what if anything was inside. Unfortunately when my mother died my sister decided that she liked it and now has it sitting on a shelf UNOPENED in her kitchen. When I visit her she hides it as she thinks I may take a hammer to it as the frustration of nearly fifty years of looking at it and not knowing what is inside is becoming unbearable.

[j.sabourn]

Bought one of these camels supposedly made out of leather off the bum boats in Port Said. Months later the stitching came away and on opening up was packed with blood stained bandages used for stuffing. Went over the wall straight away. Maybe better not to open. Cheers JS

[gray_marian]

#3, Hi Lou, On my 8th mug of tea this morning always from a masked teapot whether the tea is loose or bagged...

[john walker]

Bought one of these camels supposedly made out of leather off the bum boats in Port Said. Months later the stitching came away and on opening up was packed with blood stained bandages used for stuffing. Went over the wall straight away. Maybe better not to open. Cheers JS

You are probably right but not being allowed to see or know what is inside is downright cruel?

[Lou Barron]

Two of the teapots are very very old i think they could be antiques and one is one my late wife bought when we did a canal trip a number of years ago in a place called Audlem in Cheshire

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Jim.
Around 1950 we called into Ceylon to pick up chests of tea to top up our cargo, one of which somehow landed in our mess room. As we were going up the Channel there was still about a fifth still in the chest, so I put paper over it and packed my seagoing clothes in it, nailed the lid down roped it around and when we paid off in London the usual five bob to the policeman on the gate[Who said that coppers never took bribes} and my Mum had a nice cuppa for a long time.
Cheers Des

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