Althams Travel Service That Counts - SUMMER
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destinations in Spoin, the Canaries, Greece and turkey, with departures from 1 ] UK airports
FORTNIGHT OF SATURDAY NIGHTS! For Summer '95, Club 1 8-30 has 1 3 top
make the m o s t OF YOUR SUMMER
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THE old Althams store on the corner of Howe Street, Burnley
Thomson
Thomson Your Operators
are pleased to be a s so c ia ted with ABthams
and we congratulate
them on their centenary _______anniversary
ALTHAMS Travel Bureau in Nelson in the late 1950s
Worldwide Holidays with Free Domestic
Connections from Manchester
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^ titan HiTours would like extend their congratulations to Althams Travel Services
Limited in their centenary year and wish them continued success for the future. ^
All tours departing from BURNLEY NELSON, COLNE,
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•ind 1100 points throughout the UK. Call into your nearest
Alt hams Travel oltice for details Uiilfl a brochure.
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THE enterprise and business flair of Abraham Altham gave his successors a good foundation on which to further build travel success.
Mr Altham left three sons and two
daughters. The eldest son, John (1864-1898),
became a clergyman, the others, Peter (1867-1934), and Jesse
(1869-1929) went into the family business. They were two of the original board members, which also included William Holmes, and were also founders and shareholders in the Heasandford Mill Co., of Burnley. Built in 1904, it was
the first cotton mill in town in which the looms were powered by electricty and part of it is now the head office of Althams in
Netherwood Road. The business
became a limited company in 1894 with James Holgate, brother-in-law of Mr
Altham, the first chairman, who died in 1925 aged 81. Expansion continued
during his years with the company, the number of stores increasing to 80 and the further
development of the travel business. Tea was as popular as ever with 680 tons sold in the peak year of 1915. Althams operated
two self-contained travel bureaux during
the inter-war period and 52 shops sold railway tickets. Holiday horizons
extended during this period with trips abroad, particularly
those to France and
Belgium, attracting a growing number of tourists.
A cruise to Scandanavia or the
Mediterranean cost as little as £1 a day and
War II air travel began to contribute substantially to
Althams turnover as the rail system declined.
along with other leading travel companies, formed the Association of British Travel Agents. The big boom in
In 1950, Althams,
1841- Abraham A l th am b >rn
1864 * O p en s first of 64
g r o c e r s s imp s 1874 * First organised
t r ip to Blackpool bv A i th am s
1875 - 7.IHHI customers
ta k e an A Ilhams e x cu r s io n 1877 - Althams be com es full-scale tra v e l agent 1885 - A b ra h am A l th am dies 1894 - Althams b e com es a limited com p a n s 1 9 5 5 -AH I A formed w ith help from Althams 960 - Room in package
h o l id ay s a b ro a d 1968 - Last grocer)
sh o p d o s e d 1970 - Name changed
to A l th am s T r a u ’l S e rv ic e s Ltd 1994 - K x p a n d ed to 51
o u t le ts a n d celebrates c e n te n a r s
de-luxe ones were about £3 a day. However, after World
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