This one is for our Winchester and Solent Branch as well as another facet to July 15th, for it is also St, Swithun`s Day, and he was buried at Winchester Cathedral. And also, as it tells us on this card, "In Saxon times, Winchester was England`s Capital"
Reddings Tea had addresses at N.17 and N.19. Their header, in our original British Trade Indexes, tells us that they issued cards between 1962 and 1967, that they were of small size, 69 x 37 m/m, and that special albums were issued. However the entry for just this set is "Sm. Nd. (25)" And it is much the same in our updated British Trade Index, though it starts with the date of issue - 1966 - then continues with the "Nd. (25)"
I have seen an album for this set, it is fairly large in size, and portrait rather than landscape view. The cards fit into numbered boxes and the text is printed beside each one. There is one curious card, "New Windsor" - because I have never heard the Berkshire town called this. But I will do a spot of research and report back...
Now a lot of collectors simply call this set "Heraldry" - but if you look closely at the card the words "of Famous Places" is in white lettering in the black bar beneath.
Redding Tea issued several sets of very well produced cards between 1962 and 1967. These were
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"Warriors of the World" first series (1962) - 24 cards
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"Warriors of the World" second series (1962) - 24 cards
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"Ships of the World" (1963) - 48 cards
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"Castles of Great Britain" (1965) - 25 cards
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"Cathedrals of Great Britain" (1965) - 25 cards
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"Heraldry of Famous Places" (1966) - 25 cards
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"Strange Customs of the World" (1969) - 25 cards
I was struggling a bit with finding Reddings Tea online, but have just been informed that they were part of Williams Brothers, They were one of those much missed grocery stores with many local branches but in the early 1970s they were taken over by the much larger Booker group.
Will keep looking