Now here is an unusual set, but why it is here this week is for our Winchester and Solent Branch - who, starting in 1983, the year of their founding, held their meetings at The Peninsula, or Light Infantry, Barracks in Winchester, home of The Greenjackets.
As far as E. H. Booth & Co., Ltd. they may be described as "tea and coffee" but they had branches in Blackpool, Blackburn. Kendal, Preston, St, Annes-On-Sea and Southport, so additional research was definitely on the cards, as it were. And it turns out that whilst these cards may have been issued with just tea and/or coffee, and that tea was their start in the grocery trade, the company were actually grocers, founded in 1847 by Edwin Henry Booth, and they still endure today, as Booths.
Our British Trade Indexes tell us that they issued three sets of cards in the 1960s. Two of these, "The Island of Ceylon" and ""Ships and their Workings" were also issued by other firms, but our set is a one off, only ever issued by E. H. Booth. And it is simply described as "Sm. Nd. (25)" but being issued at that date means that I am fairly sure I will be able to discover a New Issues Report somewhere by the newsletter.