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Robertsons Jams
James Robertson's life was fated to be devoted to the
making of the world's finest preserves, as the story of the birth of Robertson's
(as we know it today) testifies. Little did James know, on that day in 1859 as
he stood outside his shop in Causeyside Street in Paisley Scotland, what fate
had in store for him. Despite being shrewd in business, James was a kind,
charitable man and one day he took pity on a struggling salesman and agreed to
buy a barrel of bitter oranges from him. James had known only too well that the
oranges would not sell well, but what he did not realize was that his act of
kindness would change his whole life. They say that behind every great man is a
great woman and this could not have been more true than in the case of James
Robertson and his wife Marion. Rather than see the offending oranges go to waste
she hit upon the idea of making them into marmalade to be sold on the shop. The
rest, as they say, is history.
