The Pure Oyster Co Ltd

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The Pure Oyster Company History

The Pure Oyster Company is an old established family business, founded in London by Janet Tabor and her two sons, Joe and Harold, on the 25th September 1907.

The company was set up by the directors of George Tabor Limited to promote the sale of ‘purified’ oysters through their newly developed purification tank system, thereby helping to halt the rapid decline in oyster consumption that had occurred over the preceding years; people had become ill, sometimes fatally, by consuming oysters harvested from water that had become polluted. A “Certificate of Purity” could accompany all oysters dispatched by The Pure Oyster Company.

The company is an associate company of George Tabor Limited, which was established by Yeoman Tabor at Brightlingsea, Essex, in 1520.

Today there are six Tabors in the company: Anthony (managing director), Chris, Stuart, Nick, Tom and David. As wholesale Fish merchants The Pure Oyster Company now sells not only oysters but all varieties of live, fresh and frozen seafood, from their purpose built premises at Pease Pottage in West Sussex.