3-021-755 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Whitsuntide festival of workpeople at Norwich, 1869. 'One of the many evidences which Messrs. J. and J. Colman [mustard manufacturers] give of their careful endeavour to foster friendly relations between themselves and their servants is the fact that they are accustomed, from time to time, to gather together, on the beautiful grounds adjacent to the Carrow Works, the [1100] workpeople and their families, who are feasted to their hearts' content and enjoy themselves in various games and sports - the principals of the firm...mixing freely amongst the merry throng. Our Illustration depicts one of these happy gatherings...when the guests numbered 3000...the scene was a very merry one as the young people danced and gambolled to the music of the band (which is composed entirely of Carrow workmen...). Such occasional festive meetings tend, doubtless, to establish very agreeable relations between men and masters...Messrs. Colman...show - and we are glad to believe that this feeling is gradually developing itself amongst large employers of labour - that they esteem it a duty as far as possible to promote the comfort and well-being of their servants...Altogether, Messrs. Colman have deservedly won the reputation of being very good masters'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.