The London General Mourning Warehouse

The London General Mourning Warehouse was a mourning warehouse on Regent Street. It was established by William Chickall Jay in 1841 and so it was commonly known as Jay's. It sold all types of goods needed for funerals and the elaborate mourning of the Victorian era.[1][2][3][4][5]

  • Full page advertisement in The Illustrated London News, 8 September 1888
  • Around 1893
  • The 1922 plan for the reconstruction of Jay's by Sir Henry Tanner which was completed in 1925.

Jay's is on the left of this view of Regent Street around 1850

References
  1. "Jay's Mourning Warehouse", Illustrated London, The London Printing and Engraving Co., pp. 70–71, 1893
  2. D. Tulla Lightfoot (2019), The Culture and Art of Death in 19th Century America, McFarland, pp. 93–94, ISBN 9781476635187
  3. Mark Matlach (2019), W. C. Jay & Co. / Jay’s Ltd.
  4. Lou Taylor (2009), Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History, Routledge, pp. 157–168, ISBN 9781135228439
  5. Claire Wood (2015), Dickens and the Business of Death, Cambridge University Press, p. 30–33, ISBN 9781107098633, ISSN 1747-3136
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