Sissons' Paints was part of Hull. For over 150 years, the Sissons
family, through six generations, treated their ever-expanding
company workforce as an extension of that family. Loyalty and long
service was a habit established in the nineteenth century which
continued to the last days in the boardroom and on the factory
floor. The story brings together trade developments, company
history, scientific discovery, times of relaxation, family
celebrations and tragedies. The success of the Sissons lay in the
strength of their marketing of superior products, notably
Hall'sDistemper (the Men and plank logo), in Britain and across the
world, with presences in Argentina, Canada, India, the United
States and Australia before the First World War. The ultimate
demise of the company was brought about by changes in their
customer base, which went unnoticed for too long. Hundreds of
illustrations - of staff at work and at play, of the workplace, of
the family, of advertisements and marketing, of company documents,
of the consequences of war - complement the text. Brought together
by Anthony Sissons, with material from the archive of his father,
Richard Chamberlin Sissons, and edited by his daughter, Christiana
Sissons Moore, this is a family history with a difference - the
family is Hull.
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