J. Tidmarsh & Co. was a soap and candle manufacturer in the early days of Adelaide, in the colony of South Australia.
John Francis Tidmarsh (17 January 1824 – 11 November 1906) was born in Cork, Ireland, where he was educated at Dr. Radcliffe's school.
The process of boiling down fat and tallow produces some particularly foul odours, and Tidmarsh was diligent in reducing this nuisance to a minimum by ventilating the vats through charcoal or quicklime.
The lees were transported away from the factory in a large airtight container on wheels, to be dumped at some remote location.
[9] Their only surviving son, Francis Frederick Tidmarsh, about whom little is recorded but was factory foreman after Burford's took over,[10] founded his own soap and candle manufactory in Broken Hill some time around 1888.
Burford's, owners of the Adelaide Tidmarsh factory, promptly issued a statement denying any connection between the two companies.